and on the 6,767th day, we were granted console chat
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I thought you just said R1 which doesn’t make sense because you use that to switch tools. But now I see what you mean because I just played today and discovered it.
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this is a really cool update! i was talking to someone from my Xbox!
amazing! gonna test when i get home, but does it get a cooldown like normal chatting if you spam it too quickly? on other roblox quick chat systems they usually bypass the spam cooldown
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Not yet, but I’ll work on it right after lunch. I assume stopping the bypass would mean the checking spam is all on the server. If you have any other suggestions, I’d love to hear them!
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seems to work now, maybe it was just a studio thing
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Nice but why did we have to remove legacy chat? Most useless removal EVER
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Exactly, I really wish and hope for them to stop ignoring our concerns and actually do something to address them.
It’s ridiculous that many of the frontend and some backend bugs related to TextChatService have been reported for a very long time and most still remain to be unaddressed and ignored.
Additionally, the performance issues has been reported back as far as March 2023 and they still remain to be unaddressed after ~2 years.
This is all without the fact that a lot of features and use cases are missing from TextChatService and which would affect a fair amount of games when TextChatService gets completely removed next month.
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@KingJesseDev it took longer than I thought -I restructured the server script and my power & wifi went out temporarily-, but it’s done. 
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it looked old, the code was old, it couldnt support new features
I hear this all the time, and I do not want to hear it again LegacyChat ported to TextChatService
From modifying the LegacyChat, I can tell you the code is high quality, and the amount of deprecated things is quite limited. Making the chat look more modern was also very easy to do
And roblox THEMSELVES implemented chat translation into the legacy chat, they just never told anyone. Literally overwriting a FFlag and adding a bool value was enough to enable it
The worst part of LegacyChat is it’s complexity, which mostly stems from the customizability modules. On the client especially, messages go through a lot of modules and functions, making it hard to track what is happening
It’s not because the chat is 10 years old that it’s bad. Because it is so old also means it had time to get refined into a very solid peice of code
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Will you guys eventually be working on essentially “upgrading” the console version of Roblox, to utilise next-gen console features & performance? e.g. support 120 fps, allm, vrr, etc?
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thats not really what i meant by the code is old. i didnt make it seem like its from 2006 or something, its just old code, that deserved to be rewritten
also dont seem like im mad at you, i used your legacy chat port 
im ngl i forgot about this, why does roblox not support this stuff?
I don’t understand what you mean then, 2006 or 2015, I don’t understand what distinction you are making
And code shouldn’t be rewritten simply because it’s old, it should be rewritten because either the code is bad, or the company is moving to a different code structure, … (and perhaps this is one of the reasons for roblox as they are making all their new stuff in react-lua)
Finally, console players will be able to communicate!
Amazing feature Roblox!
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Every Console Player RN:
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Took you guys long enough. /s
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LONG LIVE THE CHAT EQUALITY (since i play in phone pc and xbox) finally, a w upd
This is great, but one thing is that the chatbox often gets in the way of UI behind it and can sometimes make a game unplayable.
This affects gameplay mostly when using keyboard and mouse but I have also experienced this sometimes when using controller.