How is it even possible that `print` in a server-side script prints to client's chat?

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The second pic is server.lua, so I have no idea how it’s possible that when I run the command, it’s not printing anything to the server console, but it prints the playerdata in my chat??

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Its message routing, anything that’s printed via commands will get displayed to the client. You can probably write a print wrapper to get around this as it only prints to the client if its on the same frame.

See:

function cprint(...)
    CreateThread(function()
        Wait(0)
        print(...)
    end)
end

I personally don’t like the fact that commands print route to the client client as weird work arounds are needed to print information to the server, and it also causes a lot of confusion

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YOU are a Godsend my friend. I have been looking for an answer to this for a long time… The amount of times I’ve wanted to add server prints to a command to log an issue or report abuse of a command has been numerous. Thank you for sharing this knowledge.