Forever Chatbox

A quieter, modern chat for WoW Forever. One dark, clean window in place of the game's chat windows, with a tab for everyone who whispers you, and a filter that hides gold spam and repeated lines while it keeps what matters to you.

• Tabs: General, Whispers, Guild and Trade/LFG to start with. Right-click a tab to choose what it shows, rename it, move it or close it; + adds one. Drag a tab along the bar to put it where you want it.
• Whispers like a messenger. Everyone who whispers you gets a tab: click it and you are typing to them. The tab shows the talk as bubbles: their lines on the left under their name, yours on the right. Lines sent close together share one time, a longer pause gets a time in the middle. A gold dot shows new talk on a tab you are not looking at.
• Player levels in front of names ([60 Thrall]), coloured like quest difficulty, for your group, guild, friends, /who results, name plates and players you target or point at. Strangers are looked up with a quiet /who, one per key press out of combat, and the answer stays out of your chat.
• Your time format: 14:05, 14:05:09, 2:05 PM or 2:05:09 PM, or no time at all. Click the time of a line to copy it.
• Command suggestions. Type / and a list shows the matching commands with a short help; Up/Down or Tab picks one. With Forever Console loaded it knows its whole catalogue.
• Your font and size, with a preview: the game's chat font, Friz Quadrata, Arial Narrow, Morpheus, Skurri, and every LibSharedMedia font another addon brings.
• The combat log on a tab of the same window.
• Hide the chat completely (a button, a key binding or /fchat quiet): whispers, your name, party/raid and guild lines then come up as small bubbles at the bottom left that fade away. Click one to open the chat on that tab and reply.
• Fades when the mouse is away; the text stays. The last 300 lines come back after a relog.

Less spam, nothing missed

• In public channels, Say and Yell it hides the same line posted again by the same player within a minute, gold sellers, boosts and web addresses, and words you add. Guild, group, whispers and your own lines are never hidden, and the Filters tab lists what was hidden and why.
• Your name and words you watch are coloured, play a sound, flash the taskbar and collect on the Mentions tab.
• Whispers are kept as conversations with a reply box, Battle.net whispers too.
• History keeps the last 2000 lines across sessions, with search and channel buttons.

How to use it

1. Install it and log in: the Forever Chatbox window takes the place of the game's chat at the bottom left.
2. Drag the empty part of the tab bar (or Alt+drag a tab) to move the window, the corner to resize it.
3. The gear opens the Settings tab: time format, levels, font and size, fading, bubbles, command suggestions.

Commands

Good to know

• Made for WoW Forever.
• With Chattynator or another chat window addon on, Forever Chatbox leaves the chat window to it and says so; the filters, mentions, whispers and history still work. /fchat chat off gives the game's chat back.
• Works with Forever Tongues and Forever Console.

Help and feedback

Questions, bugs and ideas are welcome on the Forever Addons Discord: https://discord.gg/KjCvTQtcQr

• #help for questions about setting it up,
• #bug-reports when something is broken (the addon version and the error text help a lot),
• #feature-requests for ideas, and #releases to see every new version first.