Update on Legacy Chat Deprecation and TextChatService Migration

[ShinyGriffin]

TextChatService’s new Channel Tabs are very bugged. I have made 3 bug reports about it that are still open:

TextChannel's channel tab does not disappear when player's TextSource is removed from a TextChannel

When a player TextSource is removed from a TextChannel with :Destroy() when ChannelTabs is enabled, the TextChannel’s tab UI is still visible in the player’s chat and the player is able to send ‘ghost messages’ to the chat that do not have a username and can’t be seen by other players. Reproduction Steps: Create a TextChannel in TextChatService Add a TextSource to the TextChannel with TextChannel:AddUserAsync(player.UserId). This will cause the channel tab for the TextChannel to appear in the…

If two TextChannels have the same name, players in one of them are able to see the text in the other, but are not able to chat

If two TextChannels are created with the same name, and one player is in one channel, and one player is in the other, the first player is able to see the text sent to the other channel, but is not able to communicate. They can write text, but the text cannot be seen by anyone. Steps: Create 2 TextChannels with the same name and turn on ChannelTabs. In multiplayer play test mode, have one player join one channel, and another player join the other. Have the players type in the text channels. On…

Player can no longer chat if they were in a TextChannel that has been destroyed

When channel tabs are enabled, if a player’s TextSource is in a TextChannel, and the TextChannel gets destroyed while the player is still tabbed into the channel, the player will no longer be able to chat at all, and this warning appears: TextChatService is not enabled. Check TextChatService.ChatVersion and make sure it is not set as ChatVersion.LegacyChatService. Steps: Enable TextChatService and ChannelTabsConfiguration. Create a TextChannel and add a player to the TextChannel with TextChan…

Will these all be fixed before TextChatService is mandatory? These bugs make it extremely difficult to use the basic features of Channel Tabs