Have faith in the staff. I'm sure addons such as this won't qualify the author for a key.

I know firsthand that there are several uploads that were curse/wowace only (see that shiny green text to the left?). Although it's redundant to do so here as curse is holding the same giveaway now. Honestly, I expect 90% of these "new uploads" will get buried when/if they get a key and/or release rolls around.

Go ahead, you can quote me on it later. ;)

Is anyone else getting "The login server is currently busy" when they try to log in to the actual client? I finished patching it late last night and was getting various "can't log in" errors. There's a thread on the beta forums that might be about the same problem I'm having. I can't post on the beta forums because I don't have any characters to select to post as even though I copied my main over before I started patching (and it was instantly successful). I figured the maintenance would fix everything but I guess not. =/

Yes, please see this thread where we are discussing it: http://www.wowinterface.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=33899

I know Chaos :) I do have faith in the staff. I'm just so disappointed at these attempts to get beta keys. I just hope it doesn't hurt our community as a whole. We have a great bunch of people here. Yes Chaos even yourself ;) I like your blunt direct way of responding to people.

I didn't know that curse was holding the same event. WOW :X

In february i made easy mail addon.
http://www.wowinterface.com/download...?id=17191#info
Today upload this on site, becouse i want beta key.
I read rules: ..and don't find mail addons in this list. So why "Not Eligible for a key"? Or it hello world addon? :eek:
Sry for my english
Just i very very want to prepare my ui to cataclysm =)

Spend more time checking if some of these "daffy" (haha u get it? no? Oh .. i mean ...Duffed U :/) Compilations deserve a Key instead of uploading < 1kb Addons! : P

guy from my forum upload addon in 40 lines and get betakey :confused:

It's not the amount of lines that counts, it's how you use them :D

I'd actually be very interested in seeing this 40 line addon. Could you post a link to it?

No worries there Xruptor; this community is run (and populated) by the best group of people on the web. If we could get through the RealID fiasco without a hitch, this is a piece of cake! Or pie...

no =( He playing in beta now and i can't asking he -)
But as he say he very surprised what he get a key, becouse his addon in 40 lines

Soo.. You don't know the name of the addon, OR the author?

Hmmm...

*Hoping the sense of irony implied by the "hmmm..." is not lost in translation...*

If the addon is 40 lines of code and is actually unique and or useful, then I would see why. Otherwise, unless you actually POST a link to this addon or forum post then your just trolling. (using excuses)

Don't really see the point though in going into the comments on addons to accuse the author of this and that. Just let the admins/mods handle it.

I'd generally agree, if not for the fact that some people actually have said the reason for their upload was because of the give-away.

Well, the author in question has this on his info page;

To me, anyway, this kinda opens it up to some criticism...:rolleyes:

Maybe that particular one had it coming, but it's not the only one being subject to this. But anyway, just my opinion, don't want to go on about it.

/me clears her throat.

*ahem*

You guys know better. :)

I bad understand what you sayd but about
...how sayd admin on email, moderator deleted this by mistake:o

Going around to people's newly uploaded addons and accusing them of uploading it solely for the purpose of getting into the Cataclysm beta is not only immature, it discourages them from continuing to use WoWInterface because of how rude the community here is to them.

Agreed. I'm not gonna go into their comments to flame them about an addon. However I may be thinking it. Please be civil and have faith in the admins.

I'd have to agree with that. Even if they are posting "Hello, world!" quality addons just to get a key, I don't really see a point in being rude in return. The moderators are more than capable of sorting them out.

On the other hand, perhaps we would just be better without them...

... Holy mother of Zeus. The last patch just finished installing :eek:

* poof * (<-- Me vanishing)

Oh. I go sleep

I am guessing this is it until tomarrow?
Well, thanks again admins for putting this together for us.:)

Allow me to jump on board with a big thanks to the WoWInterface crew for netting us all beta keys again this year. It's greatly appreciated.

I know it's not the addon in question, but the one I ToC bumped to bring current is a whopping 15 lines. To be fair I do have a number of other addons. That's just the one I just to bring current, since it works exactly how I want it too.

Actually I like some of your mods :) OMFG and InviteMe are two good ones. Especially for all those people in Wintergrasp always asking for invites lol. The OMFG one made me chuckle as I lost count how many times that's happened to me.

