[Deceptor]

Seems like everytime I view the chat, all I see are idle members, no matter what time of the day. Is the chat that dead?

I had a little idea to maybe make it more noticeable people are in chat, in short just change "Chat" to "Chat (X)", X being the number of people in the chat, and only show the X if there is atleast one person.

Obviously from the vB end you won't be able to tell who is on though IRC (unless you made a plugin on that side I guess), but you could easily check user sessions to see who's on that page.

The flaw with that ofcourse is the session will expire, but that could be overcome, a little simple bit of javascript which records mouse moments and times and fires a session update through AJAX every x minutes if mouse movements are not idle.

Ofcourse, If I've just been very unlucky and the chat is not dead, feel free to ignore all that