Ummm- didn't know there was such a thing! What's it for (as opposed to what we do here)? Just general chit-chat?

It is a general "chit-chat". But our forum tends to stay small, so we forget the conversation side exists. And sometimes a new poster will end up there, only to be totally ignored. The conversation side was where I first posted. We really don't have any rules regarding which side to post on and wasn't intending any. I just didn't want us to forget someone may have visited there.