Short happy version (yay):
Meep had no choice but to remove all perks that are considered p2w, and decided not to give everyone /feed (so as to not break the eco). However, this is a problem for people who use minechat: they can die and helplessly be unable to type anything (I couldn't type /spawn, /msg anything: I got an error since I was dead).
I suggest:
1. Make a disclaimer than minechat is a no-go, and you're on your own if you use it.
2. Make a system where if you're not afk, but you're standing still (e.g. on Minechat lol), you will not lose hunger and thus not die (no longer losing all your items to clearlag after dying and not being able to /back).
Long, sad, boring explanation:
In Towny, you must eat in order to stay alive, and if you don't eat, you will die no matter what (your hearts do not stay at 1/2 a heart anymore when you have no hunger bars left). This was my expirience, if I am incorrect then I am incorrect. I'm assuming this is in place to help keep the economy stay great, since people must buy food. However, I was on minechat, (on my pvp, mob, explosions and fire disabled plot) and noticed that I couldn't send anymore messages suddenly because I had died (I was in Towny). I lost some god tools, I beleive, but worse was that I could not type in anything. I would get a message saying "Could not send message." This means that I had died, since you can't send messages or commands when you die (also minechat labeled my hearts at 0). Correct me if I'm wrong on not being able to send messages when dead. Even when reconnecting to Meep, I got stuck on this "Could not send message" error and thus could not /back to get my items after all of the shenanigans.
If you want photo evidence, ill hand it to you through forum pm or in-game.