>would rather see who else is on the thread and possibly be able to chat through the thread (without resorting to opening a conference or going to IRC). just my own opioion though, i could be wrong..

That sound interesting. I was working on that last month. So, if I understand correctly, you want to be able to choose someone who's online and just click to request that person to join you in a conference without having to create a conference first (this will, of course, create a new conference by default just by selecting someone to request a chat with). Or, we can also have the possibility to request that person to go in conference in private with you so noone else will know about it.

Is that what you mean?