I am surprised that the text chat system is still so broken, there have been tiny changes but it is still far from perfect. My main concern (irritation) is when moving between places, i.e moving from Ramsgate to the airship, from the airship to the battle, after battles, after trails battle back to retry screen, etc etc. You can type something and if the screen changes, you lose everything you typed. The text chat system should be overlayed over the game its self, not refreshed at every screen change...as to stop it from vanishing your text you have entered. It is extremely annoying.
2:The text while been typed should follow the flashing indicator, so when typing that you can see the last word you wrote.
3: also the background of new messages is like a light grey colour (when selected)with purple text, it does not make for easy reading, maybe try a dark back colour with a bright text colour.
4: people coming online should be a half opacity white and maybe a different font, its info but dire info, unlike a message/whisper.
text is the main way for people to communicate and should be fixed.