GBB provides an overview of the endless requests in the chat channels. It detects all requests to the classic dungeons, sorts them and presents them clearly way. Numerous filtering options reduce the gigantic number to exactly the dungeons that interest you. And if that's not enough, GBB will let you know about any new request via a sound or chat notification.
Currently, English, German, French and Russian dungeons are recognized natively. But it is easily possible to adapt GBB to any language.
Usage
GBB searches the chat messages for dungeon requests in the background. To whisper a person, simply click on the entry with the left mouse button. For a "/who" a shift + left click is enough. The dungeon list can be filtered in the settings. You can also fold this by left-clicking on the dungeon name.
Old entries are filtered out after 150 seconds.
Slash Commands
<value> can be true, 1, enable, false, 0, disable. If <value> is omitted, the current status switches.
/gbb notify chat <value> - On new request make a chat notification
/gbb notify sound <value> - On new request make a sound notification
/gbb debug <value> - Show debug information
/gbb reset - Reset main window position
/gbb config/setup/options - Open configuration
/gbb about - open about
/gbb help - Print help
/gbb - open main window
/gbb chat organize/clean - Creates a new chat tab if one doesn't already exist, named "LFG" with all channels subscribed. Removes LFG heavy spam channels from default chat tab
NOTE: If file doesn't download just go to the "File" tab and download from there
This is just an update adding TBC support to an abandoned add-on.
With the addition of support for TBC, probably introduced a ton of bugs.
Please provide feedback on having separate panels for classic and tbc dungeons. With the addition of support for TBC, probably introduced a ton of bugs so comment on that too (50/50 on falling on deaf ears)
New Feature:
New feature introduces that helps organize lfg chat spam.
/gbb chat organize/clean
It will create a new chat tab that has all the spammy lfg channels, it also removes those channels from your default chat tab and it will enable chat notification. This makes all the lfg spam be in a single chat tab that you yourself never have to open. The add-on will do the filtering and notify you on the default chat tab once a match has been found. Or you can just open the add on and see the organized requests.
Known Issues:
BM aka Black Morass showing up under Ramparts
Go to settings -> search patterns -> make sure that only 1 language is checked
LFG Bar is gone
In the settings you have to find something called "Display LFG Bar" you have to checkmark it then reload UI.
Dungeons showing up in the wrong place ie Black Morass
Go to settings -> search patterns -> make sure that only 1 language is checked
Custom Search Pattern issues
There is a bit of confusion on how it works which leads people to believe there is a bug. It basically works like this:
1. Languages + custom selected: this will result in using all of the languages default values AND anything that has been entered manually
2. Only custom selected: it will override with the values have been entered. If fields were left blank then the value is blank
3. Only 1 language selected: it will use the languages default values and ignore anything that has been entered
Credits
Original add-on https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/group-bulletin-board
Arrogant_Dreamer, Hubbotu and kavarus for the russian translation
Baudzilla for the graphics/idea of the resize-code
Hi i have a question does using Quotation marks in the blacklist filter makes it so if lets say the words are in the same message its hidden? or does it work differently?
Example i have filtered "swp trash" will this filter out all swp messages that have trash in them? or will it also filter every message that has trash or swp for every other dungeon raid?
I'm in love with this addon, ty for making it possible! I'm getting a LUA error from time to time, and I think maybe it just happen with an specific message. I'm pasting it so hopefully you can figure out what is happening!
In reply to kancore_atago:
Thanks for sharing that. I am not doing active development on the add-on especially with end of TBC.
To remove the annoying lua errors you can type
/console scriptErrors 0
yes please update we love it! So needed on realms that have tons of people. Also if we could get a guild recruitment bucket that would be great! I tried to set up patterns for a lesser used bucket like say Arathi basin PVP with terms like "guild recruiting progression raid recruit GDKP sun wed tues thurs fri sat buyers BUYERS buyer BUYER" and it doesnt work. In fact I dont think any of the custom search patterns are working unless I'm doing something wrong. I followed the format of the grayed out terms for defaults.
In reply to sentinelhex:
Read the section on custom search patterns to understand how they work. Seems like you are looking for the blacklist feature tho, which is found under search patterns
Can we get updates for this addon :)? Nobody uses the in-game one.
To fix the lag, simply open the GroupBulletinBoard.lua file and replace the following 2 functions:
Additionally, go to RequestList.lua and change line 626-647 with this piece of code:
edit: nevermind
For some reason, I get HUGE lag spikes whenever someone advertises a slave pens boost or just about any other boost, on Benediction-Alliance. Like the game becomes unplayable, it will lag for seconds at a time just frozen. I can't play the game at all unless I disable the LFG Bulletin Board addon. I disabled ALL my addons exceot bulletin board, deleted WTF saved settings folder, reinstalled bulletin board, nothing fixes it. I'm not on a low computer either, AMD 5950X, RTX 3090, 128GB RAM OC'd to 3800MHz. No reason for this kind of lag.
Blizzard announced no LFG in WotLK, so the addon is still needed :)
Also, GF in TBC is trash and is not used by gamebase - all got already used to spamming and monitoring /lfg via addons.
But I got there to actually request a feature and that is "negative filtering".
I would like to enter keywords, like GDKP / WTS / Boost, that when found would filter results out.
I don't understand discontinuing this addon due to the built in LFG tool...no one uses the in-game tool. I can't even find it. Is it really in game?
Can you update for WoW Classic Season of mastery version 1.4.2? Would be awesome, thanks a lot!
please dont abandon it, we suffering from booster spam :(
It's sad you discontinued this as it's showing some heavy errors sometimes. No one on my server uses the LFG system provided in-game.
Vysci , you think that is can be done so the filter can remove stuff on add works like "WTS" "Boost" "booster" and so on because it so hard to look on this days
This is NOT in Prime time
https://imgur.com/a/Wulb14R
Thanks for a really nice addon
I fund a solution my self , put in word in blacklist words
https://imgur.com/a/C4BVcwN
I've lost my mini map button, have tried everything I can think of to get it back but no luck. Only way I can use it is /gbb reset.
Can anyone help me get this mini map icon for GBB back?
is there a way to change how long a message lasts? Currently default is 2 minutes 30 seconds. Which is too long. I want it at about a minute.
can someone please explain to me what i am doing wrong here? i would like bulletin board to ONLY show me groups advertising for a healer.
i have ONLY custom checked in the search patterns,
"heal heals healer" in the search words,
and i've also defined the search terms for each dungeon i am interested in in their boxes.
yet the addon keeps showing me advertisements for parties looking for tanks and dps with no mention of healers, while i can see parties just looking for healers in the LFG tab.
i've double checked my blacklisted words and nothing makes sense about how this is working. what am i missing?
https://imgur.com/a/uG4InFA here is some photo proof of my settings and their results.
In reply to AnUntakenUsername:
did you figure it out