<p>Sorry guys...I haven't been there to hold down the fort lately. </p>
<p>LL, you should just need to be signed in to the forums, and click the Chat tab and you should be good to go. If stuff looks strange at first, give it some time to download the various components.</p>
I'll submit a hypothesis that the dry spell ended for chat's primary ring-leaders and today they have other <strike>people</strike>things to do in their evenings.