Throwing this into under review while we investigate my work around.

 

We have now altered our maintenance process completely to make chat channels great again.
Your personal files, which store which channels you are in will no longer get cleared. Instead they will follow the cleanup policy. This means if you are offline for 90 days, and lose your inventory file, you will also lose the file that stores your joined chat channels.

For those of you who are active at least once every 3 months, all your chat channel settings will now stay as they are indefinitely.
Keep in mind each server has it's own chat channel settings file, so if you want to ensure you are part of a certain chat channel globally, make sure you join it on every server you are on.

Enjoy! <3

PS: This also saves your ignore lists!