Kris you might think of "chat" as a "live" version of the boards here.

There will be several people logged onto chat at a time (or 1 person waiting for someone else to show up) You type your message in a box at the bottom of the screen. When you hit "enter" your message gets posted to the chat and everyone currently logged on sees it. Then they type replies, so a conversation goes back and forth.

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