[martianlantern]

would be great if there was a chat room where we can also chat with all the other people in the lobby :)

[eieio]

I'd be worried that the chatroom would be filled with words that are not (ahem) in keeping with the christmas spirit!

I did spend some time thinking about how to let people leave "gifts" over folks could open, but wasn't sure how to make that work in a compelling way. Maybe next year...

[Bender]

If going that route perhaps code could be borrowed from Devzat [1] not my repo

It is ssh chat and has word filters.

[1] - https://github.com/quackduck/devzat