What’s going on here? Nobody can talk now in any game very frustrating.
By the looks of it, the filtering service is down.
When you chat:
- Chat displays as underscores ______
- Filters chat server-side
- Shows filtered text instead of underscores. ______
I think it’s the filtering service being slow or down entirely. It happens in most, if not all games and is usually the result of latency issues between the server and the filtering service, from what I understand.
@TheGamer101 was your change reverted?
http://devforum.roblox.com/t/chat-broken-i-messed-something-up-not-sure-what/34048/16
I thought the underscores were done away with in favor of a message in the chat?
The underscores were kept along with adding a message to explain them. I am not sure why the message did not display in this case though.
The message might have been displayed but the chat was flooded with underscore messages before OP had a chance to notice it. It’d be great if we could hold off on displaying messages until they’re filtered instead of showing underscores to
- Alleviate flickering issue where filtering completes only a split second after underscore is shown
- Prevents notification from being pushed out of chat window
- Removes arbitrary notation that nobody understands from chat
I head the primary reason for them was so chat messages could be displayed in the same order across clients, but I don’t really see what value that has aside from winning “I said it first lol!” arguments.