The IRC is where the live chat will be from now on. If you have never used IRC before, don't worry, wee'll help! Until there is an online page to chat on, get one of these clients:

For firefox users: Chatzilla: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/16
For windows users: mIRC: http://www.mirc.com/get.html
For mac users: Irssi (get darwinports, install that, then go to a terminal and type 'sudo port install irssi'): http://darwinports.com/download/ (do not get ircle, it sucks)
For linux users: Irssi (use any package manager, or just try apt-get install irssi in a terminal)

For any help post here or in the shoutbox (which is really the only justified reason to post in the shoutbox now)