I'm quite fond of the hooks. I just found out about them this morning! I very much look forward to seeing more hooks beingn developped.

A chat would be nice. I tried parachat last year and for some reason, I was no satisfied. A chat that would be positioned in the right margin of the forum front page would be awesome.

I am sleep deprived and having to muck around with the CSS wasn't a cakewalk, but do-able. The forum looks good, and I'm thrilled with the prospects of keeping up with SMF with the hooks.

I look forward to being able to embed YouTube in posts, like SMF!

Glad to hear. :)

For chat, you could try AddonChat, or the IP.Shoutbox community project. :)