Friendliness has always been what ReefBase is and was about. That’s why I created it. It was because on an old forum that doesn’t exist now there was always arguments and bitterness. It took the fun out of wanting to talk about our hobby. That’s why we’ve the silly logo and colours, background and blue emojis. If you’re using Tapatalk you might not have seen much of that.
It has gotten quieter here in the last few years as more and more people head towards Facebook groups instead. A chat room wouldn’t be any faster than posting a thread, and the only other thing I can think of similar would be a ReefBase WhatsApp group, but I think that’d then just be the death of the forum completely.