Please feel free to use it at any time - we plan to have competitions and events which centre around the chat room. Details of which will be announced in due course.
Please reply here if you have any problems accessing the chat. I've already had reports of one member who shall remain nameless *cough* chad *cough* who is having problems - it appears because of the ® symbol at the end of his name. I will confirm this after some testing with this disgruntled user.
I get a "Socket Server Connection Failed" error. Does this make a direct connection from the client machine to the host server, on a port other than 80? I suspect it is my firewall at work that is blocking it.
Yep runs on a different port to port 80 - it is definately the firewall as I have tested it with the port blocked and it does not allow me access. I unblock the port and it works fine.