Oh, I would love that! Things are going SO fast, it's hard to keep up. There's a lot of stuff and happenings and episodes of my character's life, that I would love to RP, but there's simply no time! Especially, when you HAVE to follow the IG time (i.e. no future-RPs or past-RPs allowed). I believe another solution would be to simply allow for users to create topics that take place in the past or in the future, thereby making it possible to RP every situation they want to, and not be disappointed, when they miss out on their character's first kiss in third year, because time was moving so fast, they couldn't keep up.
BUT I know that changing the time has been suggested before (many times, when WoP only existed as pottersiden.dk), and I'm fairly sure the suggestion is shot down every single time.

I have this problem as well, and it sucks. I'm almost never in chat, 'cause I can't keep up when the chat's acting like this.

That's a brilliant idea indeed! The same thing happens to me, when I see some of my friends reading/responding to a specific topic - it would be amazing to just click on it to enter the topic, insted of having to look around ALL the RP-places on site to find the topic.