Whisper Feature

Settings | Usage | Troubleshooting

Chatty implements the /w command that Twitch Chat provides, allowing you to send private messages in chat to other users. Chatty does not provide the Whisper History as on the website and is only a very basic implementation in general.

The Whisper Feature is disabled by default.

In April 2016 Twitch moved Whispers from the Group Chat servers to the new AWS Twitch Chat servers. There is no additional server configuration required anymore.

Settings

• Whisper Enabled: Allow sending and receiving Whispers. With this disabled, you won't be able to send Whispers and any received Whispers will be entirely ignored.
• Whitelist: If enabled, only users that have the Addressbook category whisper will be able to send whispers to you. Messages from other users are discarded. Alternatively you can also blacklist users by adding them to the blockwhisper category (which makes most sense with the Whitelist setting disabled).
  
  In addition, you can also add users to the Ignore List by right-clicking on them in chat to open the context menu and choosing Miscellaneous - Ignore (whisper). Unlike the Blacklist or Whitelist using the Addressbook, this will not completely discard the messages, but instead add them to the Ignored Messages dialog and possibly output some other messages about it, depending on the Ignore settings.
• Display: Changes where the whispers are displayed.
  • Active Chat - Show in the chat window you are currently having active in Chatty.
  • One Window - Show all whispers in one separate window. In that window you will be able to respond to whispers by just typing <name> <message> instead of having to use the /w command. To be sure you actually provide the user to send it to you can only whisper to users that have already whispered to you (so e.g. Hey how are you? :) wont't be send to the user named Hey). The tab for collecting all whispers is named $[whisper].
  • Per User - Open an extra tab for every user that whispers to you. You can respond to whispers by just typing the message in the tab for that user. The tab will be named $<username>.
• Auto-respond to ignored/non-whitelisted users: If enabled, sends an automatic reponse to users that you have ignored (or not whitelisted if you have the whitelist enabled), if they whisper to you. This does not apply to messages that are ignored due to the regular ignore list, just the separate user ignore list (changeable through the Settings, commands or the User Context Menu) or the special Addressbook categories for whispers (see above).
  The message being sent is [Auto-Message] This user has not allowed to receive whispers from you.. The message is only sent once per session to each different user that whispers to you and is also spam protected.

Usage

When the Whisper Feature is connected ([W] appears in the titlebar) you can receive and send whispers:

• When you receive a whisper, it will be displayed depending on the Display setting and will be indicated by the nickname being marked like this: -[name]-
• When you send a whisper via /w <name> <message>, then this will be indicated in chat by the nickname being marked like this: >>[name]
• In both cases the name is the name of the person you are talking with, not your own name.
• When you click on the name, you will be able to see your conversation, with your own messages marked with a asterisk in front (*), which is usually used to mark action messages (/me).