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I think it would be nice to have a plugin or a feature to be able to choose a person and their messages get highlighted on chat. I think this would be useful a lot for being able to easily see when your team talks to you or if you are trying to have a conversation with someone. I find myself missing messages directed to me often when there is a lot of people on the server spamming the chat so this would be pretty useful for those situations. Let me know what you all think.

This is possible using improved chat.

What’s improved chat?

It's a client side mod.

Apparently it's not being updated anymore, looks like the new chat mod is Chat Tweaks https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/chat-tweaks (I haven't tried it myself.)

I really like this idea and already understand it is in motion. I also think it'd be nice to have the option to turn the chat completely off and only receive private messages. Also, is there a way to see a list of people you have /ignored?

I don't believe there's any work in progress to do any of this on the server side, but if there's something you want that's not possible using the client mod I linked above, then we can talk about it.

You can change your Chat settings to only get command output, I believe that'll still show PMs but it will not show public chat.

You can get a list of people you've ignored by doing /ignore.