@AaronBertrand I know techie types being one. Pretty sure if it was broken, you'd be annoyed and fix it out of spite
> An example query that shows how long each table took for Stack Overflow (keeping in mind, this weekend is a bad reference point that involved me literally falling asleep; next weekend's should look a lot better):
>_>
In most places, falling asleep on weekends is a gooooood thing
@Ausername I wouldn't mind as such but chat dev has been on the backburner longer than I'm comfortable with. SE's occationally left things I find moulder and then sunset them when they were too broken to fix.
So your pride is actually irony? I do not think so.
Even because you are someone who who doesn't like the company Stack Exchange (according to your profile description), I believe you thought it was pretty cool.
SE will be glad to get rid of chat, so yeah, better not give them the excuse they need. But there are so many worse things, that it really doesn't matter.
@AndreasmovedtoCodidact actually it was true once, when they used it as their internal chat system, but they switched to something else since then, so chat is now 100% "disposable".
The only string that keeps it somewhat needed is the TL, but it can stay around while they shut down all the rest, it already has its own rules and handling anyway. (e.g. mod powers there work in different way.)
@Marco It was really just a joke. I'm not sure if you misunderstand me, though. I am not in support of attacking chat, or otherwise harming the sites like you did. I also understand you didn't mean to do any harm, and it was just a mistake.
@ShadowWizardLoveZelda Internally, sure, but it's a necessary tool for communication with the community. As long as there are community moderators and curators, chat will have to remain.
But if that would fall once and for all, chat is next, yes.
Oh, I have mixed up two accounts. I conflated your account with the account of the person that I first replied to. I saw you both only briefly here, so when I got the first reply from you, I thought you were the other guy, and didn't think of checking to see if that was true. That's my bad
To be fair, maybe my joke would require some familiarity with me for one to understand it was sarcasm. I guess the person I replied to with the joke doesn't have that, as they're not a regular here. Well, my bad, again.