User blog comment:Sean Colombo/Custom Emoticons Available in Chat/@comment-1393830-20110914215049/@comment-1491391-20110915202635

btw: we rewrote the emoticons code to be completely off of the server (it's done in your browser) so there should be no more impact on server speed or crashing. I released that new code at midnight PST (13.5 hours ago) and so far everything is looking good.

Please let us know if you see any lagginess or Chat unavailability (because we think it's okay now). Thanks! :)