1) When I press the button (inside the chat room) to launch the chat room into a new window I am autologged out of the gamedev site.
2) A recent thing (to my awareness) is random kick events where the user is autobooted - the user is informed by chat log that they have been kicked, while the chat log in the room itself simply shows the user has left the room. There seems also to be a time discrepancy with the notification of said event as you may experience nothing happening in chat find yourself kicked only to re-enter the room and discover that chat has been talking longer than the kick event notice.
Using Google Chrome