social

Information

social 🦜 is a fully modular plug-in focused on enhancing your server's communication without affecting the gameplay experience.
It is developed using modern APIs, providing a simple but powerful tool for server owners and developers.
Everything can be configured, including messages.

🤔 Features

• Fully compatible with MiniMessage and PlaceholderAPI to have great-looking messages
• Channel-based chat provider. You can add or remove channels according to your server's needs. For example, you could have a global and a staff channel
• Reactions that appear above a player's head with nice animations
• Chat replies and threads. Players can click on a message to reply to it.
• Group chat channels. Players can create their own group channel with /group. Server owners can see group messages with Social Spy.
• Emoji support in a very similar way as Discord: :emoji_name:
• Mentions that work with usernames and nicknames.
• Server links. Available since Minecraft 1.21, server links are a great way of sharing external resources with your players in the pause menu.
• Built-in announcements with a configurable interval. Can broadcast messages through the action bar
• Private messages with social spy for staff members
• Advanced text formatting with bold, italics, underline and more options
• Chat filters that block IPs, URLs or words. Even in private messages
• Flood/spam prevention
• Developer-friendly API with countless possibilities. Developers can add custom channels, reactions, emojis, filters, keywords...
• No dependencies

⚠️ Compatibility chart

🔌 Integrations

🏷️ PlaceholderAPI

• Compatible with every placeholder added by PlaceholderAPI.

💬 DiscordSRV

• Compatible with chat channels

🐷 banco

• Adds keyword [balance] to show balance amount in chat.

➕ Official add-ons

👤 social-chatheadfont

• Provides compatibility with ChatHeadFont.

Usage

🔧 First run

When you run social for the very first time it will automatically generate two files:

• 'settings.yml' contains general settings
• 'messages.yml' contains configurable messages

You can disable any feature by modifying settings.yml

✏️ Key concepts

💬 Parsers

social provides a set of powerful built-in tools in the form of parsers. Parsers are rules that modify text accordingly. Here's a list of parser types: