Oh I definitley understand that, but from what I got, and I could be wrong, is that Salathe closed the form down right? Can people still chat or not? If not, then what difference is it between closing it down with no other place to go, or creating a new place where owners and the people who run the show have passion?

From what I read, Salathe closed it down at some point and the owner is so far removed from the site that he probably doesn't even know that it was down unless someone emailed him...