The chat code is not perfect, you are right that the chat freezes when the connection goes down There is no easy way to fix it - it would need a complete rewrite (I guess it would take several hundred coding hours.)
In any case you should try to fix those "micro outages" - IMO they are not normal.
skodak
Chat
Chat freezing - also error "Your SID was rejected"
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