In the past, we used the chat room here on the site if we needed real-time communication, such as when troubleshooting connection problems at game time.  I noticed recently that the chat room was offline, most likely as a result of my web host deciding that chat rooms are too server intensive.  I've gone ahead and embedded a Meebo chat room here on the site.  You can reach it by going to User Menu > Chat room in the menu bar, above.  The difference between this and the shoutbox in the sidebar is that the chat room is real time, while the shoutbox is not (i.e. the shoutbox will only show updated messages when the page refreshes, while the chat room doesn't require a page refresh). {mos_fb_discuss:14}