You Heard That Right

"Bring back Global Chat" might be the single most repeated request in Clash of Clans history. It's shown up in every feedback survey, every comment section, every "what do you want next" poll Supercell has ever run. On June 15, 2026, as part of the Anime Fury update, Supercell finally said yes.

Just not in the way most players expected.

Global Chat Is Officially Back

Nearly seven years after Supercell pulled Global Chat from Clash of Clans in 2019, it's back in the game, rebuilt from scratch and rolled out as one of the headline features of the Anime Fury Update. Supercell leaned hard into a players-asked-for-it framing for the announcement, and for a feature request this old, that framing actually earns its hype.

If you've been playing since before 2019, you remember what the old version looked like: one giant open chatroom, every player on the planet, all typing into the same feed at once. If you joined after that, you've only heard about it secondhand, usually from a veteran clanmate explaining why finding new clans or chatting with strangers used to be a lot easier.

Either way, the wait is over. The real question is what "back" actually means this time.

Why It Disappeared in the First Place

A bit of context, because it matters for everything that follows: Global Chat wasn't removed because nobody used it. It was removed because too many people used it in ways Supercell couldn't keep up with.

An open, unmoderated chatroom at the scale of Clash of Clans, millions of concurrent players, turns into a magnet for spam, scam links, and content that has no business reaching a player base that includes a lot of younger players. Rather than let that keep spiraling, Supercell shut it down in 2019 and left it shut down for years, even as the requests kept piling up.

That history is the entire reason the new version looks so different.

The New 3-Tier System: Groups, Communities, Town Square

Instead of one giant room, Global Chat now comes in three separate layers, each built for a different size of conversation.

Groups — your crew's space. Player-created chat spaces, similar in spirit to an upgraded Clan Chat. You decide who's in: Public, Invite-Only, or Private. They cap out at 800 members, and once a Group passes 600 people, it has the option to graduate into a Community.

Communities — the big stage. Also player-created, but always public and built for scale, up to 50,000 members. That makes them a serious tool for clan families, recruitment hubs, or content creators trying to build an audience around the game. The trade-off: message history only sticks around for the past 12 hours, so it's a live, rolling conversation rather than a permanent archive, and Family Friendly filtering is always switched on.

Town Square — everyone's in, almost nobody posts. Every player is automatically added to Town Square the moment they log in. It's the one space nobody has to opt into. But it's a broadcast feed, not an open chat. Only Ambassadors (Creators, Community Managers, and Special Guests) can post. Everyone else shows up to react. Think live announcements, sneak peeks, and community moments rather than a place to chat with random Chiefs.

This Isn't the Old Global Chat — And That's the Point

Here's the honest part: if you were hoping for the 2019 experience back exactly as it was, one open room, anyone can post anything, instant access to the entire player base, this isn't that. It can't be. That version is what got shut down in the first place.

What Supercell built instead is more structured, and more restricted in places, clearly designed around the lessons learned from why the original version failed. Posting in the biggest, most visible space is limited to vetted accounts. The largest public tier wipes its own history every 12 hours. Links are blocked outright. None of that is an accident, and none of it is Supercell being stingy. It's the price of bringing this feature back in a form built to last, instead of getting pulled again in another year or two.

Given the alternative was years of "maybe someday," a tiered, moderated version that's actually live beats a perfect version that never ships. Supercell has also been upfront that this is the first version of the system, with more changes likely as the rollout plays out and they see how it holds up.

Who Gets It First: The Rollout Plan

Supercell is easing into this one rather than flipping the switch for everyone at once. For the first two days after launch, only Creators can spin up new Groups. After that window, the feature opens up to every player.

The member caps, 800 for Groups, 50,000 for Communities, aren't necessarily final either. Supercell has said those numbers can scale up over time as they confirm everything holds up under real player traffic.

Staying Safe in the New Chat

Big chat features come with big scam potential, and Supercell built in a handful of safeguards from day one. Every message is reportable, by any player. Links to outside websites can't be shared in chat. Anti-spam rate limiting is active across the board. Communities always run with Family Friendly filtering on, with no opt-out.

Worth repeating in your own clan or Community: Supercell will never ask for your login code, password, or personal details, in chat or anywhere else. If someone offers free Gems or accounts, or pushes you to move the conversation off-platform, that's the scam playbook, not a real offer. Report it and move on.

What It Means for Your Clan

Practically, this is the recruitment and visibility upgrade clan leaders have wanted for years. Building a Community around your clan family, or a Group for your war roster's side chat, finally gives you a built-in space to do it, instead of relying entirely on Discord or third-party tools to find players or talk outside the Clan Chat window.

For everyone else, Town Square is worth checking the next time something big drops in-game. It's not a chat in the traditional sense, but it's the fastest way to catch announcements and community moments as they happen.

Seven years is a long wait. Whether this version sticks around for the next seven is up to how well it holds up at scale, but for a feature most players had written off as gone for good, "back, and built smarter" is a pretty solid outcome.

For the full rundown on everything else that landed with Anime Fury, new troops, hero changes, and more, check out our latest Clash of Clans updates.