I'm for the forum only. There's no need for any shoutbox or IRC as long as your forum is living. I had a site before and I used to have a shoutbox. Shoutboxes come before forums. If you have a forum there's no need for it. IRC sucks. A sites using that was a good one but yet again everyone went to the forums of that site. Koby, I have a suggestion for you, never make shoutboxes again.