Hivemind - A Multiboxing Chat Addon

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Hivemind - A multiboxing chat addon
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By Broguypal 2026-04-09 17:50:11
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Hi friends,

Me and an awesome dude named Frodobald made Hivemind, a Windower 4 addon for multiboxers that shares /tells across all your characters.

If you run multiple characters, you've probably missed tells because they came in on a window you weren't looking at. Hivemind fixes this; when any character gets a tell, every other character running Hivemind sees it too. Same goes for outgoing tells, so you always know what's going on across all your characters without alt-tabbing.

It also shares Linkshell 1 and Linkshell 2 chat across all characters. If multiple characters are in the same linkshell, it deduplicates automatically so you don't see the same message twice.

Quickly Reply

Pressing Alt+R or Alt+L will allow you to quickly reply to recent /tell's or /linkshell chat you received from any character using the send addon.

Multiple presses of Alt+R or Alt+L cycle through the last 12 people who messaged you (or spoke in LS1 or LS2).

Example:

You're on CharacterA, but SomeGuy sends a tell to your other character CharacterB. On CharacterA's screen you see:
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[CharacterB] SomeGuy >> Hey, want to talk about using 3rd party addons in /yell? 


Press Alt+R on CharacterA and your chat fills in:
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//send CharacterB /tell SomeGuy 


Type your reply and hit enter.

Cheers!

Side note:
Credit to Rubenator for introducing me to IPC in windower. It made the functionality of this addon much cleaner.
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By Asura.Dexprozius 2026-04-09 18:46:14
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So if all 6 of your characters have 2 unique LS's each, how would it display 12 separate LS's?
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By Broguypal 2026-04-09 18:59:29
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Asura.Dexprozius said: »
So if all 6 of your characters have 2 unique LS's each, how would it display 12 separate LS's?

Hey Dex,

Each message is tagged with the character name and which linkshell it came from. Assuming you were on CharacterE, it'd look something like:
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[CharacterA][LS1] SomeDude: Anyone need Ambuscade?
[CharacterB][LS2] SomeGal: Why do you always make me play support?
[CharacterC][LS1] SomeMidget: God I hate Taru's
[CharacterD][LS2] SomeChad: They need male mithra's
...


You can always tell which character and which shell the message came from. When you press Alt+L it cycles through them starting with the most recently active, so the shell you probably want to reply to comes up first.

You can also turn on/off Linkshell chat per character with the following commands:

Commands:
//hivemind linkshell on — Enable linkshell monitoring (saved per character)

//hivemind linkshell off — Disable linkshell monitoring (saved per character)
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By HiPotion 2026-04-09 19:23:00
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amazing.
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By Bizniztyme 2026-04-11 00:05:38
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Does anyone find it gets super delayed or laggy after using it for a while? Like even typing and scrolling through different chats to respond it gets very laggy, maybe my PC is not up to par?
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By Broguypal 2026-04-11 11:21:59
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Bizniztyme said: »
Does anyone find it gets super delayed or laggy after using it for a while? Like even typing and scrolling through different chats to respond it gets very laggy, maybe my PC is not up to par?

Hey Bizniztyme, thanks for bringing this to my attention.

On a re-review of the code, I just wasn't cleaning up old message data as well as I should have been, so over long sessions it would pile up and slow things down. Appreciate you flagging it because I probably wouldn't have caught it otherwise.

Ver 1.0.2 has now been released that should address this. Feel free to re-download and replace.

If you have any other issues, please let me know.
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By Bizniztyme 2026-04-11 13:11:07
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Very nice thank you so much, great Addon!!!
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By Draylo 2026-09-01 16:32:45
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Still does it sadly, I had to stop using it. Causes a freeze after longplay and opening up the chat log... Nightmares of when that happened without sandbox
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By Broguypal 2026-09-01 23:25:44
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Draylo said: »
Still does it sadly, I had to stop using it. Causes a freeze after longplay and opening up the chat log... Nightmares of when that happened without sandbox

Hey Draylo,

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I wasn't aware users were still having issues and i appologise for this. I spent a considerable time fixing the addon so this shouldn't be a possibility anymore. If you still have issues, please let me know as I dont want anyone to experience lag issues.

Version 1.0.3 Has been released
- Hivemind no longer runs constantly in the background (it now only wakes up when there's something to do.)
- Hivemind now ignores all chat except tells and linkshell, instead of reading every message in the zone.
- Duplicate linkshell messages are now discarded on arrival instead of being checked over and over.
- Duplicate tracking memory is now cleaned up every 15 seconds instead of every minute.
- Duplicate tracking is now reset when you log out or toggle linkshell monitoring off.
- Fixed: if someone sent the same tell to two of your characters, only one used to show up. Both show now.
- Fixed: holding Alt+R to cycle reply targets no longer stutters.

Version 1.0.4 - Sept 2, 2026 fix
- Fixed two spots where a rare error could quietly switch off part of the addon until you reloaded it. One of those could have caused memory use to slowly creep up during very long sessions.
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