Chat and channels

Hydrogen formats chat using the active rank and tag, and applies mutes, slow mode and filtering.

Default format: <rank> <activeTag> <player>&7: &f<message>.

Channel Commands Permission
Staff /staffchat, /sc hydrogen.command.staffchat
Admin /adminchat, /ac hydrogen.command.adminchat
Developer /devchat, /devc hydrogen.command.developerchat
Management /managementchat, /managechat, /mc hydrogen.command.managementchat

Use /sc hello to send once, or /sc to toggle that channel. Mutes also restrict staff chat.

/chat delay <seconds> enables chat slow mode; 0 disables it. Edit filter.yml for word filtering. /broadcast <message> sends an announcement. Blocked commands require hydrogen.cmdblock.bypass to bypass.

Without Redis, staff chat remains local to each Paper instance.