Is this a hint?

[The Statman]

I had been logged into the chatroom for a millisecond and I was greeted with this screes:

Welcome! You have entered [The Snooker Lounge] at 6:16 pm
[The Snooker Lounge]: Dean has left at 6:16 pm
[The Snooker Lounge]: austrian_girl has left at 6:16 pm
[The Snooker Lounge]: Mr Snooker has left at 6:16 pm

And thus I was left talking to myself.

Timing or what?

[April madness]

Hi Statman, this has happened to me before. Even when I entered in an empty chatroom. Perhaps they haven't log out properly so the system remembers them for longer time?

[snookersfun]

Oh no Statman, I don't want to worry you, but after all the strange computer occurances you had all day, I would now rather start to believe in a global conspiration theory fronted by your PC

[Curtis]

FlashChat holds the users in memory and when someone new signs on - it somehow 'flushes' the memory.

Odd, I know - but I don;t know how it can be resolved...

[Mitsuko]

I left before you joined, I could see you coming

Not really

[austrian_girl]

lol

Sorry Statman, I assure you we didn't do it on purpose.

If it happens again though, and you want to know what has been going on before, you might want to type in "/back number" to display the last up to 30 posts.

[Black_cat]

Yeah, it can be rather demoralizing. You knock on the door, open it tentatively, sneak a peek inside and...wham! The crowd dashing towards the exit knocks you over.
It's the system. It's the system. Yes.