The first thing that a lot of people do before chatting, is bring themselves up to date with what's been going on in the last few days. With the old chat room, that meant entering the room, and reading back while everyone was trying to greet you, then logging on again for chatting.
So what I've done, is separate the live chat, with the last 20 messages, from the archive of old chat, and you can see the archive any time you want.
Don't bother clicking on the entries for future dates, not even Valkyrie magic can show you those!
The latest archives are in the member's area
An obvious consequence of this, is that everything you say in the public chatroom, is preserved for posterity, for ever. So don't say things in the chatroom that you don't want other people to hear about.
The new system went live on January 11, after an extensive five-minute test (you can see me testing it at the beginning). Since then, I added these archives and changed the colours people can choose to eliminate the garish ones.
If there's a word, phrase, name or email address you're looking for, you can ask Sandra to:
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