A new shoutbox has been installed, this is a good shoutbox, it also includes a link to "chat" (seen between "Members" and "Logout") We can use it for "WaR Chats" and what not, you can also make private rooms,etc, check it out. Also whatever is used in the public main room of chat is synced with the shoutbox.
Also color variants are back, this time it saves your preference, the only bug is that you have to be on the index for it to save it.