I think it would be a great idea to have a "Shoutbox" on the forum. So that people can chat with eachother on the forums without having to use Pm, irc, threads. On a couple of forums i was member with they had shoutboxes. And one of them actually made it so that the shoutbox was a firefox extension. So that people aren't forced to use it. If it is supported i could also give assistance with the HTML and CSS coding.
Very basic but it did the job.
Thanks for reading and giving opinions.