User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: May 22, 2012/@comment-10370-20120530012153

Hi folks -- Chat will be down for at least an hour tonight, starting about five minutes ago. There's a performance problem that the techs have been working on all day. They turned off Chat for a little while to help them isolate what's causing the problem. Last I heard, they were planning to turn Chat back on in about an hour. Sorry for all the glitches today, and not giving any notice for the Chat outage. Thanks for your patience. :)