We used to have members join an IRC channel on quake net a while back before the forums restarted with the following information:
Server: irc.quakenet.org
Channel: #wiredforwar
If you don't want to download an IRC client there is a browser client here.
If you're new to IRC, with any client you should be able to join that server and type "/join #wiredforwar" after you connect to the server.
Maybe later @Hayden could host one on this site instead of quakenet?