User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: June 28, 2017/@comment-1414871-20170630212645

i think a lot of people are forgetting how awful chat was before they put in the spam filter

messages constantly being slow or being eaten up for no particular reason, constant chat crashes... i'm pretty sure this spam cooldown thing was meant to solve that. yeah, it was bad this morning but it's been fixed to be more reasonable and i havent actually got a spam cooldown message in a while despite chatting at a pretty busy and fast discussion

its not perfect but it's not the godawful ad stuff.