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Added a chat feature to the website, the bubble on the bottom right. I think it's a huge waste of opportunity that most games do not have a global chat on their main menu, so I've been meaning to do things like this for a while. This is not a global chat, but it's part of said feature that I'll likely add in my next game. One of the nice things that happened during SNKRX's success was that lots of people globally converged on the same thing for a while. To the degree that my job is making people's lives better, it's a waste to not use that convergence maximally, and one of the ways I think that most single-player games lack in this is not using the game as a "third space." The natural way to solve this problem is making the game multiplayer, but there are multiple ways of doing that outside the game itself, and chat-like features are one example. The other natural way is just using Discord, but that's lame as hell and I'd like to try different approaches depending on the game itself, there's lots of room for experimentation. I think as people come to terms with the fact that social media kind of sucks in many ways, there's an opening for such spaces to become more useful. Some of the fondest memories of my youth are the time I spent with my guilds in MMOs, and that kind of experience of the Internet being a physical place, before social media took over, is always a nice goal to strive towards. More details about the chat feature in the privacy note posted below, it's essentially just a chat-with-me kind of function to both test various things on the server and also, well, chat with me.