I know it's been a long time using the IRC room
ripper3785 made, but I did want to make a suggestion should the FT developers ever become interested in making a live chat available again. Another website I use utilizes
BlaB! AX Pro for their online chat. It has multiple rooms and apparently it can integrate with vBulletin (among others). It would bring a fun, "new" (not so new?) aspect to FT and with so many people grounded these days I think it would be popular. The software is only $75 USD from what I understand.
-J.