First I'd like to say welcome to the CS forums. As for the chat feature, it's called email, flowers and the forums. At the moment we're working on getting one feature back and then maybe we can talk them into a chat feature........shhhhh, we don't want them to know just yet :D
It would be awesome to chat with some of these people as a group in realtime. Yahoo and MSN are nice for one-on-one chit chat, but a chat feature would be the perfect add-on to the site. If they need moderators for the chat I'm sure a few people on here would do it. I would.
I asked the very same question yesterday for the same reason and i am sorry but it seems not......pity really as everything else seems to be well catered for.
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Thanks.