I cant see whos online, access the chat, or see anything in that general area. Would the mods/admins care to elaborate? Or at least pubiclicly confess that one of their number fucked up?

If I knew anything, I'd be more than happy to tell you about it. I assume it's a malfunction of the new layout and is being worked on, but all I know is that it is gone.

It isnt gone, its just not there anymore do to the Christmas Layout, i find this a good feature, gives people privacy so some of us arent bombardded with PMs.

Also, way to call the mods fuck ups, im sure thatll warm their holiday heavy hearts.

Not exactly sure why, but the page that can be edited to show this just deactivated. Even when I reset it to its original state and edit on top, nothing returns.

Nevertheless, this isn't much of a problem, because whoevever is online and the forum stats can still be seen through the widgets in the forum Portal page (where a new login box has also been added).

I'm actually happen with this defect, because it fixed the forum problem happening for guests *shrug* Not sure how, but what's done is done and all is well.