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I just nuked chat on main page by pushing X to see what would happen.

Not the expected behavior of having to go into account settings reenable chat. A hide button would be appreciated. Basically minimizes the chat window to one line with the chat [min button] [close button] and no longer opens a socket every time page is refreshed. When min button is pushed again setting is updated and page is refreshed (restoring chat as is normal).