Activity in RDE

Is there a way to have a shoutbox or chat in the RDE as a way to connect with or contact active players mainly to see who's online instead of constantly flipping from tab to tab to find the forum tab to see if anyone was online, to only notice hours later they were.

I can see who's been online by highlighting or hovering over their name and it gives last time online. I always find myself missing that moment to connect by hours when it'd be nice to see in RDE who came online...like PSN/XBOX

Might be asking for too much. Just a suggestion/rant.