we may be able to throw this into the wishful thinking bin, but how bout some type of chatroom "on top of" the forum for the users that are online

we are kicking around the idea, but the issue with that means less over all content on the site.

chat rooms take 2 minutes read.. forums allow you to dig deeper, spend more time and look around.

in the future maybe.. When we upgrade the server, I might setup a java based IRC chat client.

that would work, and i unerstand wat u mean about less actally comments and stuff. cuz win forums disappear dumb questions get asked over and over and over again.

pretty much.