Since Trade chat is so full of crafting stuff now, it’s almost impossible to talk about anything else. Can a new channel for crafting orders be created on all realms so Trade can get back to what it used to be?
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This is an odd request. It sounds like people are using Trade for its intended purpose. I don’t support making a separate “crafters-only” channel.
What I can support is a General chat channel that covers the same range (all major cities) as Trade currently does.
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Same difference IMO. That would totally work.
General chat doesn’t show all cities? Wow I didn’t know what, it should definitely work this way.
It’s actually worse than “per-city.” It’s “per-shard” too. For example, just because you post something in /1 in Valdrakken doesn’t mean everyone else in Valdrakken will see it. Only those who are in your particular shard will see /1.
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Trade is for trade not chatting so its being uses for its intended purposes
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What else would you talk about in trade chat (that makes sense) besides. . .trades?
Politics? That’s what it’s for.
Shouldn’t the request be to be a new channel for trolling so trade can actually be used for player trade related discussions?
Asking questions about game related things like we’ve been doing for all the years I’ve played. Help with quests or anything else relating to the game. Used to be reasonably easy and quick, but on some realms now the crafting posts fly by so fast you miss anything else.
That’s fair. But it’s also called “Trade Chat”, stuff you’re talking about probably belongs in “General Chat”.
Not that I care either way, to be honest. Talk about whatever you want to, wherever you want to! 
Yes, just create a trade-like chat that covers the same places. Call it “Thunderfury chat”.
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Since crafting orders aren’t locked to a specific faction how about we give them a general chat and make trade chat cross faction.
I don’t believe this is the case. I’ve had conversations with people in general chat who were in a different shard. I know this, because when they’d join group with me, because we couldn’t find each other in the same spot in the city so that I could trade something to them, they would suddenly shard in beside me.
Oh, it is the case. It also applies to General channels outside of cities too that are sharded. This is why zones and chat can feel very dead at times. Not for a lack of players playing the game, but because General is disjointed. A lively shard tends to lead to a lively chat, and a dead shard tends to lead to a dead chat.
On a daily basis I’ll have multiple toons logged in and sitting in Valdrakken. I’ll routinely see /1 conversations on one client and not the other, and vice versa. Generally it’s the “full” shard that has the most chatter.
Trade chat isn’t sharded the way General is. Trade chat is all-shards-all-cities across an entire realm/connected realm set. If you were meeting up to trade with someone then I’d be more inclined to believe that you’re recalling conversations from Trade chat rather than General.
And it has not been the case for me within general chat in cities.
I never said it was. 
Edit to add that this is from an article on sharding and how it’s bad:
So even if a realm was heavily sharded, we knew tons of players were on the realm because they were talking. Many players asked in the chats several times, “Where is everybody? I know you guys are there.”
And this is from WoW Classic, which while it is layering, the chat system for sharding and layering is the same and is the same coding and functionality in both versions of the game:
Did someone say…[Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker].