Ahoy there Black Scot,
Actually the chat room gets a lot of use, especially on Sunday during chat time.
As fer yar problems, what version web browser do ya be using?
I’ve had similar problems meself, sometimes it would just crash me computer as soon as I attempted to enter chat or it would wait a while until I was well involved in conversation before crashing me out completely. I tried updating me browser, updating me java application plug-in, but me problem just wouldn’t go away.
Or that is until I started using Microsoft Internet Exloiter to do me chatting. I mainly use Mozilla fer most of me web browsing and email tasks, but Exploiter seems to work best for this boards chat application.