[WaifuApple]

Once upon a time, a fix was done to opening up the text box to write big posts with it in stuff like say and emote, to allow the white bubble that informs people you're writing to appear for this - and this was nice for making it so that you wouldn't have to manually do so, avoiding people thinking you just weren't there.

This change, however, does not seem to have made it to doing the same in emote-full, and I consider this a bug because I feel like that wouldn't be intended behaviour.

[Neus]

Unfortunately this is the result of some very odd BYOND behavior that I haven't managed to pin down. If you use some of the communication verbs by popping up the box via just typing the verb name (ie, only emote-full), it won't show the typing indicator. If you instead type it and hit space (so it gives you emote-full "), it will show the typing indicator.

I'm not sure why say and emote behavior differently, to be quite honest.