Meh it happens every beta, the only thing which slightly frustrates me is when people copy their mods over from WoWAce/Curse never to return leaving incredibly old copies lying about.

And a nice bit of 15 lines for that matter. This is an excellent example of something simple, yet incredibly useful.

Exactly! That's pretty much what I thought as well.

Hm the Addon "Aero" was deleted. Think he didnt do it by himself? Can someone post the original addon pls?
And btw

"I dont deserve it
I know you got my last two letters
I wrote the addresses on 'em perfect!"
(dunno if its correct^^)

It wasn't done by the submitter, you can find the original at: http://forum.worldofwarcraft.ru/show...91#post3070191 but it's in Russian.

Shadowed, any idea when the next batch of keys is going out, if at all?

We're waiting on Blizzard to give us the next batch of keys. Hopefully will have them later today, but no promises.

I agree with Seerah's reply to this. This is an amazing way to encourage new people to join the wowi community!

Question.

I was trying to encourage a friend of mine who has designed a rather amazing UI to sign up, but she felt she did not deserve it. I totally understand your stance on compilations, but what about complete UI overhauls?

Is basically everything that's uploaded to the "Compilations & Suites" category disallowed and I should stop bothering her? Or should I continue to encourage her?

It would depend on what you mean by a "complete UI overhaul". If it is all other people's addons that she's put together, it just doesn't count, sorry. If she has written significant code herself, it likely will.

If that was the goal then I agree.

I think authors that have donated many hours of their time for no reward before this offer are more deserving then someone who put out a mod to get a key.

Ugg, not sure if I should be flattered or sick! ;)

Thanks for the reply!

Oh darn! Too bad I do not know how to write addons. But I bought that book and it made no sense XD

I am eagerly waiting for another batch of keys going out :)

Seems to be a lot of single click red button addons lately >.>

Dealing with them. They are all judgment calls, which we discuss with each other when we aren't sure. Keep on reporting them though. :)

you Cairenn!

It's funny how they all have exactly the same XML layout, very odd indeed.

Personally, I am withholding my amazing actionbar/auto-macro/minimap/questlog/uf/everything else I can think of addon, as I feel it would be unfair to overshadow all the existing addon authors.

You should thank me...

no, really..

Just spoke with Blizzard. They plan on sending us another batch of keys on Friday, so as long as nothing changes, we should be giving out some more keys then.

Thanks for the update!

Hi.

Do you accept compilations containing addons written by the uploader?

It would depend on the addon.

Alright, thanks for the speedy reply. Taking my chances then : ]

!




<3 you Voo :p

Once you've seen one XML layout... :D

Most of my XML was generated by either the WoW UI Designer or Eclipse, so I suspect it looks an awful lot like XML from a lot of other authors. (Granted, there is a LOT more of it than a single red button.)

... just saying :)

give me a key plz :o

Nice to see Cairenn giving beta keys again as in all previous beta. Have fun guys having a key but don't be too happy yet... servers are currently unplayable since yesterday. Lastest patch seem to be unstable.

Well.. see you in the beta!

And great job as always Cairenn.

/sit
/wait for 256
/tar Cairenn
/grin

I just created a US PvE (Lost Isles) Horde guild named <Lewd On Demand>, send an in-game tell or mail to Stirenjalav to get a guild invite.

Currently, the guild UI is broken, so I can't promote people or do much of anything with ranks or permissions.

Try /gpromote then

If you are going to upload an addon, please do not waste my time. I do not care how long an addon has existed before you uploaded it, because frankly it doesn't matter. Your addon description should not be a misdirected comment about why you should get a beta key for an addon, and instead should be a description of the addon.

You will not convince me.

Some people actually did that? Lol...

Heres a question I have. Looks like in the first batch of keys that went out there were around 200. Do you think we can see that many come tmorrow?

You have NO idea .... /growl

Hoping to see that many, yes. :)

Wow... I mean yesterday my first update to my addon was just a toc update becasue it was still compatible with everything i jsut havent updated it in forever. then i posted 2 new updates on it later in the day fully givin it new data. Im not bad am I :)... lol... Kool so i should see my in tomorrow?