Survival Guide Issue
Hey. I just noticed my UI is on the survival guide list:
http://www.wowinterface.com/survivalguide.php Why is it not marked as updated? Another example would be Altholic which is updated but not listed as such: http://www.wowinterface.com/download...Altoholic.html Just for notice. Can't you check for the checkbox (patch 5.2) value automatically? |
That would be why we ask people to let us know if something has been updated and we haven't marked it as such yet. :)
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Others that are incorrectly marked as not updated:
Also, at this point, I don't think these addons should be included in the guide anymore:
Also, I'm not sure what the intent of this guide is... there are some addons on there (like oGlow) that probably have about 10 users, and others (like Healbot or DBM) that have 100,000 users but aren't listed. If the intent is to help new addon users, there are a lot of addons listed that new users really shouldn't be encouraged to use, since they are legacy addons whose features are now provided by the default UI. For example, unless you've been using Group Calendar or Outfitter since the Burning Crusade and are just used to how they work, you should really just use the default UI's calendar invite system and equipment set manager, especially if you're new to using addons. All in all, it seems like a strange page. It might be better replaced by a more general guide that explains how to enable "out of date" addons, what "out of date" actually means after a patch, and suggestions for using the site's Favorites feature and/or the Curse Client (Minion is dead, right?) to keep up with updates. |
Just automate that list. Take your biggest addon downloads parsed over the last months and check the checkbox for the corresponding patch. Thuse those addons will be displayed automatically.
I would not care about an addon description. People using that list are looking for an addon they know already. |
Thanks for the feedback guys, I agree things should be more automated (should be very easy for us to auto mark addons in our database as updated, little more scrapeing work to do it with curse) and that there are a bunch of addons on the list that probably shouldn't be and some that aren't there that maybe should be. I also agree a nice guide on how to enable your addons after a patch would be great, maybe a nice quick video too.
We've got some big projects going on in the background and will add this to the list. :) |
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Thank you for the list of addons that have been updated since I last got a chance to go down the list. Quote:
I know that some really old ones went back on there, that’s because I rebuilt the entire list completely from scratch for MoP, and then did a straight copy of that list for the latest patch. The manner in which I came up with the list meant that some old ones would inevitably get back on the list. I knew that going in and have been working on filtering them back out over time. Thanks for your help on that. :) Quote:
Also, umm, what are you talking about? DBM and HealBot are on there, they’ve been on there for years now. As for the addons whose features (or parts of them) have been integrated into the default UI, this page isn’t about ‘encouraging’ anyone to use anything, it is about showing what the most popular addons are across the sites and about where they’ve been updated. Plus, some may like the way something is handled in an addon more than they like the ‘default’ version. Different strokes for different folks. /shrug :) Quote:
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The reason for the description is for those users who are looking at the list to see what addons are really popular and that they may want to try out. :) |
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