Wait, so you’re telling us we need to migrate to a new API that doesn’t even exist yet? And that all forms of user communication must go through this currently nonexistent API or we’ll get axed?
You’ve all lost it.
Because they can’t, a custom chat system could go directly through remotes without ever touching their API. It would have to be rewritten manually.
They’re just forcing us to always use their API so they can listen in and moderate everything.
DONT FORCE THIS 
This will completely DESTROY my game as it ABSOLUTELY RELIES on custom chats!
Please think of an alternative way to do this!
so i have to go to all of my games and migrate or else i might get banned
What about players who have starter places and play exclusively on mobile, without access to a computer (i.e. without being able to access the Studio)?
Will they simply suffer from moderation because they don’t have a computer?
This is ABSURD.
EDIT: As Reapimus said, only games with modified versions of the legacy chat may not go through automigration. Thanks for the clarification.
What if a user contains private placeslots with no access to other players? Not having been updated, edited nor played in years.
Will the developers be forced to delete their old chat code? I’m wondering how this enforcement will actually go.
Roblox try not to make the worst updates known to man (impossible)
- Legacy chat system will be removed by April 30th, 2025.
i loved this style
EDIT: still love the style.
roblox creates starter places for everyone, but not everyone has access to a computer.
unfair.
EDIT: As Reapimus said, only games with modified versions of the legacy chat may not go through automigration. Thanks for the clarification.
are they purposefully trying to wipe off users so that their trash servers can finally handle it or what
Please rethink this. There must be an easier solution. Maybe just fix and keep maintaining the legacy chat service? I hope if enough complain this could end up getting U turned like that time they announced a controversial policy change over use of catalog assets in games.
I hope this was not triggered by bad press or a recent lawsuit.
my account is gonna get deleted for forgetting to migrate to that service in some random baseplate game
or for starter places or private games…
i have like 100 games, there’s no way I’m loading every one of them and having to migrate there
You do not have to, ROBLOX will
Seems like me that this update is also trying to push everything through secured channels rather than remote events which I support. However, if that’s the case can you please provide some sort of proper guide detailing how one would go about translating the old api to the new api, given that custom UI is still allowed. A proper and detailed guide would be really helpful in minimizing time spent adjusting to this update (which could be a wildly painful task for many)
Those starter places are completely unaffected if they are not using a modified version of legacy chat since they would be automatically migrated over without issue, so what’s the problem?
You can disable the current UI and entirely overwrite it using rhe legacy chat UI: you just need to use the TextChatService APIs.
I have like a whole rant about these changes.
I’ve been on Roblox since late 2016, and never seen Roblox have it’s biggest Developer downfall.
This update just shows how Roblox doesn’t care about it’s developers. This update will break Old and Unmaintained Roblox games and they don’t even care about if their whole community is complaining about it.
I’m sorry, but WHAT? IT’S A REQUIREMENT TO USE THE TEXTCHATSERVICE NOW?
Also the fact that failing to use this is under violation of the Roblox TOS? This is purely the worst decision that Roblox has decided to make compared to the Chrome UI.
Of course, the whole reason for this change is because of Parental Controls for parents so that they can prevent DMing people directly from games. Yeah. Who would have ever seen this coming?
And also the fact that Roblox is also saying you can’t even use your own custom chat, like BetterChatV3, SocialChatV2, etc. is downright outrageous.
Sure, this is fine as there are many alternatives, but for people who rely on this feature, it’s a problem, and believe me, I’ve seen a lot of people using this.
The fact that ALL these API’s are being given to us is an insanely complicated amount.
This Migration should really be halted because after this update, we could be expecting a whole bunch of developers leaving.
And also to all the other Developers out there saying this is a great update, Think.
You can use your own custom chat, it just has to be modified to go through TextChatService’s APIs.
Well, they are relying on LegacyChatService, so it’s not going to be easy.