I think it's clearly better this way, even for chat -- now you can see immediately that your opponent said something.
changes
in the end is it not good to comunicate lucidly with like minded people, if not why not just purchase a computer game 
Somehow I'm starting to get the feeling chess.com just changed it to torture people.
or play on move people over to face book and mobiles, on mobiles there is no
chat I have been informed
If you want things to remain the same, things will have to change. :)
is this another of your spoonarisms Martin, with the amount of blog you do I would have thought you against changing the chat default, as I recall we used too chat shallot 


Are there any other players out there as dissapointed as me with some of the changes to chess.com lately eg, chat has now swopped for moves as default or has been confused by it.