Profanity filter

[Oganesson]

Will we ever see changes to this outside of the progression of updates?
The current profanity filter can be annoying as it unintentionally censors letters if they’re used in a certain sequence even if they’re part of an actual word.

I mean if it’s really that integral to the overall 2004 feel, then so be it.

[Izual]

It’s taken directly from the cache. So overtime it’ll be less obtrusive just as it originally was given some slack. But it’ll be a long while.

[Smaazk]

Can be annoying but it’s A U T H E N T I C, back to a** magic trees

[Jordan]

Censorship & better communication

Good evening, I am one of the major collaborators to the effort, and directly responsible for implementing the filtering system onto the server. I am here to clear any misinformation about this and how this works. To begin with, there are 2 ways the game does filter chats. Client sided filtering Server sided filtering. Client Sided Filtering: To save on processing and data usage, Jagex in 2004 would automatically filter chats that YOU type into your own game client. This is because the cl…