New Facebook Chat introduction as sidebar

Today the new Facebook web chat was rolled out for my account. I guess they already began a couple days ago to roll out the new “feature”.

For me it doesn’t make sense at all to show offline contacts who I have interacted most with. I’d like to see who is online! Another downside of this new “feature”  is that you can’t see a list of online users anymore. You have to use the searchbox to find someone.

A quick alternative would be to use this popout-chat in a new browser tab/window
https://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php

Update #1

They changed it back to the old web chat.

Update #2

No old chat available again.