The Helpdesk remained very quiet, no massive outcry about the chatbox been gone from the "Search" and "Home" pages. Only side issues related were creating tickets as far as I noticed.
Then Maybe have it be a profile option to enable it for those that do want it?
I liked the chatbox because a lot of new users who needed help with their ratio would ask how to improve it. When I saw this I would encourage them to upload a torrent an give them seed bonus, Chatting with users in the Chatbox is really the only way I used seedbonus given away nearly 17k of seedbonus just to random users in it.