we should have a chat form on here though. it makes more easier to chat and make friends much more quickly
I don't know about here as I don't work on the backend of the site, but I tried this idea on my own site once upon a time. A real time chat on a site is, like, mega resource intensive for sure. My site just couldn't keep up and it would crash all the time and it didn't even have a fraction of traffic that this site does.