RuneScape clan chats?

Same here! I've taken so many breaks that i cant even count them anymore, and been driven away from the game by the community a similar amount of times. I managed to find a few chill clanchats but they're mostly ironman specific and quite cancerous in their own "you're doing it wrong" elitist ways whenever I talk about how I've done things.

I've never really had any consistent luck with clanchats, but i've managed to cultivate a friendslist of people always excited to share their progress, or just ask how i'm doing bc it's been a while.

My trick is to just call people noobs randomly. If you're running somewhere, run out of energy, and then someone blitzes past you. Call them a noob as they sprint off into the horizon. It's such a harmless and goofy word that if you follow it up with "jk you're cool" you can wind up chatting to some really great people.

There's some bad eggs that give me shit for my apparent autism (ironman icon) and whatnot, but usually the kinds of people that decide to stop what they were doing to type/ see what's up, are the kind of people you can just have a chill conversation with.

A cc full of tildoes would be pretty chill though i'd imagine, and ~games could be a cancer free place to discuss patchnotes. I can never figure out what the subreddit thinks, what the jmods think, or what's best for the game anymore. There's just too much drama and vitriol going on.

'ru ni' btw

deal with the toxic nature of the game's community

By not reading chat.

It's not a fix, but it is effective in getting away from the nonsense. In the same vein though, removing chat from an MMORPG can easily make the player feel more isolated than they already might from not being in a dedicated community. You could turn off public chat, but you'd want to supplement with a community of like-minded people.

Edit: clarity