Prat 3.0
In loving memory of Jon Akthar (Sylvanaar)
Hello WoW community, I'm LuciferCatnip, Sylvanaar was my coworker and my mentor. It goes without saying that Jon was an amazingly talented individual. He always seemed to know everything… but he once said to me "It's not about knowing the answers, it's about asking the right questions", he always challenged me to ask me the right questions until I would arrive at the answer on my own terms. Jon was also a champion of the open source movement, and so with special thanks to Gil from Curseforge as well as Sylvanaar's family, there's no better way to honor Sylvanaar's legacy than to keep his project going strong in the community.
If you'd like to help maintain Prat, please reach out to MysticalOS or LuciferCatnip directly. Thank you so much.
About
Prat-3.0 is a chat enhancement addon for World of Warcraft.
It is made up of 30+ smaller "modules" which each provide additional functionality, and can be enabled or disabled individually.
In game, type /prat for a menu. Or use the icon on one of the many data broker hosts.
Prat has just about every feature you can think of, and then some. Really. When I get some more time, I'll try and put together a full list (Even I have lost count)
(Thanks to Dreamsight for this partial list)
- Sync your chat settings across your account (Beta)
- Machine learning powered spam filter (Beta)
- Change arrows, buttons, mouse scroll for chat scroll, scroll speed
- you can add player color per channel, color per level, color per class
- timestamps (styled)
- Whether to show timestamp (what format the timestamp should be in)
- Whether to show players level
- You can select the option for channel "stickys" (last channel you used you auto use when hitting enter, that sort of thing – or last thing someone said)
- Change the looks of the chat's editbox - as well as where it appears (you can even undock it and move it to where you'd like it to be)
- Chat fading, fading delay
- You can change the font to a list of fonts, add an outline to it, monochrome it (if you don’t mind messing with files a bit you could probably even add other fonts to that list)
- Change the chat frame/chat box appearance
- Keep chat history between game sessions
- Set channel abbreviations
- Set brackets and color(or something instead of brackets)round player/lvl
- Alt invite option (press keyboard “alt” button and click on the player’s name to auto inv them)
- Raid icon
- Invite links - click them to invite the person
- URL copying
- Full chat copying + copy button
- Click timestamp to copy line
- Configurable alerts when your name or other word is mentioned
- Enables tell target /tt which whispers your target
- Alias options - make macros into short commands
- See names of players Alt characters
- Change chat sounds (incoming and outgoing as well as per channel)
- Achievements info and grats
- Full chat search and search box
- Customizable filters for advanced users
- Show item icon next to item links and player class icon next to player names
- Icon-only options for newcomers chat
- Optional flashing or font color change for chat tabs when a new message comes in.
You can enable/disable all Prat modules - don't have to have the ones you don't use running
While trying to reduce resource utilization, it is also important to note that some people prefer the features, and don't care that an addon uses 500k more.

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Posted Jan 30, 2026Any chance to get an update that will either give an option to suppress Chinese characters on US servers or reduce their font size so it doesn't distort the chat messages?
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Posted Jan 28, 2026Hey, so I was just wondering... is there a way for me to increase the size of the edit box text? I've looked and I can't seem to find an option for it?
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Posted Jan 27, 2026There is an action that is blocked and PRAT prevents you from chatting if you are I combat, very inconveient when trying to explain something and you cant even open the chat window
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Posted Jan 27, 2026In reply to neo_fire_fly: i have the same problem
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Posted Jan 27, 2026In reply to Musaxinho: its very annoying, but they are all trying to figure out the new environment
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Posted Jan 26, 2026Is there a way to disable the double timestamps I'm getting? Here's an example from chat.
[02:09] 02:09 Overlord Geya'rah says: Your people have broken their word, Trollbane.
[02:09] 02:09 Danath Trollbane says: I understand your frustration, Geya'rah. But do not rush to conclusions.
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Posted Jan 25, 2026Question about the ChatFilter function.
I am on a layered server and I am constantly seeing people in the global LFG channel spamming "layer".
I want to filter these messages but I don't want to filter instances where the word layer is used in a legitimate message.
Is the message filter string a RegEx expression?
Can I filter a single word used by itself without filtering the same word when accompanied with other text?
Is there any kind of guide to better explain the ChatFilter module?
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Posted Jan 22, 2026Zero Clamp Size claims it allows the chatframe to be moved flush with the edge of the screen but it lies. In edit mode I am now able to move the chatframe where I want it but it immediately snaps back. Tried turning Snap to Elements off in the edit mode, still nothing.
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Posted Jan 22, 2026Zero Clamp Size appears to be broken, I can move the frames off the page with or without the setting on.
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Posted Jan 22, 2026worked for me in TBC anniversary. Even after 1 reload UI settings saved...well see if not later on. So again change font settings in prats options.
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Posted Jan 23, 2026In reply to Djuntas: Thanks seems like that worked . I was using general tab in game font size
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Posted Jan 21, 2026Still not saving Not saving font size . all ways ends back at 12 pt after setting to 16 pt
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Posted Jan 21, 2026In reply to speedenbull: the font size gets saved if you type in /prat -> Display Settings -> Font
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Posted Jan 21, 2026In reply to Zaazu: Just tested in retail, not saving font size with this method.
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Posted Jan 21, 2026Can we have a setting to increase the Edit Box font size please?
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Posted Jan 21, 2026Addon does work in Midnight. But since blizzard nuked so much else for UIs, I have found a few glaring issues. For starters, hiding the buttons doesn't adjust the size of the background when it is enabled. There is still a massive colored 'box' that extends beyond the left side of the chat window, and I'd love for this to not be the case. Anyway to limit the background color to JUST the text input box and not the rest?
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Posted Jan 20, 2026Will this addon work in midnight? I absolutely love prat. :(
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Posted Jan 20, 2026Thanks for update. I can now drag prat to bottom etc. Seems no problems then.
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Posted Jan 20, 2026Still no update on why class colors have stopped showing in bnet whispers retail, no client icon either?
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Posted Jan 19, 2026With the 3.9.82 released on TBC anniversary, I am still unable to completely remove the chat buttons and make the chatbox flush with the screen edge in the bottom left corner.