I don't like this site's hardball tactics.

O-M-G! Did we all disappear? Or were we never here to begin with?! The mind boggles.

Honestly, I think the IM Client is just causing the VGChartz server's a bit more stress than it's used to, I wouldn't worry about it. We're obviously going to see a few bumpy spots.

Well I just so happened to get 2k VG$ today, so I just might!

Whew. For a moment, I thought I'd been permabanned O.O

VGChartz should do this once a year. Keep everybody on their toes.

good thing i got IM

So now we need to work harder to exist? This reminds me of somebody telling us to get two jobs so we can buy a certain machine… lol VGC you all know what happened to them :P

http://vgchartz.com/profiles/index.php

103 people have VGC IM...not bad.

Let's try to guess what it is. I have three suggestions:
- Coding error (wrong field/table)
- Connection leak (out of connections)
- Invalid connection state

The last two aren't likely IMHO. If there's a connection pool on the other end, the behaviour is too consistent, but I won't rule them out.

but only 3 people in chat rooms -_-