There are N chat options out there, and of course there's no need or
way to stop people from using them. If 1 is blessed as 'best', it
excludes others who prefer a different one. Tomorrow there will be a
New Best Chat App. If a bunch are blessed, the conversation fractures.
There's also a
Would we be interested in having a public chat room?
Gitter http://gitter.im offers them for free for open source projects.
It's like web-based IRC.
Check out the Docker room for example:
https://gitter.im/docker/docker
And if people prefer to use actual IRC, Gitter offers a bridge for that
