I think the community's long overdue for having a Discord server.
https://discordapp.com/invite/GqJBjX9Discord is a very popular chat service, and one that many sites and other communities commonly run now. I'm guessing many of you are already familiar with it, but just in case-- advantages include that it automatically archives both public chats and private messages so you don't need to be online, and that there can be a variety of channels about related topics in one place.