I've heard a few people talking about how they don't like the force changes in chat and personally it makes me a little obsessive over checking which chat i'm in all the time while switching worlds/realms.

So my suggestion was that Local chat should be default unless you change it. If you enter another world/realm it should go force back to default that way if you do forget you won't be messaging the whole town world and then again in general.

The people I spoke with about it wanted general to be default but personally I thought local would be better at keeping people from repeating themselves in multiple channels and de-clutter the general chat.

If the default chat was general it would also help people to talk to newer members and help them with the server instead of them sometimes spawning in and talking in Town World chat and not getting replies.

Hope you consider this as it would benefit the moderators and prefects by lowering their load on chat moderation.