I think that the situation when this room (intended as a general purpose) is the one which exists is slightly better than the situation before - when the only room open room was this one:
@V.V. Well, it all depends on whether they notice it or not. But nobody could use the room while it was frozen.
I am not sure how it is on your site - some sites have various discussions related to chat on their meta. I am not sure whether this is the case for Russian Language Meta.
If there are chat-related discussions on meta, people who visit might notice that there is chat.
Some users might notice that there is chat in the drop-down menu.
And the more activity the chatroom has, the more likely it is to appear in the sidebar. (I guess - I do not know whether this is really documented somewhere.)
Sidebar is quite visible, so people might notice that there are some chatrooms if they appear there.
It is from Mathematics - but in the same way, if there are some active chatrooms, they should appear at least sometimes in the sidebar.
@V.V. Well, the fact that the chatrooms are displayed in the sidebar (this is true both on meta and on the main site) is a kind of advertisement of the chatrooms.
I am not sure why I do not see them anywhere on this site. Maybe because the chatroom were inactive for long time....?
This is what I see in the place where I would expect to see the chatrooms:
We'll see whether the fact that we have posted a few messages here will change anything - whether at least this room will be displayed there instead of just an empty box saying "visit chat".
