Incompatibility with MultiChat on latest versions of Paper

[wm-b]

Confirmation

• My issue isn't already found on the Issue tracker.
• My issue is about PlaceholderAPI and not any expansion or external plugin
• The issue isn't already fixed in a Spigot Release or Development Build.

Type

Plugin/Server Incompatability

What happens?

Since Paper's Adventure API update (build 473 onwards) running MultiChat, one of the best cross-server chat plugins out there at the moment, and PAPI on the same server causes messages containing hex codes sent by players in the general/normal chat to not show up at all.

In a bungeecord setup, these messages do appear on the connected servers except for the one where the message was originally sent. I have submitted this incompatibility to MultiChat as well but it has been a few weeks with no word from them about it.

Expected Behaviour

Messages sent in chat appear as normal.

How to Reproduce

1. Set up a server running any Paper build after build 472. The latest version is fine.
2. Install the following plugins:

• MultiChat
• PlaceholderAPI

3. Set up a bungeecord server with MultiChat installed and point it at the Spigot server.
4. Change the Spigot server into offline mode and set "bungeecord" to true in spigot.yml.
5. Connect through the bungeecord proxy and attempt to send a message that contains a hex colour code. The message will not appear. If you set your MultiChat nickname to something that contains a hex code, this will happen to all of your messages.

/papi dump Output

https://paste.helpch.at/anamecizar

Console Log

https://paste.helpch.at/jogukocuke.md

Errors

No response

Additional Info

https://timings.aikar.co/?id=9100faba406d4898b7573d5f3f6e2353

[Andre601]

I personally doubt that PlaceholderAPI is the cause here, since it usually does nothing related to chat.
The most it would do is translate basic Color codes when setting placeholders in a String which usually shouldn't affect Hex colours that much.

So I guess it's a good idea to wait for the devs of MultiChat to respond on this.

[wm-b]

I'll just stop using PAPI then. I'm sure other big networks using MultiChat are also fed up with being stuck on a paper build from months ago.

[Andre601]

That's... kind of rude man.

All I said is, that PAPI does not really manipulate chat and doesn't change colors except for the default ones from before 1.16.
It shouldn't really do anything here that would suggest this weird behaviour and if it does then it would be a really weird and specific issue to exist.
Your response now sounds extremely arrogant, especially considering you're the only one so far that reported this specific issue without even waiting for a response on MultiChat's end. Perhaps it's their fault? Or perhaps they have an idea what could be the cause in PAPI?

Also, let's be real here for a moment: I'm pretty sure your network isn't "big". And if other "big" networks would be "fed up" with using older builds of Paper would they already report this issue here or on MultiChat and not just keep using old versions.
You just act annoyed right now and that's all.