Also, at the bottom of the main forum page, in the section 'Who is online', where it lists the users that are currently browsing the forums, any that are in the chat room are shown with an asterisk after their name.
Once you're in the chat, you can hang in the 'lobby' area (the default room), or go to a different room by using the 'channel' pulldown. Each forum here has its own room. Soon I will prune that list to remove some of the chat channels for games that are dead or complete, or for other rooms that don't need to be there.
I envision this being used for
- Being social and getting to know each other
- Playing some real-time parts of your PbP game. Maybe groups can organize times when everyone in a campaign can get in the chat for a couple hours on a weekend.
- Discussion with your DM about anything: char creation, etc.
- ???