A Town Square for my site

The internet feels strangely empty, despite all the new content being published everywhere. It is crowded, but lonely. I can't really feel the human presence as I used to. I miss opening some random forum or public chat and finding other people who might share the same interests. I wanted my site to feel more alive. So I decided to build a town square for my site, where serendipity can bring people together and let them chat. I wanted presence, not a social network. Something lightweight and temporary. A small reminder that there are other people here too. You open the site and see a few other visitors wandering around at the bottom of the page. Maybe someone says hello. Maybe nobody talks at all. Either way, the site feels inhabited. It's a little space on the internet where people can chat, like a small café, or a small town square. If you scroll down, you will see an orange stick figure. That's you! All the other people online on the site will appear as black or grey figures.…