Agree with everything there, except maybe dicussions. 90% of the time it was filled with bible thumpers copy pasting random quotes from the bible, general obscenity and racism spam or just straight out ridiculous discussions worthy to be in the darkest parts of 4chan or reddit. This however can be resolved by allowing contributing, respected volunteers of the community to moderate these chat rooms when it gets too inappropriate.
But it was good for finding other players, whispering them, asking them to join a game and later befriending them. The current chat room interface as it is is clunky and just annoying. I'm sure they had the best of intentions but the guys at relic just made some terrible terrible decisions in regards to how the social/multi-player features were going to play out. Removal of lobbies, removal of chat rooms, removal of a skill/rank/league system. What were they thinking?
Yup, agree. I could only have discussion with small group in otherwise empty chat room.
GR chatroom is something I avoided and don't miss at all.