One of the forum admins even set up a discord server for forum members but a few years down the road, there is barely any activity there with just a few members texting once in a while, yet this is a generation where people tend to prefer instant messaging apps
That tells you one of two things about the audience in this forum, and a shoutbox/chatbox/trollbox? I don't think it's necessary, in my opinion.
Shoutbox > messenger apps imo. If messenger apps have low activity that does not imply, shoutbox will have same.
People who are arguing about spam links, links should not be allowed and access should be restricted to certain ranks as mentioned by Beparanf before.
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Here the entire place is to vent and not another shoutbox is needed for that.
Lol