CurseForge Official API & Standalone Client Now Live

[Milky063]

soooooo..

https://ibb.co/xJWrH4L

fix this maybe so we can us it???? not sure why other programs don't have this issue but congrazts on being the first program to have a issue with this....
In order to remove/get out of the insider program, you have to do a fresh install of windows 11. so yeah fuck OverWolf.

[Julmara]

soooooo..

https://ibb.co/xJWrH4L

fix this maybe so we can us it???? not sure why other programs don't have this issue but congrazts on being the first program to have a issue with this....
In order to remove/get out of the insider program, you have to do a fresh install of windows 11. so yeah fuck OverWolf.

no issues on my end and im on win 11 for a few months now

[Lahis]

Never touching any Overwolf shit.

In a way, this happened at a good time. DRagonflight will overhaul the base UI. If any of my Addons aren't supported on WowUp repos, I'll just ditch them in 10.0.

[Konteil]

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

i load all my addons that i use thru curse on overwolf adn it installes them. i use bartender 4 for my UI when they change from curse client to overwofl i had to redownload and reinstall. then ahd to set up my UI and save it again. i dont know if i just dont do it right or waht but everytime the installer changes i have to redo the set up again.

[Milky063]

no issues on my end and im on win 11 for a few months now

If you look at the picture in the link you'll see. You're part of the insider program?

[Linri]

as soon as curse was taken over by overwolf, i immediately deleted it, don't need that nonsense on my computer

wowup is much easier for me, will be sticking with that.

on a side note though nothing wrong with overwol for those who use it, i just don't need all that junk when it's literally downloading, and placing in a folder

[Azerox]

Working great, hope they copy wowup.

[Ealyssa]

when they change from curse client to overwofl i had to redownload and reinstall..

No you didn't...

It's not their fault you don't understand how wow addons are working. The saved variables are on your computer, where the addon comes from is irrelevant to your settings.

[thunderdragon2]

is the standalone worth using since wowup kinda lost half the addons i use today wait a minuet the curseforge addon manager has 32 bots on it??????

[Darsyek]

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

Addon devs get 70% of the ad revenue from Overwolf. Hardly a "small part" of the profit. It's a 70/30 split in favor of the developers, so Overwolf only takes 30% to cover server and bandwidth costs.

[Nerph-]

is the standalone worth using since wowup kinda lost half the addons i use today wait a minuet the curseforge addon manager has 32 bots on it??????

That's approved API applications, of which 32 (Discord?) bots. So not like in-game bots, if that's what you were thinking.

[GUZ]

Thank god overwolf is ass

[Sweetdeal]

I hope Blizzard stops that shit by force addons to be free and not be able to monitarize by Ads etc.


Yeah we will loose some greedy authors but that’s fine.

[Sicarius87]

no issues on my end and im on win 11 for a few months now

Are you doing a windows insider program where you get builds of windows 11 that are not made available to the general public yet? if not, he is.

[Konteil]

No you didn't...

It's not their fault you don't understand how wow addons are working. The saved variables are on your computer, where the addon comes from is irrelevant to your settings.

yes and helpful comments like this where no one tells anyone how things work make no sense. im 55 years old computers are greek to me. i just like to play my game.
i didnt know thre was a scan option i dont know how they work. my guild says do this if youwant to raid with us so i do.

[BoogerNuts]

If I could choose getting kicked squarely in the nuts as an option to update a single addon in my dir -- I'd rather take 77 kicks to the crotch than install that janky-ass software to my machine.

[rrayy]

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.

Imagine an addon author getting money from all downloads, instead of only getting it for a portion of them because leeches want to profit from them for free.

[Clawsout]

Curseforge without overwolf is quite nice considering my wowup died 90% of my addons gone

[rrayy]

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

70% is a small part? They are getting the majority of it.

[ElDoorO]

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?

Details! is still working on it, for example. Github would allow anyone to write their own addon management software AS WELL as fork AS WELL AS push updates to help authors.

If you're writing Addons in WoW for money you're going to have a bad time.

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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.

Hashtags are probably the only (practical) method. This particular topic is something I spent a fair amount thinking on and that particular problem is difficult.

Personally I'd be ok with Blizzard hosting the model for addons via git repo's. It'd make discoverability easier as well as many other things but WoW's dev's don't seem interested in resolving those particular problems. Who knows, maybe doing that would cost us a tier or something.