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.
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