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As a mac user with far too many addons for my own good...I used Wowmatrix because it worked well, and I had heard Curse's client did not.When Wowmatrix was blocked, I tried out Curse's client....: (I'm very happy to hear about this new, mac-friendly app.Staying tuned...
My rant:1. I am excited about Minion. An alternative to curse is always welcomed by me. The fact that curse charges to use their non-gimped version of their manager says a lot about them. That and their blatant ripoff of wowhead (wowdb?).2. I will agree with Kerafirewing in that WoW Matrix was a great tool. They actually seemed to give a crap what the community and their users thought. In fact, every complaint against them had been addressed over time. Addon authors complained about not having a way to get donations; I found plenty of addons that had a link to the download site AND the donation site. Authors complained about not getting credit for their work and said wowmatrix was passing the addons off as their own, yet I always found the author's name in the info tab.What I think is most ironic is how download sites complain about wowmatrix "making money" from ads, yet are going to do the same thing. Seriously, what do you all think the new Curse Client is doing? In fact they have a subscription version to suppress ads! Finally, the bandwidth issue is a non-issue. Consider that all of the users of wowmatrix will be using some other "sanctioned" client to download addons en masse. The previous bandwidth issues will still be there. The new clients won't magically create more bandwidth. Nothing will really be different once these things get released.This could have all been solved had Curse not been so greedy and the addon sites just worked with wowmatrix in the first place instead of restricting them. I am truly glad that this Minion will be released with the same spirit as wowmatrix: Let the users download a bunch of addons and get back to playing the game already.
wowhead is such a selloutedit: this is sarcasm
Sweet.
Well hope it replaces wowmatrix cuase that was awesome for keeping my addons updated and curse basically told me off for using it (wowmatrix) when I was forced to install that to update a few addons since wowmatrix got blocked.
Wow, this looks like it might be a fairly good advancement in the Addon management landscape. A single program, which people then write addons for, which can connect in their own way. It means that not only can there be one program for performing updates, but also that people can host their addons outside the big sites and still have auto-updating abilities (Deadly Boss Mods could create a module for their addon specifically, that updates the moment a new version is on their website, as opposed to having to wait till sites like Curse are updated, or waiting on users manually updating).It also comes at an interesting time, as I was recently considering a Wow-related project (that would never get off the ground because im lazy :D ) and as an addon to Minion it would be useful. Would Minion be supporting only Downloads, or might it maybe support Uploads as well (for example, the Wowhead Looter could run entirely through Minion)?
The last addon manager I used was WoWAce's Mac client. It crashed sometimes but it did the job of finding my Ace-based addons and updating them as needed well enough. Then it went kaputzy and I didn't even bother seeing if Curse had a Mac client after my boyfriend tried the Curse client out and.. well.. he had terrible experiences with it.It would be convenient to have an addon manager again, so I'll try this one out. Can't actually give true feedback until I use it for a while, yes?
i wouldnt mind trying this program...i used to once use wowmatrix but its been closed out of different places so my mods doesnt update..but ive tried curse client...its screwd up my mods...and paying to get services for mods wich is free...