I just popped into the chat for the first time since I wrote that post days ago. The first thing I see, a 2min old msg, is

"Was a highlight this morning for an hour resetting every 2mins "

This is the kinda stuff I see every time. It's not a fluke. It's hard to imagine the owners/admin are okay with this situation, especially for so long. If it were my website I'd be freaking out after 2 hours. It is what it is I guess.

Hate to double post, but just to put it bluntly. I don't pop into the chat often anymore because this problem didn't get better, it got so much worse it's totally broken now. But when I do, I always see people commenting on the reset. Users are just taking it and joking "hamster fell off the wheel again".

This critical failure of the chat began happening around the same time as some other changes, such as adding the chat button to the right side of the screen on the whole website.

So, it doesn't appear to be a random event, and should be something that you can at least get back to partial failure (instead of total failure we have now) by rolling back/undoing some changes.

The last time I tried to talk to someone there, I refreshed the chat and pasted my message every reply so it would not have time to reset during the 10 seconds I spent typing it, which would make me inadvertently send to the whole room (a "leak". We still had leaks and I made a kik account just to keep talking to this person, lol. She said this chat was "too chaotic" and wanted away from it as soon as possible. This isn't a conductive way to meet people, and most will just leave in frustration first.

Edit: Thinking about it, and in the interest of being productive. A prior change stopped users from being purged from the online list when they leave. They just stay there. It's plausible that the platform is resetting more often because it can't handle the ballooning list of users. Then, when it resets, people often experience it as a "chat leak" because you don't necessarily know it reset and the system will send your message in the main room even though it may appear you are still in the private chat on your screen, which hasn't updated.

The issue of users not being purged from the system happened at the same time as updates that included the green/amber online dot. This feature is not worth breaking the whole thing over. I'm just one guy observing this but I would strongly urge you to revert back to the state it was before.

But my fear is that you are just editing the server live, without any backups or even notepad files to swap out lol

I just started a new convo with someone cool in the chat and two messages leaked in 5 minutes. First chat I had in a week.

I just said sorry but f this and left.

It's like a joke we have a permanent chat button to put it on every page to access a feature whose core functionality is critically broken.

I realize you guys are working to make the chat better, but the updates are slowly making it go from tolerably full of glitches to completely broken and unusable.

Perhaps you might consider making changes in a segregated environment and not deploying it until it demonstrably works. I feel like edits are being made directly to the web server to see what happens.

Another option is rolling back to the old version pending the success of new software changes. But you might have to copy/paste the old code before overwriting it first to do that. Whoops?

It's a good thing the green/amber activity dot was added because users are no longer dropped from the list when they leave the chat, leading to a very long list of phantom users. Except the dot isn't really reliable either. Ironically I wonder if adding this nonfunctional dot is what broke names purging from the list.

I actually even wondered if the chat resetting constantly was an intentional band aid solution to purge the list of names. Which seems silly but tracks with the pattern of attempting to fix/add a feature comically breaking everything.

The chat leaked messages 6 months ago, the new site banner is security and the chat is even worse now by a wide margin. I'm not sure why it's still even up, take it down until it's functional.

It's his first week on the Internet, go easy on him

Well of course content creators would need to block more often. As the valuable models that get all the attention, it doesn't take data analyzing to discern why they would need to use this feature more than, say, me.

The decision of whether one person does not want to deal with someone anymore is their own. It's extremely strange that number of blocks would be limited to a small number like 15 because it would be "no fun". If someone feels the need to block someone, they are not interested in a third parties' definition of what fun is, they are interested in making the harassment stop.

I know, it would be be pretty tragic and un-fun if someone exercised their right to choose who to interact with and blocked someone who didn't deserve it. I'm really glad staff is making sure such an awful thing can never transpire.

This. At first I wondered if the top bar was merely being MOVED to the left side, and it was just in a transition. Nope -they intend to keep the top bar there to populate it with more icons.

Full stop guys, this idea is absolutely terrible. The only way to salvage it is to make the top bar non-persistent. That is, when you scroll down it doesn't stay there. For example, another popular feedism site that begins with an F has a big bar on the left side AND at the top. But the top one is just part of the page content. You can scroll away from it.

Making TWO always-there bars that you can't get rid of no matter what you do just made everyone's screen for actual page content like 30% smaller, and the browser draws it accordingly.

I'm not trying to be mean but it's not just a little bad, it's actually actively weird that you guys think its an improvement to make everyone's screen so much smaller from a design standpoint. It made me wonder if you are only testing this on a 27" 4k monitor and don't care about normal user scenarios? Because you need to worry about how it looks on a normal 14-17" laptop.
You can't just arbitrarily take away screen real estate like that. Then again, I guess you can it's your website...

Thanks for the effort, but the full screen is now a bit too full screen. It takes up the entire Windows display including the task bar and browser controls. So if you want to say, switch tabs or do literally anything else in Windows, you must now switch in and out of full screen every time.

Overall, a net negative in usability that will probably see me using the site less often.

I can't agree more. The update was so bad, that at first I assumed they were just experimenting with the back end or made a mistake. That it might actually have been done on purpose is completely baffling.

The bar on the left side wouldn't be SO horrible, except they still have the one at the top. All the same information used to be handled by the top bar, so the only result is a massive loss of screen real estate for no gain.

Before, the only way to use chat without being a completely fumbling mess was full screen mode. But this update broke the full screen mode of the chat too. I'm not alone noticing this.

Seems to me they just change stuff cause they think it might be cool on a whim, don't test it, and don't even care about rolling it back if it doesn't work lol

Edit: Either that or they really only care about mobile and what happens to desktop along the way is ancillary lol...

I just use notepad haha