Thats kinda what i mean....Have the capabilities of instant msging as well within the Chat room access. click a specific person that you wanna msg, if not, an opened chat.
I like the idea of an instant messaging system, The chat is temporarily offline, but I'll probably incorporate an instant messaging system when I redo the site.
its called irc. look into it they make java clients so it could be used on the website and nobody would have to download a client and you could run your own server so everyone could have there nicknames from the forums.
Awesome!! Because when you leave people a PM or Msged on there Thread, they may not get a reply right away, so if your online, boom you can send and recieve Instant messages. nothing like MSN or AIM, just Site related type thing...