Logged into Firefox and nothing.
It's been a common issue that Chat on anything Chromium based (Brave, Ungoogled Chromium...ETC) makes the browser eat memory up the ass. If Chat was still at the bottom of the page (or maybe even with the dedicated Chat tab itself), you can observe this in action by just letting the page stay still for like an hour or two (maybe even less) and observing memory usage with some kind of monitoring tool (Task Manager, whatever there is on Linux...). You could easily see memory usage go up from a couple hundred MB's to GB's. Also, I don't think this was a problem with Firefox/anything Gecko related but that's just because I never saw any complaints about it.
It's mostly because of the members list on the side of it since it's constantly updating with usernames and avatars of people who are logging off and logging on again. The common way this was usually solved is to just block the list outright or just block chat entirely, using something to block it with like uBlock Origin or Brave's built-in blocker.
Code:
kiwifarms.st###chat-activity-scroller
(this one's for blocking the list)
Code:
||sneed.today/chat.ws$1p
||no-cookie.sneed.today/js/happyboard/chat/chat.js$1p
||sneed.today/assets/chat.js$1p
||sneed.today/test-chat$1p
sneed.today##.hb-chat--passive.hb-chat--widget.block--hb-chat.block
sneed.today##.hb-chat--widget.block--hb-chat.block
(this one's for blocking Chat outright)
However, I guess that problem is partially solved now since Chat is just gone entirely from the bottom of the page which means that the side list of registers people who are in the dedicated chat tab (going from literally everyone online on the Farms to the lower double-digits commonly).
Still don't know why Chat was removed from the bottom of the page but if there's a reason, I guess it's because of this. Can't believe that it took him
this long to finally take action on it, even if the solution isn't a great one lmao. I do want to know if that is actually the reason for Chat disappearing, though.