Why does no chat appear at all when I turn off "CreateDefaultTextChannels" in TextChatService?

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A solution for hiding team-change messages was turning CreateDefaultTextChannels off, but it’s not showing any chat at all, even player chats…

If there’s another solution for hiding team-change messages, I’d also like to know

Chat version: TestChatService

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By settting CreateDefaultTextChannels to false, when players join they will no longer have any valid TextChannels to send to so naturally they will be unable to send or recieve messages. Re-enable CreateDefaultTextChannels to fix players being unable to chat.

A solution I have just tried seems to work. When the client recieves a message, it will check its metadata (all system messages with the “You are now on the ‘XY’ team” have the same metadata), and modify its contents to a single whitespace. This causes it to not be displayed.

LocalScript (make sure this doesn’t conflict with any code elsewhere which also uses TextChatService.OnIncomingMessage)

game:GetService("TextChatService").OnIncomingMessage = function(Message)
	if Message.Metadata == "Roblox.Team.Success.NowInTeam" then
		local TextChatMessageProperties = Instance.new("TextChatMessageProperties")
		TextChatMessageProperties.Text = " "
		return TextChatMessageProperties
	end
end
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