The chat was never really reliable...I remember getting booted for no reason. I don't know if it was because of the Java it used or what.

Anyway, the features pretty much sucked so all convos were moved to AIM chat. There's a thread somewhere in CC that got bumped whenever someone started a GC chat. It's been quite a while since they had them, though.

Hopefully with the new upgrades coming soon everything will get improved.