i felt that the ability to set up group working & networking topics of any kind provided they were on-topic to magick, contained a working/magickal agenda at their core, and have them protected from attack and heckler’s veto, was a thing that made this forum highly relevant and superior to others where the question was never addressed and flamewars were common. 
But anyway as stated you can start a group PM or whatever, and for non-political stuff if you want to make a post inviting people to PM you to chat, do it in the That Moment When thread, which functions as a kind of chat/off-topic hangout as well as for TMW moments. 
I’ve made this to try and meet some of that need, see if it takes off: