Ringer

Ringer Changelog
2.17.4 (2026-07-15)
Heartbeat chip: a tiny movable proof-of-life ("14 listed - 9s ago")
that appears only while the Ringer window is closed - gold when sweeps
are answering, amber with the reason when stale. Click opens Ringer,
drag moves it, right-click hides it (/ringer hud brings it back).
The minimap bell pulses softly each time a sweep is answered.
Minimap right-click toggles Ringer on/off (bell grays out while
disabled); footer buttons resized and balanced.

2.17.0 (2026-07-14)
Rebranded: Arena Radar is now Ringer - new bell icon and art, /ringer
command (/ringer still works). Same addon, same author, new name.
The hands-off release: the Blizzard LFG window is never needed again.
Open Ringer (/ringer) once per session and sweeping starts - no LFG
window, no category clicks, no refresh button, ever. The addon arms its
own arena search at login, satisfies the client's window requirement
invisibly and silently during each sweep, and stays completely dormant
until you open Ringer.
Full rosters everywhere: member names, classes, and roles for every
listing read straight from the LFG data - no more hovering to learn who
is in a group.
New Favorites tab: every current listing from players you've favorited
(right-click any row), independent of your filters - and favorites fire
a raid warning + distinct horn the moment they appear in LFG, even when
nothing matches your criteria.
New "Trust LFG role tags" option: when a player's self-assigned LFG
role contradicts their armory spec (they respecced), the tag wins for
matching and the row is flagged "listed Healer".
Multi-bracket listings fixed: players listing 2v2+3v3+5v5 at once now
match and display in every bracket they list ([2v2/3v3/5v5] tags) -
previously they could vanish entirely.
Smarter sections: matched players live in Matches only (no Solo
duplicates); blank filters browse everything quietly; Reset clears all
result lists instantly.
Layout: more room for results, four result tabs, watermark fits the
window instead of a zoomed crop; rating boxes click-to-clear with
"any" / "no max" placeholders; larger sound button.
Deep fixes: search-argument persistence across /reload (background
sweeps had been silently degraded after every reload), a sweep-driver
timestamp deadlock, and a window-state check that misread a child
frame - together these were why data had only ever flowed with the LFG
window open.
Diagnostics: /ringer sweepdiag traces one search end-to-end; /ringer
routediag traces every sweep decision for 60 seconds.

2.12.0
Release build. Guaranteed fresh sweeps riding normal gameplay input,
with a live heartbeat and measured server cadence in the footer.
Sync system: background daemon fetches armory profiles for every
LFG-seen player within seconds of a reload; one-click in-game Sync
with a printed verdict; special-character names fully supported.
Alert stack: sound, raid warning, low-health-style screen flash,
sticky starred rows that hold position.
Member-name harvesting from Blizzard's tooltip; per-member ratings;
new-players-welcome icons; exact leader identification.
Rating parser hardened against UI escape codes, redacted comments,
and gearscore false-positives; labeled ratings ("1506 cr") take
priority.
Quality of life: Tab between rating fields, Enter to confirm; window
remembers open state across reloads; focus releases on outside
clicks.

2.5 - 2.11
Iterative development: single-window UI, watchlist pipeline, tooltip
harvest, trend arrows, bracket tags, ladder floors, flight-recorder
diagnostics.