@mightymoe,,,yup, sure does.

But if the guy really wants private the only thing that I know that actually works is an App called Discord. Its meant for gamers, but many of us Admins use it because its fast. My buddy uses it for chat channels on one of his sites so his members can talk in private, even then there is a Moderator in the chat hannels watching to protect the members from people who post crap like Porn Links/Pirate Crap, etc. So its still monitored.

You can just do an install and use it for whatever I guess and you can talk through it. No idea, we use it because incorporating a chatbox on a forum with thousands of ppl online 24/7 will never work, so this is what is used and it saves time on nightly site backups if ppl are sending thousands of messages a day to each other.

He would still have to tell people to install the app and set it up. After set up you can just yap away 24/7. The guys I know who use it are really great coders and swear by it. Must work well from what I understand since one site that I know the owner for years has a bout 15 mods monitoring the channels. Its an all age forum, so younger ppl are allowed on to hang out, but they dont know we are watching them. We let them do whatever they want as long as its legal.