A suggestion for your chat feature

Maybe you could add some kind of side panel to your forum so people can see whose in chat and it says 'enter' chat or something along those lines...?

Might make the chat feature more active and popular, some people have like little chats on there blog to the side, or something along those lines

I'm thinking sort of along the lines of Chatango, where as soon as we get on we can see whose in chat and possible whats going on, it could be on the main page maybe and be above the forums...?

Dunno just a thought

eh... not appealing to anyone? I see so many people online and think how cool it could be if a chat box was there automatically, it'd make the community so connected