What bit of software is being used ?
I'm generally around and online in my workshop 19:00ish to 22:00 GMT.
Which is 1100 west coast time and 1400 easy coast USA.
(That's a genuine typo, but appropriate 1900gmt is about 0600 the next day in Australia and 2000 mainland Europe.
During the great spamwars having everybody spread out around the clock was extremely useful.
Not so great for anything else
So is there a link that's always live that people can drop in and out of ?
And would it be useful to set up a standard chat room ?
We've got a decent one on smoked-meat.com that I believe is entirely independent of the forum, I can get the details from Ken.