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Intro

Watch out!

Remember this? It’s now the default for all new Roblox places.

This means that legacy chat will no longer be maintained

According to Roblox:

What’s next?

  • We will be addressing developer needs for their experiences to migrate to TextChatService. Top examples include granular bubble chat customization and TextChannel UI support.

  • As we are no longer maintaining it, we will mark the legacy chat service and its APIs as deprecated.

    • You can still use legacy chat in your experiences, but it will no longer be actively maintained.

    • We will not require TextChatService for new experiences until a majority of developer needs are addressed.

What does this mean for us?

Luckily, not too much, however, it could mean that a few chat commands could be broken in the future.

Functionality Legacy Chat In-Experience Text Chat Differences
Send a chat message Players:Chat() TextChannel:SendAsync() The TextChatService:SendChat() method supports more advanced chat features such as rich text formatting and message priority. It also includes built-in filtering to help prevent inappropriate messages from being sent.
Send a system message Chat:SystemMessage() TextChatService:SystemMessage()
Implement messaging callbacks Chat:InvokeChatCallback(), Chat:RegisterChatCallback() TextChatService:SendingMessage(), TextChatService.OnIncomingMessage() The legacy chat system binds a function to chat system events for delivering messages. The two methods of the in-experience text chat system have more flexibilities and customization options.
Add custom chat commands ChatService/ChatCommand module TextChatCommand The in-experience text chat system has a dedicated class representing a text command for customization rather than using a legacy chat module.
Disable chat Game Settings in Studio and ChatWindow/ChatSettings module for hiding the chat window ChatWindowConfiguration.Enabled

As you can see a lot of yields have changed, meaning as developers we need to be prepared to make updates.

Conclusion

I hope this chat does bring us a lot of important things in the future. This is important for people like @OH20_rbLX who are working on Admino who rely on the chat for commands.

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