Server Name Chat

Support Bug Report
1

Server names are no longer being shown in chat for players in battlegrounds.

2

Not just bgs. Everywhere. However the server prefix does show in /say. No idea what’s going on.

3

at least we can know the realm searching in the raid/party members list

4

Initially i thought it was my addons, but yep, seems like a client issue that popped up after this weeks reset.

5

Yes, this change broke a few things, namely base Ui chat and a few addons.

What happened

  • sometimes tuesday, not sure timing but blizzard swapped the 4th and 5th args on CHAT_MSG_ADDON, CHAT_MSG_RAID, CHAT_MSG_Party, and INSTANCE_CHAT

  • Before change, 4th arg was sender long name (ie Name-Realm) and 5th arg was short name (ie only name).

  • Because base UI, and addons have always parsed the long name from arg 4, when they swapped them for unknown reasons, they broke addons and even their own base UI. The issue was communicated to blizzard early yesterday and they are looking into it but that’s last I heard.

Broken Addons

  • I know for myself, this is why you saw me release a lot of DBM updates.

  • Addons had to work around this issue to restore functionality to the addon. It was worst of timing too because for DBM specifically I had JUST done a new release tuesday and THEN blizzard broke API, so the timing looked like DBM broke things. Then having to do a rush 2nd release the very next day to work around problem in a way that broke backwards compatibility made it even bigger mess to users who didn’t get update (ie, the fix only worked for those on latest release but had 0 old mod compatibility). Fortunately after some further time and cleanup I was able to restore backwards compatibility in a 3rd release. That was still 3 releases in a 24 hour period. None the less, THIS was the reason.

  • The mod issues are fixed if users update (both DBM and BW have updates) and possibly other addon updates are out now that i’m unaware of.

Now, back to stock UI, here is what’s broken there.

  1. In PARTY, RAID, and Instance (LFR/BGs) chat, cross realm names don’t show that they’re cross realm.
  2. because of 1, Whisper target and report player are broken when used from dropdown since it tries to report/whisper a player that’s on same realm for cross realm players

The base Ui issues though await blizzard to reverse/fix the change

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