You just gotta love flyby single-post flamers who "have to say something" .

I'll direct those people who want far more valuable responses than those of a flyby flamer to this forum subject: WoWInterface and Curse working together to help protect authors and other site-users.

Again: WoWInterface downloader (new link) or Curse downloader. 5 minutes a day, tops, no matter how many mods you run.

2 things here;

First, wowmatix extended an offer to pay their bandwidth costs, and/or host the files on their own server (which they now do with a crap load of mods)... to which wowinterface refused to comment and curse got into a public argument about it, making threats. Mod creators have the option to allow wowmatrix to host the files as well, simply making life easier for their users. Disagreeing to is either ignorance of the system, or worries about some form of income on the mod. (Edit: Or, a missing mod developer)

Second, I'm not about to spend an hour a day checking these addons. I have over 60 myself, and even saying a single minute to check them means an hour of my playtime... versus a program that checks it for me and ensures they are up to date. Even every week, hell every MONTH that's unnessisary wasted time. If I had one or two addons, sure... but 60+?

And I know this is an old post, was looking up an addon and saw this stupidity, had to say something.

LootLink (and Elkano's ItemDB) are definitely responsible for certain disconnects for me - if I disable them all is fine and dandy, if I enable either I get "retrieving item information" while mousing over empty bank slots, which leads to disconnects when I click the bank slot (eg. when I move an item there, but also just from left-clicking the slot for the sake of it)

(Chuckle), it will never happen. Both WoWInterface here as well as Curse have blocked Wowmatrix (and, uh, its not LootLink blocking Wowmatrix). That lame program uses up those sites bandwidth without authorization and without paying for it via ads or anything else.

BTW, LootLink hasn't been updated since October 2008; any particular reason you need to "update" it?

So good luck getting addons if you can't handle the very simple task of downloading/installing mods manually. And/or keeping track of what's updated with your Favorites list. Or by using the (incredibly simple) WoWInterface downloader or Curse downloader. Its not hard, really . So "good luck to ya".

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As to LootLink itself in WoW 3.1.x, one thing have noticed. Random disconnections from the server opening the character screen and/or during instance runs after the 3.1 patch hit. I don't use DeadlyBossMods (known to have had problems).

Disconnections that are identical to what happens when you try to link an item in the LootLink database that has not been seen on the server yet. The disconnects happen without linking anything in chat. I have not narrowed it down to LootLink yet, but may be worth looking at. Chat filters & link processing has changed in WoW since the last version of this was released.

Another problem: LootLink v3.02.1 (USEnglish client/server) + Auctioneer 5.4.4157 (latest release) using the standard AH window, not Auctioneer's option for a modified one.

"/lootlink scan" and then open the AH window. Before the WoW 3.1 patch, it scanned without issue and let you know in the AH window via text what page it was scanning. Currently, that doesn't happen. It shows page upon page of items its scanning, but never lets you know its progress or when its done.

Ya, I liked this one as well. Unfortunantly I wont be able to use it anymore. wowmatrix tells me that they have been blocked from updating this addon. Well, since I have no intentions on changing updaters I guess this is where we part company. Good luck to ya. If you ever decide to allow matrix to once again update your add on for me atuomaticly, Ill add you back to my list of prefered add ons

I haven't used LootLink in a while. I just never reinstalled it when I got my new computer. I am gonna add it back in today but I remember back in the pre BC days you had a premade database with many items already in it that we could download and add so that we would start off with a pretty good database of the bat. Any chance you can do something like that again. I am sure your database is pretty full at this point. Would it be too much to upload that and provide the download with install instructions for us? Either way thanks for your hard work on all this. Still a great addon after all these years.

Still getting same error when trying to use right click to set a focus (on a Stormwind City Guard if that helps)

12/30 09:56:27.203 Global variable UIDROPDOWNMENU_INIT_MENU tainted by LootLink - Interface\FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.lua:30 UIDropDownMenu_Initialize()
12/30 09:56:27.203 Interface\FrameXML\LFGFrame.lua:563 LFGFrame_Update()
12/30 09:56:27.203 Interface\FrameXML\LFGFrame.lua:514 LFGFrame_OnEvent()
12/30 09:56:27.203 LFGFrame:OnEvent()
12/30 09:56:27.203 Execution tainted by LootLink while reading UIDROPDOWNMENU_INIT_MENU - Interface\FrameXML\UnitPopup.lua:997 func()
12/30 09:56:27.203 Interface\FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.lua:568 UIDropDownMenuButton_OnClick()
12/30 09:56:27.203 DropDownList1Button2:OnClick()
12/30 09:56:27.203 An action was blocked because of taint from LootLink - FocusUnit()
12/30 09:56:27.203 Interface\FrameXML\UnitPopup.lua:1181 func()
12/30 09:56:27.203 Interface\FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.lua:568 UIDropDownMenuButton_OnClick()
12/30 09:56:27.203 DropDownList1Button2:OnClick()

The search by type returns always 0 results (except Other, there is nearly everything in it) on the german client. What can i do?

I used LootLink before finding LinksList. LinksList offers so much more that I don't understand how LootLink is still at it's current state. The issue I have now is LinksList has not been updated for 3.0 >.< I just can't stand how clunky LootLink seems compared to LinksList and the whole reason I get these type of addons is to find an item without having to minimize and go to Alla/Armory. Having to build the database kind of destroys the purpose of the addon imo and relying on someone else's, possibly corrupt, database.... >.<. Maybe, since LootLink is kept up to date, the author can get ahold of the other of LinksList and they can compare notes.

I did appreciate LootLink while I used it, thank you.

Last patch notes read something about fixing typoes on items. If this is the case, then a pre-existing database isn't going to work. May have to clear your LL database to fix the issue.

im having issues with inspecting people with Lootlink enabled.

Sometimes it will just NOT show the item icon. No matter what i do. I have to turn off Lootlink in my addons to get it working again. Of course, no LL that way =(

Anyone know of a recent LootLink database available for download, working with this newest version which has most BC items in it?

I've done a few google searches and tried a few databases. I tried that LootLink Database Adder which merges an old database. But when I search for items with it, while they are now indeed in my database, if I try to link anything that came from the merge (a "cached" item) I get disconnected from server.

I'm assuming maybe the merger is not creating database entries of the correct format or something like that so when I link them, the server doesn't like it?

So I'm just wondering if anyone has any properly working databases? Or do I have to build a new one from scratch? Did 3.0 implement a new item format?

This version seems to be giving WoWMatrix fits, causing it to crash out while trying to scan for updated versions of add-ons.

Fizzwidget has something like what you're asking for available here.