Hidden chat messages show in the unread badge

[EmeraldSlash (Rio)]

Overriding a message’s content to whitespace only will cause that message to be hidden, as per the following topic:

@be_nj

We shipped a change today that will actually prevent messages from appearing in the chat window if they only contain whitespace. This means what I’ve posted below should now behave as the OP requested.

However, the message will still show up in the unread badge, which is bad UX.

[Abcreator]

This has been a long-standing issue:

Notification icon still appears for removed chat messages (TextChatService)

Currently the only way to remove TextChatService messages on the client is by using OnIncomingMessage and returning a TextChatMessageProperties instance with it’s Text field set to " ". This works “fine” yet has one issue attached to it, despite the message being entirely removed (and the rest of TextChatService noticing the change; not rendering the message, etc.) the notification badge still appears for the deleted message, giving the user the false impression that they have a message to view …

[thirdtakeonit]

Thanks for the report! I filed a ticket in our internal database.