I’m very sorry to hear about your experience with ChatSentry. I understand how frustrating and time consuming it can be to deal with server issues like this.
The Bungee vulnerability in the plugin was identified and promptly patched in version 5.6.2 on July 27, 2024. If you were using an earlier version, I highly recommend updating to the latest release as well as reviewing your Auto Punisher & Chat Executor configs to ensure your server is fully secure moving forward.
I’d like to make things right. Please reach out to me through a ticket on my support Discord so we can discuss compensation or any other way I can assist you.
Thank you
Version: 5.6.0
The support will not be the best, but without a doubt, it is the best option on the market and its documentation is detailed enough to not require support.
No support. There is over 100 tickets open in the discord, and I've been waiting 2+ months just for a response about a crash exploit that can be used on any server with this plugin. I would not recommend buying this plugin.
I'm sorry to hear about your poor experience with ChatSentry. Please see my response to the review below and reach out on my support Discord.
Thanks!
Version: 5.5.3
Do not buy this plugin ATM.
Zero support.
If you ping him, he will ignore your chat.
CAUTION: THE PLUGIN HAS MULTIPLE EXPLOIT THAT CAN CRASH YOUR SERVER.
Hi, I apologize for not responding to your concerns as promptly as you expected. With the vast number of inquiries I receive and little time, I've had to adjust how I manage support. Mainly this means that issues that are directly attributable to ChatSentry and can be consistently replicated are prioritized, while edge cases related to server configuration are placed at a lower priority.
To my current knowledge there are no known crash exploits specifically attributable to ChatSentry, but please provide as much information as you can in your ticket and ping me and I will try and get back soon.
Given the significant demand for support and the limited time I have, balancing university and personal life responsibilities has been challenging. Despite this I assure you that I have been doing what I can to address everyone's inquiries. I have publicly communicated my availability for support, emphasizing that while this plugin is mostly offered "as is", I am committed to providing support whenever I can to the best degree. Folk are are also more than welcome and encouraged to reach out to other CS users in the ChatSentry channel on Discord.
The claim that there is zero support and that all inquiries will be ignored is not reflective of my intentions or actions. However I do understand and empathize with your frustration over your poor experience, and I am genuinely sorry to hear that you have encountered issues with the plugin! :(
Version: 5.5.2
The plugin itself is great.
The downside is the support you can wait and wait for.
I have been waiting 2 months for purchase verification on discord.
Chatsentry is excellent! The dev is fast at replying and open to suggestions and implements new features if they fit the resource! It works perfect for my network and is highly configurable. It is the best chat filtering plugin we have used over the years! Worth the buy!
To anyone considering buying ChatSentry, it is TOTALLY worth it!
I have been running Minecraft servers for 12 years and always struggled with chat content moderation. I suffered through writing and finding custom RegEx rules that always seemed to be unreliable. I juggled multiple chat filtering plugins that did different things (and there are a LOT of things to filter in chat!)
In comes ChatSentry. I have been running it on my network for nearly two years and it is SO MUCH better than any plugin I have ever used. Other plugins don't even come close.
I have watched ChatSentry stop complex, targeted, and customized bot attacks. Bot spam and chat flooding just do not happen anymore.
Plus, the profanity filter and customizations available are top notch. It integrates perfectly with complex proxy chat plugins and there are very few false positives.
Thank you to kix for creating this, and I hope my review brings confidence to your purchase of ChatSentry! It is the best money we have spent on my server on a 3rd party plugin.
I'm sorry that you're having issues with the plugin. As announced in Discord, unfortunately I was suddenly admitted to the the ICU at the hospital and was unable to provide any support for about a week.
I'm doing my best to catch up on tickets and provide support now. but am still in recovery. I appreciate your patience.
Version: 5.2.9
Best chat filter plugin on the spigotmc right now. Support is very fast and developer is very friendly
The best chat filter plugin out there, offering tons of features and incredible customization. The plugin is constantly growing, bugs are fixed quickly and suggestions are added, the developer offers outstanding support and is very friendly. The plugin is very lightweight, would definitely recommend it to anyone. Keep up the good work kix!
BUY THIS PLUGIN!! The plugin developer is incredibly helpful and active, and the plugin really does work like magic. As stated above this plugin has multiple modules that are fully developed to help you run the best server that you can!!!!! Also the support discord is very helpful. Well worth the money, you would need to install at least 8 other plugins to get what this one alone gets done!! VERY AWESOME PLUGIN!!
Chatsentry is a fantastic plugin that does an amazing job moderating the chat automatically. I find the "chat executor" feature very useful, as it saves a lot of time answering players questions. The support is also great, and kix is always kind and responds quickly. In my opinion, chatsentry is the best chat moderation plugin out there!
