Very interesting concept. But v1.23 conflicts (far too easily) with other chat addons and thus is problematic in use here. So much so that its unusable.

Am the guild leader of my guild. Installed 1.23 (first one tried). At logon, the following error occurs (recorded with the Ace2 BugSack/BugGrabber mod):

"WhoDat-1.23\\WhoDat.lua:430: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'stop' (a nil value)\nMinimalist-4.0.1\\Minimalist.lua:544: in function <Interface\\AddOns\\Minimalist\\Minimalist.lua:523>\n(tail call): ?:\nSimpleChatMods\\playernames.lua:133: in function <Interface\\AddOns\\SimpleChatMods\\playernames.lua:126>\n(tail call): ?:\nInterface\\FrameXML\\ChatFrame.lua:2208: in function <Interface\\FrameXML\\ChatFrame.lua:2105>:\n(tail call): ?:\n(tail call): ?:\n(tail call): ?:\n(tail call): ?:\nFuBar_WhisperFu-r41623\\WhisperFu.lua:456: in function `ChatFrame_MessageEventHandler'\nInterface\\FrameXML\\ChatFrame.lua:1967: in function `OriginalChatFrame_OnEvent':\nWhoDat-1.23\\WhoDat.lua:557: in function `ChatFrame_OnEvent'\n<string>:\"*:OnEvent\":1: in function <[string \"*:OnEvent\"]:1>"

That error repeated 27 times during the session. What is extremely problematic about it: with the mod running, incoming guild, officer & party chat did not appear in my chat box.

I have guild, party & officer chat in a separate chat box from general, trade, yell, etc.. Testing through two different sessions verified that with my setup, WhoDat prevented incoming chat from appearing in any of those three channels. Which makes it useless.

Regarding the other mods in the error message, been using them for months (fully updated) without issues.
--Minimalist has a few various, simple interface tweaks. Regarding chat, what I have it do is add timestamps to each chat line, make arrow keys move the cursor in the input box and add mouse-wheel scroll.
--FuBar_WhisperFu records all private whispers in a log.
--For SimpleChatMods I use only the "playernames.lua" module (commented the others out in the TOC); that module colors player names according to class.
--Another I use that doesn't appear in the error message is Caeryn's StickyChat. SimpleChatMods also includes a sticky function, but it doesn't compare.

And that's about it regarding chat mods I run. There are many other people that use far more complex chat mods than I do (Prat, etc.); can only imagine the compatibility problems they face with WhoDat. Have tested other chat mods at various times over the months with no errors or conflicts as bad as this. Hope this becomes usable with other chat mods soon; its a nice concept.

Great news, I'll give it another shot, but maybe this may take a day or two

First, I don't have access to the guild info, so I have to edit the luas to check for the correct settings and reload the UI every time. In whodat.lua I commented the line 773 and added my own hardcoded "guildinfo" like

local glNote ="wdnublic wdr:%[(%a+)%]";

However, I was not able to put the regexp together to get the correct mains. Our public notes are usually set this way:
"[MAINNAME] Skinng 375/Leather 372" without the [...] part for a main. Can someone advise how to put up the regexp for this, I thought "%[(%a+)%]" should be working, but is not.

Another suggestion for those of us, who would really like to use it but don't have the rights nor can persuade those who have them to fiddle with the guild info: would it be possible to add an option to "Use custom setting" and the set a local, personal custom set of wdn: and wdr: for testing purpose? Would be okay with command line only (GUI would be more helpful ), this would help in testing.

I'll try to do the german translation ASAP.

Our guild has been using this mod for a long time now (congrats on the public release, Frella), and I have to say it's a huge help even in our small guild. Not only does it help figure out who is talking in guild chat when they're on an alt, but it makes things easier to put together a group even when you're on a lower level alt, because you can look through everyone online and see who all their alts are.

I have to imagine the potential benefits would be even greater for larger guilds.

Is there any way to get it to recognize odd characters? It seems to kind of recognize them, but not entirely.

We've got a guildie that's main has a ö in his name. (Blamö). When i set his note (using officer notes), it kind of recognizes it.. if i look at him with the command /whodat - it shows "Blamö - Alt: Blamö [lvl class]".. but when he types someting in chat, it says "Blamö (Blam)" when he chats, and "Blamö (MAIN: Blam) has come online".

Any way to fix that?

This one looks really promising, I'm also lost most of the time with all those ALTs.

I alos would like to make a suggestion: our officers are using the public notice right now, but the mains name is not the only information in the public note. The mains name is included in brackets and looks like this

[Mainname] Profession, other infos

Would it be possible to include an option to extract the mains name given a start and an end tag? I'm not that familiar with LUA coding but I presume that you could implement that in the FixName function (WhoDat.lua line 765)

Regarding translation: I#m more than willing to provide a german translation, once you have separated the strings to a localization file

Thanks for reading

/me sighs as his poor joke goes far, far over the heads of the audience.