New In-Experience Text Chat System Public Release!

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Hi, with respect to some of your points:

  1. Channel tabs are non-existent.
    We’re continuing our development on this and are currently finalizing UI/UX for the tabs with consideration for some of our other future features for the in-experience chat UI and TextChatService.
  2. Inability to use TextChannel:DisplaySystemMessage() from the server.
    We introduced this architecture so developers can be explicit with messages sent to each client. As you are well aware, Roblox has to accommodate a wide range of users needing to follow a variety of set of policies (which is why we offer TextService:FilterStringAsync and PolicyService to better serve appropriate policy-abiding content to all of your users). For example, a particular system message might be okay for a certain age group but not okay for another, younger group. If we made this function server-sided then it is more likely messages may be not appropriately served to users while considering different policies. I understand the increase in complexity from the developer’s perspective (as you need to add a RemoteEvent to trigger DisplaySystemMessage on the client from the server) but we brought this architecture to encourage better practices of user-specific and appropriate messages (and also to consider other needs such as user-region specific, localized system messages, of which processing would ideally be done on the client-side based on each client’s needs).
  3. Inability to have a non-player speaker, thus the inability to send messages from the server.
    We’re currently working on a more formal, streamlined set of APIs to better accommodate this need. Thank you for your patience as we continue to work on this.
  4. No documentation on how to create a chat channel. I had to figure it out on my own.
    We’re planning on working on a separate TextChannel usage article when channel tab work is finished, although we did recently add more higher-level documentation for TextChatService as well: In-Experience Text Chat System | Roblox Creator Documentation.
  5. Inferior command processing system which will require major rework on my part.
    Please read my response to a similar feedback here: New In-Experience Text Chat System Public Release! - #282 by SubtleShuttle

If you have any additional questions, please post on TextChatService is now the default for new experiences!, which is being more actively monitored for feedback. Thank you.

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