I find it amazing how many people LIKED the general chat. I was a member LONG before the decided to introduce it. One thing I hated, and maybe I only noticed cause I knew what it was like WITHOUT it, was that the general and private being in the same window, caused the private messages to be scrolled out of frame before being read. So, while the rest of you want it back, I want it to stay dead until the dev team figures out how to do windowed chat (think yahoo, msn, aol, whatever with a SEPARATE box for each person). IF they ever develop multi-box/windowed PRIVATE chat, then sure, bring back public/general