this suggestion is related to the Simutrans Chat form post in Information and announcements section http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=1369.0
I have a suggestion for the website where you stated to point people to http://chat.simutrans.com/ if they wanted to connect to chat room with out a irc channel why not still do that but but use use mibbit http://www.mibbit.com/
http://wiki.mibbit.com/index.php/Main_Page
http://www.reddit.com/r/simutrans/comments/ipibn/simutrans_website_suggestion/