OK, due to popular demand and threats from Rankin, I've reinstalled the Chat feature. I honestly thought it was a useless component to the site, cause I thought nobody used it. Apparently I was wrong
There's a direct link to the Chatroom in the upper right corner of the site, on the section that has the links to Blogs, Gallery, Help, Search, etc. There should be a new option there called Chat. Also, at the very bottom of the forum index in the Statistics there is a section that tells you who is in chat at the moment. From here, you can also launch the chat via a new window or a popup. The only other thing I have to figure out is how to get those Chat statistics to show up on the main portal page as well.
You do NOT need to re-register to use the chat. It is tied in directly to your forum account, so just log in with your forum username and password. Happy chatting!

You do NOT need to re-register to use the chat. It is tied in directly to your forum account, so just log in with your forum username and password. Happy chatting!