CurseForge Official API & Standalone Client Now Live

[Onikaroshi]

Never had any issues with the one attached to launching overwolf but will still switch as to have have to launch 2 programs lol.

[Julmara]

the curse is finally lifted we are free \o/

[ablib]

It's not that hard to just bypass these shit apps and update manually. I check for updates every Friday. Takes about 5 minutes on the 31 addons I check for (for TBC Classic).

These apps are nothing but a target for hacking, vulnerabilities and are written by shitty programmers.

[Mendzia]

Good to see this. Fuck Overshit and anything related to it.
I will wait what people think about this client and maybe decide in 1-2 weeks to be back to it if it won't cause any problems.
Something tells me that it will be still very invasive tho.

[eop]

Good to see this. Fuck Overshit and anything related to it.
I will wait what people think about this client and maybe decide in 1-2 weeks to be back to it if it won't cause any problems.
Something tells me that it will be still very invasive tho.

This is still Overwolf's app? By using it you are still agreeing to Overwolf's Terms of Services.

[Mendzia]

This is still Overwolf's app? By using it you are still agreeing to Overwolf's Terms of Services.

Well... i will not even think about using this shit then.
Thanks for info.

[suprep]

Standalone and then 80 MB? Why is this so bloated?

It's likely running Electron, which is an application running on an embedded Chromium. Think of it as a web-browser in an application, this makes it bloated by default.

[twothe]

If you do Minecraft modding then you really learn to hate that Overwolf piece of crap. Imagine scrolling down 5 mods and it takes a minute to do that.

[ElDoorO]

Really is a shame authors don't migrate to using Github. It'd also make getting others support, for free, beneficial.

[Stickiler]

Really is a shame authors don't migrate to using Github. It'd also make getting others support, for free, beneficial.

The problem with Github is discoverability. It's fantastic for hosting code and allowing collaboration between devs, but the discoverability of github is absolutely atrocious, which is one of the main benefits of WoW addon sites like wowup and curseforge, the ability to search for addons, and filter them by various categories.

[VanishO2]

they broke the APi because the people refused to partner with them and instead were abusing the API



I am your neighbor, and i start stealing your internet, you approach me and make an offer that i pay for like 30% of the internet bill and you will continue to let me use it, i refuse so of course you cut me off. i then say "Wow they are changing the password to monopolize on the internet"

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overwolf disaster? what overwolf disaster?

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yes, experts have analyzed it for years and found literally 0 problems, but people keep saying "but malware" not true "but crypto mining" not true "but data collection" true, but optional "well then i will just use wag.io" wag.io collects FAR more data, all the while trying to hide it.

also you dont know what most of these things mean do you, speaking you put spyware in the same category as bloatware and adware...
yeah overwolf is adware and bloatware, but so is steam and battlenet launcher, and wowup, you dont NEED the bnet launcher you can just have the actual wow launcher, but you are required to download the bnet launcher, and it shows you ads all the time while you have it open on screen.

Cool and all, except that your neightbor is not trying to have all the internet to him. You can get your own internet yourself from any provider. Imagine addon creators being able to have their addons on every provider without impacting their $$ support from overwolf.

[FelPlague]

Cool and all, except that your neightbor is not trying to have all the internet to him. You can get your own internet yourself from any provider. Imagine addon creators being able to have their addons on every provider without impacting their $$ support from overwolf.

and they can, idk if you know but addon creators host their addons on multiple services, but if you want access to curseforges APi you have to pay for it, and wowup was not. and when they offered they partnered with their competitor.

[m4xc4v413r4]

Really is a shame authors don't migrate to using Github. It'd also make getting others support, for free, beneficial.

Most authors do have a github repo of their addons, so what? How does that fix the problem? Did github start paying addon devs and I didn't know about it?

[Konteil]

so am i going to have to reinstall my addons yet again and redo my ui all over again when i do this or does it all transfer to the standalone app. im tired of redoing my ui every time they do this.

[Twdft]

I am your neighbor, and i start stealing your internet, you approach me and make an offer that i pay for like 30% of the internet bill and you will continue to let me use it, i refuse so of course you cut me off. i then say "Wow they are changing the password to monopolize on the internet"

More like your neighbor had his wifi set up without any password and then gets angry at you using it.

[Ealyssa]

so am i going to have to reinstall my addons yet again and redo my ui all over again when i do this or does it all transfer to the standalone app. im tired of redoing my ui every time they do this.

What ? It has literally nothing to do with anyone's UI...

[Raven]

Most authors do have a github repo of their addons, so what? How does that fix the problem? Did github start paying addon devs and I didn't know about it?

No but i dont really know if you can say that overwolf do either with how small part the creator actually gets.

[m4xc4v413r4]

No but i dont really know if you can say that overwolf do either with how small part the creator actually gets.

I don't know how small of a part it is but I'm going to risk it at saying neither do you, but what matters is, is it smaller than what the others offer?

I don't give two shits about overwolf, what I give a shit is that most users jumped on support of apps like wowup that were literally living off of other people's infrastructure and money, while trying to sell the "poor me" story as if they were being attacked by curse/overwolf. And honestly, that just shows how dumb these people are and shows they don't understand in the slightest how everything they use works. Shit costs money, i know this generation is used to everything being "free" but it's never free, you're paying one way or the other.
So I'm sorry I don't defend people that make money on an app that they then run on other people's infrastructure while not wanting to pay for it. Which btw they're still doing by using github's and other website's infrastructure for it. They're not running their own servers/storage or paying the bills on the transfer bandwidth or storage. Do you know how much it costs to transfer Terabytes of data?

[MiiiMiii]

I'm not taking any fights and on WowUp now many addons are not available like Recount and Altoholic, so I will simply switch to this one. It's not a passionate topic to me.

I hope it's as easy to update all addons on all clients here.

First impressions are this is good, it auto updates addons as long as the app is running, much better than WowUp's manual click.

I think they should fix the titles of the WoW games though, not "WoW", "WoW 2" and "WoW 3", but with real names like Retail, Classic Era and TBC. EDIT: This fixed itself now it display games correctly, nice.

I would also like a timestamp when the addon was updated, not "Updated Recently". (Tip: You can see the date by hovering over "Updated Recently")

[FelPlague]

More like your neighbor had his wifi set up without any password and then gets angry at you using it.

then when they added a password that person starts crying that how dare they set up a password

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No but i dont really know if you can say that overwolf do either with how small part the creator actually gets.

the creators get a majority not a "small part" source, literally all the creators who have said again and again they get paid more per month then ever now thanks to overwolf.

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so am i going to have to reinstall my addons yet again and redo my ui all over again when i do this or does it all transfer to the standalone app. im tired of redoing my ui every time they do this.

you have never had to redo all your addons every time they have changed, you literally just press scan...