To be honest, I can understand why taking away the chat feature is a benefit. The majority of fights between members, going as far back as the tension between nl and Lord N (HaoSenVanForest and Victorious V) has been caused within the chat room, if not always in it.
Furthermore, people tend to get into a state where if some crap goes down in the chatroom, threads such as this and status need to be made outside of the section they occurred.
It should be noted to all that whatever happens in the chat, isn't necessarily something that needs to be brought out on the forum. Given the nature that most of these out of chat events have been terrible of late (and by that, I mean within a year), it's just not wanted.
You want to see change regarding the chat room. How about this? Stop bringing it out of the chat like this.
So just to re-iterate. And with the big letters because I really am sick of this topic being constantly being brought up (that being chat out of chat).
THE CHAT IS A PRIVILEGE, NOT A VITAL FEATURE! TREAT IT PROPERLY AND PERHAPS IT WON'T DISAPPEAR ON YOU!