A reason the Chat has been under populated for a while is possibly due to some people who treated it as their own territory and actually warned others off, forbidding them use of it. People didn't want to sit through the diatribes that were being publicly voiced and so got out of the habit of frequenting the Chat. This problem has hopefully been resolved.

I check in there often still, there are times when there are people there, but not always when I'm at a computer I can log onto the chat with, so I cannot enter and chat.

LTS