Here's some messages to thaw out the room

It really shouldn't be the case that the main chat for the site should freeze automatically

StackExchange really just needs to integrate their chat with some more established chat platform tbh… even though I’d be interested in chatting here it’s so buried in the UI, and also impossible to even ping ppl here who haven’t recently been in the room…

yeah I agree about it being buried in the UI

it's not obvious, and it's also not obvious that things that don't quite fit on the main site are often discussed here