GODMODE Messenger — 2.0.6

Classic Era & TBC Classic

Major Messenger update bringing the Classic/TBC edition in line with the new GODMODE Messenger experience, together with extensive stability and performance improvements.

Messenger & HUB

• Added the modern GODMODE Messenger HUB.
• Improved Direct Messages, Guild, Party, Raid and channel organization.
• Added Favorites and improved Recent Conversations.
• Added conversation search, unread indicators and message previews.
• Added persistent conversation tabs.
• Fixed incoming channel traffic stealing the currently selected conversation.
• Fixed HUB opening the wrong conversation.
• Fixed removing a Direct Message causing the HUB to jump to Trade/Services.
• Improved right-click conversation menus.
• Added smarter Join Channel / Exit Channel actions.
• Added Remove From Recents.
• Improved channel colors and identification.
• Added sender class icons where information is available.
• Improved clickable item, spell and player links.

GODMODE Chat

• Improved the integrated GODMODE Chat system.
• Added sticky chat destinations in the ALL tab.
• /g, /trade, /general, /lfg, /services, /world, numbered channels and other destinations remain selected until changed.
• Dedicated channel tabs always remain assigned to their own channels.
• Fixed chat destination unexpectedly returning to /say.
• Fixed duplicate/unnecessary chat refresh operations.
• Improved high-traffic channel handling.

Message Vault & History

• Improved Message Vault.
• Fixed Copy Conversation using the wrong history source.
• Fixed empty/black Copy Conversation windows.
• Fixed Clear History not clearing the real stored conversation.
• Removed redundant visible Copy as BBCode controls.
• Added safe limits for very large conversation exports.
• Fixed large Copy/BBCode operations potentially freezing the WoW client.
• Improved saved conversation naming.
• Existing GODMODE/WIM history and SavedVariables remain compatible.

Favorites, Mute & Social Tools

• Fixed Favorites not always appearing or counting correctly.
• Favorites remain accessible independently of Recent conversations.
• Added proper local Mute behavior.
• Muted conversations no longer generate GODMODE sounds, unread alerts or automatic popups.
• Blizzard Ignore remains available separately for game-level player blocking.
• Improved Quick Player Actions and social controls.

UI & Customization

• Improved Messenger layout and spacing.
• Improved bottom HUB controls.
• Improved emoticon controls.
• Added expanded More Emotes panel.
• Improved Text Color controls.
• Added proper close buttons to popup panels.
• Fixed Messenger background/theme not restoring correctly after /reload.
• Saved appearance, window position and sizing continue to persist.

Classic / TBC Compatibility

• Classic Era and TBC Classic use the same GODMODE Messenger codebase and interface.
• Removed Communities from Classic/TBC because the required modern WoW Community APIs are unavailable there.
• Removed Discord integration and its unused event handling from Classic/TBC.
• Cleaned the Classic/TBC HUB navigation accordingly.
• Battle.net functionality remains available where supported.
• Preserved existing SavedVariables and conversation history.

Czech & European Language Fix

• Fixed {} / missing-character symbols appearing with Czech and other European text.
• Improved support for characters such as č, ř, š, ž, ě, á, í, é.
• Classic/TBC now uses Blizzard's compatible WoW chat font as the safe default.
• Existing users stuck on the incompatible old default font are migrated automatically.
• User-selected custom fonts remain preserved.
• Improved font fallbacks throughout Messenger and GODMODE Chat.

Performance / FPS / CPU

Extensive optimization pass specifically targeting busy cities, Trade/LFG traffic, raids, dungeons and combat.

• Reduced unnecessary full HUB refreshes.
• Background conversations now use lightweight updates.
• Active chat windows append new messages instead of repeatedly rebuilding the entire chat history.
• Fixed repeated 1000-message table shifting that could become increasingly expensive.
• History buffers now trim old messages in batches.
• Optimized GODMODE Chat's live message buffer.
• Removed duplicated unread/tab refresh processing.
• Existing Messenger tabs no longer repeatedly save and recalculate their entire layout for every incoming message.
• Reduced unnecessary SavedVariables writes during high-volume chat.
• Avoided repeatedly restyling the complete tab strip when a background tab is already unread.
• Added short Battle.net contact caching to reduce repeated full friend-list enumeration.
• Removed duplicate public-channel registry processing.
• Combat history now uses more efficient batched trimming.
• Combat UI updates remain batched.
• UNIT_COMBAT remains filtered where the client supports it.
• Minimap frame updates only run while the minimap button is actively being dragged.
• Messenger animations stop their update handler when finished.
• No unnecessary permanent background OnUpdate loops were added.
• Additional cleanup of unused modern-client event handling from the Classic/TBC build.

Stability

• Multiple safeguards added around chat, history and UI refresh operations.
• Reduced unnecessary work during rapid incoming messages.
• Improved behavior in heavily populated cities and high-volume public channels.
• Improved behavior during dungeon, raid and combat activity.
• Preserved all existing Messenger functionality while reducing background processing.