Literally the best chat moderation plugin there is! Once properly configured there's little to no need for chat moderators anymore. Dev is super responsive, I had some suggestions and they got added into the plugin straight away. The greatest plugin I've spent money on so far. I never do reviews on plugins, but I felt the need to do it here because it is so deserved.
Thanks for the review! Java 16 & 1.17 is already supported and should work fine, but if there's any bugs let me know :)
Version: 4.4.4
This is a really good plugin for chat security, you barely need an moderator anymore lol, this plugin is different than other chat plugin, it is just for the chat without any other useless features. Works really good and have no problems with it at all. There is 1 problem with Geyser support but that doesnt make the plugin bad, since this plugin is made for spigot. Keep working on this plugin! Your support is amazingly fast
BUY THIS PLUGIN! This was the single best investment I made into my server. The plugin developer is incredibly helpful and active, and the plugin really does work like magic. I have never seen something like this in 10+ years of running Minecraft servers. Incredible!
This plugin is amazin! I use in on my server and it functions very well! The customer support is also very good as just before I posted this review I had an issue and they helped me fix it! It was a mistake on my part.
ChatSentry is probably the best chat filter on the market! Discord support is very helpful, even if it sometimes takes a couple hours (which is obviously completely understandable, maybe you could get some helpers on discord to help with simple questions?)
My only 2 suggestions are:
- Replacing with detected swear words with **** instead of blocking the whole message. I know this is already being worked on, feel free to remind me on discord to update this review when it's released!
- The default chat filter (from the wiki) has lots of false positives, and I'm still working on replacing words that cause false positives often with exact::word so that it false less. Using the API I coded a plugin that sends violations to discord, so I can keep track of false positives better. Here are some examples of false positives:
- vacuum cleaner --> c*m
- I was muted --> sm*t
- who are you talking to --> ho*r
- quebec literally --> cl*t
- who are you --> ho*re
Basically just lots of false positives similar to this
All in all though, super good plugin, would recommend!
I'm always working on improving the plugin to be the best it can, and helpful feedback like yours is especially helpful, so thank you! I've gone ahead and fixed the false positives you mentioned and pushed the new list out to the site. Feel free to send any other ones you come across as well
I'll keep you posted on the filter censor (***) instead of blocking entirely feature!
Version: 4.2.1
Amazing plugin works as intended and has additional features that are useful too, it is really good but there are still a lot of things that i have to learn about this plugin.
I love this plugin. The developer is very friendly and when I found an issue it was fixed promptly the same day. It has all the features I need and works great. I would recommend.
Are you looking for the smartest chat filter on spigot? This is basically what you're looking for.
Fast, efficient, precise, configurable a lot, this is the solution for pretty much each case scenario, this literally helps reducing toxicity on your servers if you feel the need to reduce it, it takes a bit of time to get a good filter but once you configure it correctly, it becomes the best filter against spammers, advertisers, toxic people and more...
Finally, let me talk about the support for this plugin, in all the times that I've needed help, kix responded in 5-10 minutes on average, which is pretty insane and you can really see that he's dedicated on making the plugin even better, he always listens to suggestions.
Thank you for the extensive review, glad you like it! :)
Version: 4.0.4
Loving it. So easy and fast to configure and complety modular. Toggle off whatever you don't need. Also kixmc is a super friendly and nice developer!:) Bought all of his plugins because all of them are awesome.
Description did not lie it actually works like magic. Smart and simple to use chat management plugin. Developer is pretty quick with requested features implementation and general support.
After going through many free chat protection plugins with difficult configuration that was never perfect, I decided to purchase chatsentry. I had it configured in under an hour and working better than a plugin i spent days configuring. The developer is very quick to respond to any questions I bring up on the discord server. Two big thumbs up!
Incredible plugin with many finely customizable features. Just what I was looking for.
But.
Personally, I really miss only one small function - so that profanity is not completely blocked, but sent slightly changed, such as "f**k"
Consider adding this
I'm always working hard to add new features and improvements to the plugin, and will definitely consider your suggestion. Thanks for the valuable feedback! :)
Version: 1.1.3
The plugin was Good It has all features than I expected, also they were able to fix my issue that is related to towny :) Thank you sir
This is a very powerful that protection plugin that offers the best protection for its price. Dev is responsive to issues and suggestions. Recommend if you need a chat protection plugin!
I switched from another plugin that was overly complex and chat sentry has been easy to configure, super straight forward and support has been awesome on the Discord.
Would definitely recommend if you're after a simple but effective chat protection plugin.