Meta Meta Stack Overflow?

Question

Some discussions don't belong even on meta, e.g. when it's pure noise.

But sometimes we want to make some noise amongst ourselves, don't we? At least I know I do. I've only been on Stack Overflow for a few months, but I already felt like I've started to develop some connections to other users, and just want to... chat?

So where can we do this? Is there an IRC/Google wave channel/whatever where SO users hang out where we can just ask, "How's everybody doing today?"

Answer 1

Since this question was asked, a chat system was implemented. It's currently split into three areas:

• Stack Overflow (https://chat.stackoverflow.com);
• Meta Stack Exchange (http://chat.meta.stackexchange.com); and
• all other sites (https://chat.stackexchange.com; access a specific site's chatrooms directly through http://chat.[parent site name].com).

Answer 2

If we go with meta.meta.stackoverflow.com, then next we will wonder what is the deepest possible meta-level. This is kind of insane. ;-) Reminds me of Inception (movie).

BTW, isn't discussion about "meta.meta." topic for "meta.meta.meta." ? ;-P