Hi,
sorry for my late reply. But I had so much work due to the v4.0 release.
To be honest I've never made a IRC chat in the 10 years since I use the internet. I usually always preferred forums. But I know that IRC is very popular under many users.
The Cheetah3d user community or better the active forum users community isn't very big yet. The problem with an IRC channel I see is that the small user community gets split up.
On the other side I already have enough work with maintaining/reading/anwsering the forum and developing/supporting Cheetah3D. So that I wouldn't find to much time to spend in the IRC too.
That's why I don't want to support an IRC officially yet since it would automatically require that I visit it from time to time.
At the moment I just prefer to focus on the forum. Sorry. Maybe later.
Bye,
Martin