Hey, (i think i'm not the first one, but) IMO the chat system RAF currently uses is kinda dead, as it requires another login etc it isn't been a lot and there is barley anybody on.
So, my suggestion is a chat software that eases the chatting, hooking up with SMF and maybe even IRC?
Well, I know this chat system (ok, i am one of the developers of it, but not since too long, only since like 8 months now....) that hooks up to SMF, it has been developed for SMF 1.1.18 and already been portet over to MyBB (by me) so i guess making it for SMF2 wouldn't bee too hard
It has tons of features, like multiple channels, hooking up to real irc, topics, operators, userlist, tab-completion of usernames, a ton of options etc.
On the 'main forum' of it the chat is embeded on every site on the top which is pretty useful
so yeah, it looks like this:
also, it is open source
https://github.com/Sorunome/OmnomIRC2I would also volunteer my server to host it
Just a suggestion......