Old Chat System - LegacyChatSystem converted to TextChatService API

[AdvancedOpenGL (charlie)]

New update:

• Fixed a race condition I found that leads to chat erroring and not working if it loads before the new topbar (never happens with the old topbar since it completely loads before game scripts start)

[Bulldo344 (LawMixer)]

Is TextChannels with commands possible with this?

[AdvancedOpenGL (charlie)]

Kinda, channels outside of team and general arent implemented but commands work fine

[AdvancedOpenGL (charlie)]

Migrate to TextChatService: Removing Support for Legacy Chat and Custom Chat Systems

Normally I would do shameless self promo for this but theres a solid 50/50 that this change breaks it too. Anyway that out of this side, WHY??? TextChatService has become bloated (even when its technically hidden!) which causes many issues on low end devices. Another issue is that TextChatService doesn’t have most of the features of legacy chat. LegacyChat’s APIs were the ONLY way to hook into the chat button and redirect it to our chat interfaces. I, someone who made a frontend for the ne…

Theres a chance this system WILL need to get updated in your games by at least January when I work out a fix for relying on a few legacy APIs (if roblox actually provides replacements to get your own chat button which I feel they won’t)

I may have to end up relying on TopbarPlus and completely “disabling” chat with SetCoreGuiEnabled which will break any script relying on SetCore to customize the chat system but will bring better performance since ExperienceChatMain will be disabled

Because roblox is roblox, you’ll most likely have to update ~January (though I’ll most likely migrate this to a package to make future updates and fixes easy)

[AdvancedOpenGL (charlie)]

Pushed an update to move chat icons to TopbarPlus v3 and now Chat is always “disabled” with SetCoreGuiEnabled (may improve performance)