So currently if you want to change chat channels you have to select the channel you want and then log out of the game, and the log back in to get into the channel you want.

This has been a problem for several weeks if not months now.

Yet Plarium has done nothing to fix it, sends worthless things to use because of the problem, yet puts out an event that if people use 180 ancient shards to get a lego.

So they care more about the money they make than fixing the game?

No one wants to spend money on a broken game.