Complete chat box replacement

[DevTeam] [Zeke]: I love that I get emailed when someone reports spam on the boards, but I can't do anything about it.
[DevTeam] [Nachonut]: lol i got you
[DevTeam] [Astaldo]: How about "hide email address from public checked" and it's still visible in all my posts...
[DevTeam] [Astaldo]: I'd delete my account on this site, but by the time I realized the problem half the spambots on the planet had it already
[Developer] [Pazza]: Astaldo if you log out and view your profile with a refresh you'll see that your email is hidden.
[Developer] [Pazza]: Your user level on the forums permit you to see emails even though they are marked hidden.
[DevTeam] [Astaldo]: Ah.. thanks for the clarification and apologies for "crying wolf" in that case :
[DevTeam] [Kaidenn]: PAZZA! i miss you.
[DevTeam] [Nachonut]: Lol, it's funny how it takes spam message reports to get me to come back
[DevTeam] [sylvanaar]: Check out the beta tester forum. Need alpha testers and feedback so I can come up with a maintenance plan.
[Developer] [Pazza]: loaded some new spam prevention modules... lets see if this stops the bastards.
[DevTeam] [Maziel]: Thought I'd check in and say Howdy Doody from Australia
[DevTeam] [Maziel]: Yeah the spam from shoes salesmen was becoming insane
[Guest] [Delakando]: What ever happened to the ability to track friend's location by wim? Other then just showing their general zone location.
Zeke pokes his head around the corner.
[DevTeam] [Zeke]: Anybody home?
[Guest] [Theillur]: I would like to know if it is just me.
[Guest] [Theillur]: http://www.wimaddon.com/forums/index.php/topic,1796.0.html
[Guest] [Nev]: I'm here
[Guest] [Nev]: I don't think anyone else is though
[Guest] [tomasio]: great site [url=http://freeonlinemusicvideos.net].[/url] [url=http://freepeopleclothing.org].[/url]
[Guest] [Theillur]: Nev it is not working for Zeke as well.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: im here
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: ...
lothaer yawns sleepily.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: sooooooooooooooooo
[Guest] [j3ff]: Hello. It is very quiet. I would love a response to my thread directly below your "Been very quiet" thread!
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: Check out my new post in the Skins forum
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: Posted a new download in the skins forum check it out
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: Zeke, Maziel, Pazza, Nachonut, sylvanaar, Kaidenn, Astaldo where are you?
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: It would be a real shame if WIM was left to die.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: i think these forums are dead, Sylvanaar dosnt post on them as he only bug fixes when possible. WIMs future isnt very bright
[Guest] [justgiz]: Yea, its rather sad.
[Guest] [silvercola]: I wish it had skype
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: noy possible for a addon to do.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: ...........
[Guest] [elzershark]: where is the download file?
lothaer beckons everyone over to you.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: has anyone been able to take WIM to the beta yet?
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: PTR*
[DevTeam] [Maziel]: *sticks head up and looks around*
lothaer cries.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: who the hell flagged my post as spam?
[Guest] [primalforce]: Hey guys
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: hello Primalforce.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: PAZZA COME BACK!!!
[DevTeam] [Nachonut]: Ahhh memories
[Guest] [Ignis]: wtb update
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: soooo.....
Pazza starts to complain... Kinda reminds you of Sloans dont it?

[darkorical]

With the ability to include full channels in windows WIM is almost a complete replacement for my chat window but it still needs a few (seemingly) small things

1. Ability to turn off  the auto hide completely
2. The ability to show system messages. "Bill has come online"  "Your group has disbanded"
3. Show loot rolls. and who looted what
4. Show Raid warnings (SCT makes this optional)
5. Ability to completely lock and force the spawn location of the tabs
6. The ability to completely turn off the default chat system

this would make my day

[Zeke]

While all those things sound great, it comes down to this: WIM, aka WoW Instant Messenger, is first and foremost a whisper handler, designed to pull whispers out of that ever flowing wall of green, blue, and orange text and format them in an IM style. It is true that Pazza has recently added the ability to pull just about any communication channel out of the default WoW chat handler and into it's own window, but that is not the primary feature of this mod.

Now, I'm not speaking for Pazza or any of the other devs by any means, this is purely my own thoughts. I wouldn't hold your breath for these features, but that doesn't mean that Pazza won't one day turn this into a full blown chat replacement mod.

[NachoNut]

While all those things sound great, it comes down to this: WIM, aka WoW Instant Messenger, is first and foremost a whisper handler, designed to pull whispers out of that ever flowing wall of green, blue, and orange text and format them in an IM style. It is true that Pazza has recently added the ability to pull just about any communication channel out of the default WoW chat handler and into it's own window, but that is not the primary feature of this mod.

Now, I'm not speaking for Pazza or any of the other devs by any means, this is purely my own thoughts. I wouldn't hold your breath for these features, but that doesn't mean that Pazza won't one day turn this into a full blown chat replacement mod.

He said pazza and blow in the same sentence... 

ANYWAY.  Quoting that for the truth.  It might come at some day.  The only reason that the chat handling was ever implemented was because of requests by people like you (darkorical).  So this may sit on the backburner for QUITE some time, but it also might be implemented.

What up zeke!

[darkorical]

I have nothing against waiting and after playing with it for a while I realize that my list needs revision anyway

1. Ability to turn off  the auto hide completely
2. The ability to show system messages. "Bill has come online"  "Your group has disbanded"
3. Show loot rolls. and who looted what <--same as #2
4. Show Raid warnings (SCT makes this optional) <-- I guess it does
5. Ability to completely lock and force the spawn location of the tabs <--I got this to work after playing with existing settings
6. The ability to completely turn off the default chat system

so basically my request is system message (loot and roll etc handling) and ability to turn off existing chat completely

I am asking for this because from day one my biggest complaint about wow was the chat interface and this appears to be about the closest thing to a functioning replacement I have found