Our only wish is to stay close to the community, so we added one more option for 'real time discussions' to our site services - join our newly created channel #fsnet at irc.freenode.net
For those of you not familiar with IRC, here are some nice & popular IRC clients:
It's been a long time since I've used irc. I just reviewed a few different clients for windows so that I could check out e107 on irc. I ended up going with IceChat. Seems pretty good.
I just needed to go to options and stop some events from being annoying and posting in the channel. I politely and indirectly told to do that :).