I have noticed for the second time now that my global chat window has just stopped. I still seem to be connected to the game, but my messages are not appearing in chat, nor any new chat messages.
This is happening too often for just refreshing the page to be a good answer. I don't know if this is due to the rise in Glitchen population, but I never saw this in Beta, and it's constant now. I know the staff have been looking at changing global chat, but whatever happens, the chat freeze needs a fix.
I'm hoping the reason they're talking about getting rid of Global Chat is that the game just can't handle so many players on a single chat line, and replace it with something more managable (like the random chat idea).
This also happens in group chats other than Global. This makes it worse, as if you don't see something in Global every 2 seconds, you know it's frozen. In a more quiet group, you might be missing out on conversations for a considerable amount of time until you realize its frozen.
Yeah, this has been happening off and on for a few weeks, but more the past few days as y'all have noticed. Sorry about that, we'll be poking around more on it.