The old OddChat is still around ... it can be found at
http://www.oddworld.au.com/oddchat_old if you really want to keep using it. But it will no longer be administrated.
*sigh* Also
someone seems to be posting a rumor that the new OddChat will have multiple chat rooms, etc. Firstly this has not even been decided on yet, and secondly I really don't see a need to have multiple chat rooms for something like OddChat which is not a hugely visited chat site. Yes, the features are there to do so, but I find it highly unlikely that we will be using them at this point in time.
Abe Babe...