Merge pull request #6836 from Citadel-Station-13/upstream-merge-37934

[MIRROR] Migrate goonchat pings to a subsystem

code/modules/goonchat/browserOutput.dm

@@ -105,19 +105,10 @@ GLOBAL_DATUM_INIT(iconCache, /savefile, new("data/iconCache.sav")) //Cache of ic
 	//do not convert to to_chat()
 	SEND_TEXT(owner, "<span class=\"userdanger\">Failed to load fancy chat, reverting to old chat. Certain features won't work.</span>")
 
-	pingLoop()
-
 /datum/chatOutput/proc/showChat()
 	winset(owner, "output", "is-visible=false")
 	winset(owner, "browseroutput", "is-disabled=false;is-visible=true")
 
-/datum/chatOutput/proc/pingLoop()
-	set waitfor = FALSE
-
-	while (owner)
-		ehjax_send(data = owner.is_afk(29) ? "softPang" : "pang") // SoftPang isn't handled anywhere but it'll always reset the opts.lastPang.
-		sleep(30)
-
 /datum/chatOutput/proc/ehjax_send(client/C = owner, window = "browseroutput", data)
 	if(islist(data))
 		data = json_encode(data)