I'm not sure the best route (not unique channels a la D2) but I think it'd be a great addition to have a global channel, not announcement style, to communicate within the game.
Maybe 1. Climbs 2. Maps 3. Sneaky Help...
I'm not a programmer, but maybe a small icon similar to discord that would (!) when someone sent a message. If nothing else, I think it'd go hand in hand with the likely upcoming "Group Name" update. The /msg and exclusive Group chat is limited to using the game's tools to see if anyone is even around you... you don't see people that are logged in within a certain time of afk.
Most of us don't even look for group climbs outside of discord, but this would be useful and potentially help growth within the community.

Seems like a good ideal, voted yes may help some people

But like you said 99% of the climbs i do are from discord and/or guild thread

I like where this idea is going.

I think clarification of this suggestion is in order.

Will it be sent to all players that are active, or will there be a code that prevents the message to be sent to players already in a group?
Because - if I am involved in a Mirror Maze, for example, I would become highly irritated at a message for ''help'',
I would even classify it as spam as it would very likely interfere with game play

just need a mute button or have to enter a special channel for it would be nice imo

Already have a ''mute'' button -- known as DND -- shuts out everybody, but also prevents you from sending any msgs

I would like to see a DND function installed similar to D2, where you can shut up a single individual,
without adversely affecting your own communications needs

Enabled/Disabled/Muted with "[x] Global" in the Log window.
Small icon at the top of the screen that would show (4) for 4 unread global messages, wouldn't even pop up in your screen like normal chat. You'd have to open the Global Log.
For muting players, open Global Log, click their name for options to message/mute.

This post was edited by FloppyWaffles on Aug 2 2021 05:48am

This would definitely be nice.

Bring back the Old ye Pub?

This would be a good tool for building community. In some of the private/emu EverQuest servers they enable global chat until population regularly logged in reaches >X active players (something like 500).

With ~50-100 people typically on at a time on LS I think this could be fun.