zChat

A rewrite. Replace the jar and restart: your zChat 2 config is carried forward, and the old file is kept as config.yml.bak-v1. A zChat 1.x config can't be carried forward: it's kept as config.yml.old, and a fresh config is written.

Needs Paper 1.21.11 or newer (Purpur and Folia too) and Java 21. zChat 2 ran on 1.20.6 and newer.

Everything applies on reload

• /zchat reload now applies every setting. Turning a command on or off, its aliases and permission no longer need a restart. The mute, hidden chat and reply targets last through it.
• A config file that isn't valid YAML no longer loses your settings: zChat says where the error is and keeps running with the settings it had (or the defaults, at startup) until it's fixed.
• /zchat reload says how many settings fell back to their defaults, and /zchat info shows which commands are on, whether an update is out, and any config problems. /zc is short for /zchat.

New

• A smarter filter. words are matched as whole words, so innocent words like class are left alone, and with smart: true (the default) the filter also catches s p a c e d, b4dw0rd, baaadword, bädword, full-width letters and invisible characters. It censors exactly what was typed. Colour tags can't hide a word from it. patterns still take regular expressions.
• Anti-repeat: stops a player sending the same, or nearly the same, message again within 30 seconds.
• Mentions: a player's name in chat is highlighted and pings them. @everyone for players with zchat.mention.everyone.
• Private messages: /msg (replacing Minecraft's /msg, /tell and /w, selectors included on Paper), /reply and /socialspy. The filter applies to them.
• /togglechat remembers a player's choice when they rejoin (togglechat.remember).
• A theme at the top of the config: a prefix and four colours zChat's own messages use. If you never changed a zChat 2 message, it gets the new look; any you changed are kept.
• An update checker, and bStats anonymous usage statistics. See Privacy for exactly what each sends, and how to turn them off.

Changed

• The zchat.group.* permissions no longer go to operators by default. Give your ranks their group permission; an operator no longer gets the admin format just for being an operator.
• PlaceholderAPI values now go into a format as text, after it's read, so a placeholder showing something a player chose, such as a nickname, can't add clickable links or hover text to chat. %placeholders% in formats work as before.
• <displayname> keeps a nickname's colours but not its clicks or hovers.
• Mentions ping, and messages count toward the cooldown and anti-repeat, only once no other plugin has cancelled them.
• /clearchat sends its blank lines as one message rather than one per line.
• The example filter.patterns are now example words. If you still had zChat 2's badword1 and badword2 patterns, they're replaced; your own patterns are kept.
• Each chat line is drawn once and the same line sent to everyone who sees it.
• cooldown.seconds can have decimals.
• Players you can't see count as offline for /msg and tab completion, so vanished staff stay hidden.