Its more of an necessary evil than something useful for me :/
Theres not really a need for a forum chat when you have irc or instant messengers with group chat option

By the way.. Why dont we hold some weekly group meeting in a chat or somewhere ? I'm sure thats a good way to meet the ppl again, who gave up/never started playing ut2k4 and for others to get to know you outside of a game :O
The hell.. I'm sure I voted boring and not cool :l