WIM (WoW Instant Messenger) v3
WIM (WoW Instant Messenger) is a World of Warcraft addon which brings an instant messenger feel to communication in game.
Features
- Whispers in their own windows.
- Chat in their own windows.
- Tabbed windows
- Highly configurable.
- History
- Copy and paste as:
- Raw Text
- BBCode
- Copy and paste as:
- Advanced, intellectual window behaviors & animations.
- Skins
- Emoticons
- Clickable web URLS for easy viewing. No more retyping a long url a friend sends you.
- Customizable sound options.
- Expose - great way to clear your screen of windows when you are in combat.
- Addon Compatibility: (Always make sure you are running the latest versions.
- Prat
- DBM
Having a problem? Report it here (GitHub)
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RealPazza Owner
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humfras Author
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Posted Jan 29, 2026I have the following questions: is there any possibilty to set a hotkey to re-open the last whipser message? and from the chat history possible to add a right click whipser back function?
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Posted Jan 27, 2026The hotkey for quick whispering back won't open the chat when i have WIM active. Looks like the game has now 2 options in the settings for that, one works (the new one), the old (my default) has no function when i load WIM. But i guess its more a bug made from Blizzard to make now 2 settings that do the same ^^
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Posted Jan 27, 2026In reply to IggyDarr:
Thanks. I'll take a look. Blizzard is trying to force me out of retirement with this expansion 😂
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Posted Jan 25, 2026Mine works fine until I enter a dungeon, or raid, then it takes the short bus to Error City.
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Posted Jan 25, 2026can you add checkpvp or another forum of pvp lookupsite into it. for example if i click the profile links it has copyname,wowhead,progress,.ect can you add a check pvp into it or drustvar or something.
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Posted Jan 24, 2026I am having a problem with WIM including up to 3.15.0 in TBC.
With certain users in my guild (at least) when I try and message them with wim active, I get a message in red from blizzard stating: Unable to whisper '%s'. Blizzard services may be unavailable.
I tracked down the culprit after enabling and testing addons one by one and WIM was the culprit.
I can even have wim addon turned on and if i go in the settings and click "Enable WIM', i get the problem and when i uncheck it, the problem goes away.
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Posted Jan 25, 2026In reply to Ais_Wallenstein_:
Is there any rhyme and reason for when it happens. For example, is it a cross-realm user, etc?
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Posted Jan 29, 2026In reply to RealPazza: https://github.com/Legacy-of-Sylvanaar/wow-instant-messenger/issues/208
it forces you to do Name-server and if you remove server SOMETIMES it works but most of the time it triggers the lua error then stops working. see my photos for the report.
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Posted Jan 30, 2026In reply to RealPazza: there is no rhyme or reason for this. I am not trying to go cross realm or anything.
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Posted Jan 24, 2026A version for Midnight is available at: https://github.com/Amadeus-/wow-instant-messenger (there is even a custom release on that page, 3.14.6a)
I also created a pull request for the author, should they return and want to make an official update. It also explains what was changed: https://github.com/Legacy-of-Sylvanaar/wow-instant-messenger/pull/206
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Posted Jan 24, 2026This did the trick, thanks! <3
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Posted Jan 23, 2026I went back to version 3.14.4 and it's working ok
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Posted Jan 23, 2026In reply to whitie: THANK YOU!!!
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Posted Jan 23, 2026I'm sad, WIM shows as incompatible. I did delete, and reinstalled, but still no go. :'(
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Posted Jan 23, 2026The addon has stopped working for me. I just get a quick outline of a box on my screen for a second that goes away and nothing else.
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Posted Jan 22, 2026Can confirm this also just worked for me! Thank all the stars because I was lost without it!
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Posted Jan 23, 2026In reply to DeviLynDanger: worked for me too
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Posted Jan 21, 2026Found a temporary solution to avoid WIM to be flagged as incompatible...
Been gambling with the lua file and noticed the line with game version stated 120001 instead of 120000, just replaced the value with 120000 and now it works
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Posted Jan 21, 2026In reply to khoinoor: this works on the new update (from like a few days ago)? ive been struggling my ass off with this and using an older version and editing the .toc manually. which lua file exactly did you mess with?
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Posted Jan 21, 2026Thank you for mentioning that toc file. Replacing the version number there worked like a charm!