Does anyone use the chat room, and if so, how does one do it in a way that doesn't make you lose your mind?
The current chat room is incredibly janky, unreliable, and Flash-based so not usable on most people's cell phones. As a result, it typically has very little traffic. We will be switching to a completely different chat system when we move to the new platform that is mobile-compatible. That should be some time in the 2nd quarter of this year.
A.k.a a load of steaming shite. But I guess your polite and diplomatic way of describing it works too.