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hud_saytext_time X
is the time which it takes for the chat to fade out.

“say” opens the chat area iirc.

As Waebi said, try rebinding your ‘y’ key to ‘say’ :

In console type ‘bind “y” “say”‘ without the apostrophes, and it should work.

I want my chat back

Rename your cfg and run with standard, see if that works. If not, reinstall tf2.