As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to effectively use TextChannel with the channel bar. There are two missing features that I would find useful here
The first of the two properties is DisplayName, right now the channel bar reads the Name of the TextChannel directly and pushes it to the channel bar. There’s something that makes RBX channels get handled differently, but it’d be better if this was handled from a property that I can customise.
The problem here is if we want to use a more programatic approach to channel names, which looks like what happens especially with RBXTeam and RBXWhisper, it would appear as the internal name we give it instead of the name we want it to display with.
The other property is Visible, all channels you’re a member of appear in the default chat window. Since we must use TextChatService now for all chat features, it’d be nice to hide certain channels from the channel bar, for example, if rendering chat in a different window, for things like a phone call, for example, this could additionally stop /c swapping into these hidden channels.
Both of these tasks can be implemented with a custom chat window, but this is a lot of excess work for something that should really be a builtin part of TextChatService.
If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my development experience because it would provide better usage for TextChannel with the Channel Bar.