User blog comment:Flamefang/Chat: What's killing it?/@comment-1997905-20111031114251

The situation with chat is not anything out of the ordinary. Chat is a standard Wikia product: while initially supported heavily, after one or two rounds of bug fixes and one major improvement, it's entirely ignored until after people have complained about it for months. The new editor is another example, as well as Dashboard to a lesser extent. Message wall is likely to end up the same way. That being said, Bitmonk (a tech) was able to reproduce the problem and locate what was wrong, but was unable to figure out why. Personally, I blame that on overcomplicated code, but that's another story.