User blog comment:Dopp/Technical Update: September 13, 2011/@comment-1393830-20110913232641/@comment-1491391-20110914001045

@Dinoguy1000 just to clarify, blanking your MediaWiki:Emoticons page should not affect whether the server goes down, so there's no need to do that :)

We do have some known performance issues from Chat & they should be fixed shortly.

Sorry for the inconvenience!