I think it's funny and awesome that you made a comment abou the chat tab feature. I was just talking about this to a friend yesterday and it was my first thought upon playing the game on my first day. Chat tabs are very common in mmos and such and FH should not be any different. They. Are. A. Must. But not so much just particular ones, making your own as well.
I know this is going to be a silly comparison, but in World of Warcraft you can make up a lot of your own chat tabs. When you first start out there two they give you. One for all chat, one for all battle actions. As you get a grasp for the game you can make new windows where it only has one specific chat and less things get lost. I had a specific guild tab, a party tab, and my general/trade/local defense tab. I even had a specific one for whispers as well as a lot of mods to kind of keep chat clean and I don't miss anything.
Also resizing the chat box would be super <333
I share your frustration Red about the animations. I feel like there could be more. Half the emotes focus on swinging your body around as a dance. While... amusing as it is, that seems very limited. If I had a better concept for game making I would love to help with this and devote my time to making these. I'm very interested in game design, just can't pay for the classes right now xD