Big ass motherfucking link to the forum on the portal somewhere, or some more obvious way of getting to it from the portal page.
The link to the forum at the moment is hidden behind a lot of crap in the menu (I know I wrote it D:, we all make mistakes, etc). With the addition of the chat bar it further hides it. A more directly and obvious link for people visiting the site can only be a good thing.
/randomthoughts