So what is this thread about? Well, look at the subject :)
I wanted to start a thread where people can provide ideas and wishes for a (semi?) official VGC chat to give people on here the opportunity to communicate with each other via a different channel.
Why a chat? I will give you my opinion on this:
In chats you don't really have a topic, instead of forums. But people want to talk to each other as forums show but the "conditions" of a forum often contradict to what a forum usually is, a place to communicate. Thing is, if you are free to discuss in forums where you have certain threads with a certain topic, just babbling will get a discussion immediately off-topic (not that this still does happen, of course).
A chat on the other hand doesn't really have a topic - its main meaning is that people talk to each other _without_ a certain topic. You are free to join a discussion or start a new one without making threads, you are also free to just read what people think about certain topics but in general as you are not topic-lead you talk to people in a different way and you get the opportunity to get to know people better.
The (a) chat room does not make the forum obsolete in any way - its intention is just to give people the opportunity to get in contact on a different channel in a different way. It is not a substitution for anything existing on the website.
So what do you think about it? Who wants to have a chat
And more specifically: Do you have any ideas?
Tachikoma said she would provide an IRC channel for the userbase but currently only if she gets promoted to a mod.
Conegamer hinted at existing solutions (AIM chat?) but I never heard of them and I am almost 3 years on this forum 
