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Wow, I've seen those little chat assistants that live in the corners of web pages before, but this is the first one that plays a continuously looping animation with flashing lights while I try to read an article. Sadly, the bot doesn't understand the command "go away"... it just asks for my email address so a real person can follow up later.

Anyways, the performance improvements for resuming after an ungraceful shutdown sound nice.

This chat pop up covered the "OK" button for the cookie warning on my display. So essentially I only had 90% of my vertical resolution to read this article.
Sadly, 90% can be considered a lot nowadays. It's not uncommon for me to find websites who manage to cover more than 50% of their layout with useless shit. Sigh.
Drove me nuts after opening a new tab to read it - the tab kept flashing that I had a new message. Closed the tab before reading.
The flashing tab on this site is absolutely abysmal. Who thought this was a good idea.

> You have (1) new message!

What is this, a "local singles in my area" scam site or an interesting blog? And it's a message to ask if you need help no less!

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I am waiting for an event bus. Why a messaging product does not have an event bus?
I don't understand what you're waiting for. You can easily build an event bus using a Kafka topic.