Chat has been revamped. It looks pretty much the same but underneath it's now running it's own web server. This allows for real time communication and other potential stuff.
Currently there are 2 rooms. Global and videos but I will open up music soon. You can switch between rooms with /room nameofroom. Videos and music are "video" rooms where you can queue youtube videos up and they will play in sync across devices in the chat. Queue a video with /video and the youtube url or id. You can skip a video you've queued (while it's playing) with /skip. Music has a 10 minute limit and videos has a 30 minute limit.
The chat log will now only load the last 20 messages. You can reload the daily log with /loadlog. This works for global chat only and only while in the full sized chat window.
This is a beta test so there will be problems. Please report any you come across.
Edit: Some people are having trouble with the new chat. I want to figure this out and the more information you provide the better. In the mean time you can use the full sized chat window here
https://www.voat.xyz/frontchat?chatview=full