![]() Now imagine millions upon millions of players hitting that addon page multiplied by how many addons they have installed. This was over-inflating the usual traffic incurred by someone checking for addon updates. They found it was reloading the addon page 3-4 times to get the addon link. Sounds fairly innocent but bear in mind their can be inefficient bots out there.For example do you know why Curse and Wowinterface teamed up to ban Wowmatrix from downloading from their site ?Īs a consqueunce of how Wowmatrix was written at the time it's source code was easily reverse engineered. It's getting a bot to read the contents of a webpage to extract data. If you still don't want to use Overwolf's addon, the Curseforge site is still there and you can use it to download from the website for an addon otherwise not on Github, or on the addon creator's personal site. You'll probably still find most of your addons on Github, and some exclusive to Curseforge. So instead they will showcase addons that have GitHub links. WoWUP agreed to Overwolf and saying that their API, their rules. ![]() Netflix wouldn't like it if someone scraped their movies (especially since they charge members a subscription to access their movies) and hosted it for free, but if a filmmaker puts it up for free on YouTube, fair game, just point the download from WoWUP to YouTube. Think of Curseforge as Netflix, and Github as YouTube. WoWUP was scraping Curseforge, private space, for addon downloads. It is managed by Overwolf and addon creators join with Overwolf and create deals to feature their addon on Curseforge to get a cut of the ad revenue / download revenue that Curseforge gets. If they want to be completely free, they put it up on Github, and so WoWUP links to there.Ĭorrect. If addon users want to get paid and not get pennies through donations because people are really stingy about donations, they go through Overwolf and get a much bigger cut. And then some random made a circlejerk post and lied about the Cease and Desist, and then got banned by the mods. So the WoWUP guy then told their Patreons that they would probably not use Curseforge anymore and instead use Github after the conversation. WoWUP has no claim to that and linking to those addons screws over those addon creators since they signed up with Overwolf to get money from traffic there. Its Overwolf and their addon partner's website. The WoWUP dev literally says that Overwolf was completely valid in their concerns about scraping and using their API. A content creator interviewed both Overwolf and WoWUP and it was basically a discussion about scraping data from Curseforge to import into WoWUP. I am basically making this in my free time alone for fun and to learn, so there really isn't any catch to it.Īpparently not. The UI is currently in the process of being updated to a hopefully much better layout, which you can see some early progress of on my discord (link available in-app or on the github). I have a discord community where people can ask any questions or get help from me if they need it. Needless to say, there is obviously no direct monetization of it through ads or w/e. Even the auto-updating function goes directly through github, so I can't see who uses it or when. The addon only ever connects to websites that it fetches addon updates from. The entire thing is open source and as you can see if you look through it, I NEVER collect any information about users. Automatic scanning for wow installations on setup (new feature, possible buggy).With the current situation I decided to add support for retail, so despite the name it should work just fine for It was originally designed for classic wow back before the Twitch app added support for classic. Shamelessly hijacking top comment to plug my own addon manager: LINK. Filter your r/wow experience with this guide!.Murloc Mondays (New Players Q&A) Reset Recruitment Midweek Mending Tanking Thursday Firepower Friday (DPS) Saturday Achievement and Loot Thread Skirmish Sundays (PvP) Blizzard Subredditsĭiablo - Starcraft - Hearthstone - Heroes of the Storm - Overwatch - WC3 - Classic WoW - Mystery -įrequently Asked Questions about Dragonflightįrequently Asked Questions. Undermine Exchange - useful resource for goldmakers. ![]() /r/classicwowtbc - World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade./r/classicwow - World of Warcraft: Classic./r/transmogrification - show us your style. ![]()
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