The chat did work for some time, and I tried on a few occasions to get people to visit it more often. No dice. As for submitting stories to the main page, I believe you have to send it to some new email address. I think the only way they can get posted is if one of the site updaters puts it up, but that might take a while because they're not as active anymore as you can probably see from the last post.
And yes, Senjuro is the man to talk to about donations.
And yes, Senjuro is the man to talk to about donations.
In soviet goggles, Russia does nothing.