Another Forum I used to frequent had a section called "off topic". In my opinion it was abused some, but it was a neat place to post what was going on in your life or questions you had not related directly to the site. Right now people typically do this in the General area of your site.
Do you think this forum could benefit from a topic like that?
Also on my Family Forum I have a chat option that people can access at the bottom of the page, would you be interested in something like that too?
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