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

Ever since the introduction of emoticons, chat has been crashing often and lagging. I cannot say for sure that the two are connected but considering chat was fine until the emoticons introduction, I am lead to believe that it is due to wikis using emoticons larger than 19x19 pixels. I think emoticons need another round of devolpment that prevents any emoticons over 19x19 from being allowed so chat is not slowed down due to the server needing to allocate extra resources to resize the emoticons