Originally Posted by protolif
To all who will listen (or read anyway),
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Well I think I speak for everyone when I say we try to read every post here very carefully. Not a personal attack but did you happen to read every post here ? Would seem that most of your concerns have already been addressed. Multiple times over ::eyeroll::
Originally Posted by protolif
The problem isn't in dowloading one addon. It's when you have over 30, and you need something to speed that process up. If you can write a better app than WowMatrix, please be my guest. Until then, stop crying.
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I keep 89 addons up to date. That is up to date with major changes not tagging or localisation updates which are a waste of my time
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I check for updates every week or so (even that's too often) . I might look at 7-8 webpages and download maybe 3 updates to various addons. That's right all 89 of them don't all update every day. 3 Might do (majorly) each week.
So if you're UI is perfectly stable then should be able to afford _not_ to update your addons every day. IMHO this is the problem. It has nothing to do with the quality of the addon updaters. It's the myth that you need to update every one of your addons every single day.
Believe me when I say you don't. I have most of the major addons in my watch list. They don't change in big major UI breaking ways every single day. You can afford not to use an addon updater. I don't . See my sig for details.
Originally Posted by protolif
If you had focused your efforts on that, rather than this holy war, it could be done by now.
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That's a nice option when people have a choice. Unfortunately they didn't have a choice. It was either block WM or go under. Go load up the front page of wowinterface.com . See how snappy and responsive it is ? This is a direct result of blocking wowmatrix.
Originally Posted by protolif
As a Linux user, I have no other viable option than WowMatrix.
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Email app. Tabbed browser. Email updates tied to favourites on the major sites. Update each week. See my sig for details
Originally Posted by protolif
I've tried using the Curse Client via Wine, and it worked for 1 day, until they decided to create a Premium version, and now their popup ads (Forced to run in IE) crash the application, unless you upgrade to Premium. If they released a client that ran natively in my OS, I just might, but not until then.
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I'm sad to hear of your problems with the Curse client. I do know that there are people on wowace.com who use Linux and the Curse client. Have you tried having a look through the forums there for people having similar problems ?
Originally Posted by protolif
I am very doubtful that profit is generated by this, unlike the popup windows that Curse would have us endure.
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Thing is that advertising on Curse ? Helps pay for the bandwidth you use. Wowmatrix when downloading from Curse uses that bandwidth but doesn't display the ads to help pay for it.
Originally Posted by protolif
he statement that WowMatrix causes additional stress on your servers on patch day is completely false. What it actually does, is delivers only content that users need, without all the images, flash ads, javascripts, and html code. If anything, it actually relieves stress from your servers. A few years ago, before there were updaters, sites like Curse and WowInterface would not load at all on patch day. You should be thankful.
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Are you aware of how Wowmatrix operates ? Last time I checked it scraps each addon page ie it loads it up 3 times to get the URL to download from. Arrowmaster of the wowace site was able to pull apart it's source code from memory. It doesn't have a list of addon download URLS. It has to load up each addon page to get that info. Also I choose to believe a network administrator like Kalvas and Dolby when they tell me it uses far more bandwidth then simply just loading up the page.
Thing is compare this content patch with the last content patch. Last content patch they did not block wowmatrix and had problems getting content to people (curse was inaccessible and wow interface went to low bandwidth a few times). Now compare it to now. On patch day I was able to load wowinterface.com and Curse up within 30 seconds. Last major content patch I couldn't get access to either site for several days after the patch. The evidence from what happened with the last major content patch seem to refute your statement.
If you want to make money off World of Warcraft, go work for Blizzard
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Ok we should then tell sites like mmo-champion, wow wiki , world of raids.com , wow head , that place that makes guild t-shirts , the company that makes figurines of your toons, hotels/restuarants during blizz-con, wow guide book companys , ISPs that do hosting for the realms , wow insider and a myraid amount of other companies/business that have wow-related products that they should no longer make money of World of Warcraft because they don't work for Blizzard ?
Rather silly statement.
I'm seeing a rash of these sort of posts. They make this 3 page essay type answer then sign it sincerely <name> like they are leaving teh wowinterface community forever
Did I just write another feeding the troll post ? Oh dear ...