[brityank]

"You guys
REALLY need to rename
the General Interest forum

the   Chat   forum."

DITTO !!

[Admin Moderator]

Let's ask the guy who has the keys to the car. John, please consider renaming the 'General Interest' forum to 'Chat'.

[wizzler]

While I agree that for clarity's sake that stuff should be referred to by either one name or the other, I don't think the word "chat" is the way to go. In the online world, "chat" has a very specific definition and uses a specific type of technology. A "chat room," which involves real-time discussion, is quite different from a "forum."

In other words, nobody should ever have started using "chat" to describe the General Interest forum in the first place. THAT'S the main reason people are so confused when they hear references to "chat" at Free Republic -- they assume it means what it means everywhere else, but then they can't find any such thing here.