ChatMakeSystemMessage not firing

[me7474]

hey there, Im working on a discord bot that allows members within a specific server to chat with people in game. I have the backend for the discord bot working 100% so Im not going to provide that code. I have tested it and it is definitely not the error. The issue Im having is that ChatMakeSystemMessage is literally not working at all. here is my server code:

connection:on("message", function(args)
	args = game:GetService("HttpService"):JSONDecode(args)
	
	local msg = ""
	
	for i, v in ipairs(args) do
		print(msg)
		msg = msg..v.." "
	end
	msg = msg:gsub(".?$","")
	
	print("message:", msg)
	game.ReplicatedStorage.Connection:FireAllClients(msg)
end)

know that there is 0 problem here. I have debugged this pretty heavily using print statements and this works 100% as intended.

client script:

game.ReplicatedStorage.Connection.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(msg)
	print("message (client):", msg)
	game.StarterGui:SetCore("ChatMakeSystemMessage", {
		Text = msg,
		Color = Color3.fromRGB(0, 197, 197),
		TextSize = 30
	})
	script.Parent.Parent.PlayerGui.ScreenGui.TextLabel.Text = msg
end)

the odd thing here is that the line that changes the GUI works 100%. I added it as a test to see if the issue is ChatMakeSystemMessage or something else, and oddly it seems to be ChatMakeSystemMessage.

there are 0 errors within output, and it seems to be correct syntax. Im super confused as to why ChatMakeSystemMessage would behave like this, I would love for anyone to help me.

(don’t mind the fact that I currently have 0 filtering in place, it will be added as soon as this is figured out.)

edit: I forgot to include the fact that the code

game.StarterGui:SetCore("ChatMakeSystemMessage", {
	Text = msg,
	Color = Color3.fromRGB(0, 197, 197),
	TextSize = 30
})

has been stolen directly from another one of my games and works fine within that game.

[weakroblox35]

@me7474

msg

What does this print?

[me7474]

msg prints whatever is sent over from discord. If someone in discord types “hello everyone” msg prints out “hello everyone”.

[weakroblox35]

Are you sure that msg is a string?
print(type(msg)) if isn’t then just use tostring(msg)

[me7474]

just confirmed msg is a string, also I tried ChatMakeSystemMessage with something I knew was a string (“test value”) and that did nothing also.

[weakroblox35]

Have you tried setting up its font?

[me7474]

tried copying code from an alvinblox tutorial that included font, this didnt work either for some reason which is odd because alvinblox proved it worked within the vid

[Dreek16designer (Dreek)]

are you using textchatservice or legacychatservice in your game’s textchatservice object?

[me7474]

textchatservice. Should I be using legacy?

[Dreek16designer (Dreek)]

try it i guess, my server side chat messages stopped working when i switched to textchatservice.

[me7474]

legacy fixed it! Annoying that I cant use Text, I prefer it.