Is this addon now dead?
Rythal, are you still working on it, or have you given up completely? I think this is a fair question to ask since you have not informed us of anything about your current status (real life or any work you're doing on the addon), or your intentions about this addon's future. That would be nice. :(
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would hate to abandon...but.....
I would hate to abandon my most beloved addon, but it may have come time to jump ship since it is pretty useless now and there seems to be no news coming our way. Strange, because it still sits atop WoW Interface's homepage as a most favorite/downloaded addon. Even Blizzard has used some of it's ideas. So sad.:( Anybody have a decent alternative?
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I'd say it's completely dead. Even the alpha version is far too buggy to be tolerated.
Really sucks, I loved this thing. |
Yep. I still hold hope that since its open source someone will adopt it and fix it up. Until then.. the map still works as well as notes relatively well.. just delete the other modules especially the quest one. Use QuestHelperLite, QuestGuru to replace some of the Quest module functionality.
It was good while it lasted. I am hoping the map module works to WoD and beyond. I may learn lua scripting to hopefully know enough to bugfix the map module when new patches come out if nobody else does, to adapt to new API changes in the addon API framework. |
You people are ridiculous. Rythal had to work multiple jobs last month and may still be doing so to fund his trip to Blizzcon and then had some ignorant person cause him financial issues which hopefully he reported them for fraud. Remember, he was a beloved user of the addon that kindly took it over and has been working hard to further develop and turn it into something better. Kreelor for example the last few posts have been nothing but doubting Rythal and endless claims that an addon is dead. Creating addons is not a job so people demanding things to be done need to take a step back. The addon is still in it's beta stages meaning there's going to be bugs and you accept this by using it.
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I'm just wondering what is going on and what his plans are, or if this addon is now dead! He's the only one who can answer that, if he chooses to. It should take no more than a couple of minutes to do so. |
The easiest thing is to assume the addon is dead. If you find the current code to be lacking some feature you might want to find someone to provide that feature. If you make public your efforts to get this done, the community and any involved in the current project (i.e., Rythal) will be aware and may chime in. Just move forward and if Rythal wants to, and is able to comment, I am sure you will see a comment. But please stop these types of postings as they seem like whining. A much more interesting post would be an enumerated list of issues, and asking for help to fix them.
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Everybody seems to be more intent on attacking me, accusing me of whining, etc. while circumventing the simple questions I asked. There was no whining, or anything like that. I'm sorry you read something else into it.
BTW, I've noticed that there are many 'addon authors' who post here, yet I haven't seen any volunteers providing help. The addon has been open-source for over a year, so why should everybody expect Rythal to do it all, especially if he isn't able to for various reasons? If I was skilled enough to make the changes, I would. To reiterate, I only want to know what's going on? It's a fair question without any malice intended. |
I only attacked you because I see your name pretty frequently when it comes to bugs so I decided to view your posting history and out of the last 7 messages over a 3 month period each time it was saying he disappeared or the addon appears dead. Also, just because someone has the addon author logo doesn't mean they want to partake in said addons development. I know I for example am probably only intermediate when it comes to addon development and seeing all the complaints from people all the time would drive me away, not worth the hassle imo. I don't use the addon, was never particular with it which is another reason why I wouldn't participate with it. All I've done was create the banner for v2. :P
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I've been using Carbonite for about 3years now and I have read the posts about Rythal's personal situation.
Horrible as they they were, IMHO it's about time the situation regarding Carbonite was updated. I think the OP has a valid point. There's a complete lack of recent info about plans for Carbonite and the lack of posts from the Author is not very helpful. I've been using the Alpha/Beta for many months now and quite simply it's VERY Buggy, tho useable. IMO WOWInterface should remove Carbonite from it's featured list until it becomes quite clear exactly what is planned for Carbonite. This is not an attack on anyone it's a sincere post regarding the plans for Carbonite. |
The only current bug that I am aware of is that for some people the quest module causes hiccups, however no one has been able to see a cause for it, and of the 3 machines I run Carbonite on I have to this point not been able to reproduce it... I have started 10 or so new characters in new zones doing the quests upto level 20 trying to have it happen... I have done the quests in pandaria trying to have it happen, but no luck so far... I can't fix what I can't see.
Nihm, sorry I thought I had replied to your message and i'll check / reply again. |
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I am one who donated years ago, because frankly I thought it was the best addon anyone had ever made for WoW, as well as what should be standard for WoW addons. Which is one thing that the OP forgot to mention in one of his posts regarding why the question; some of us donated, and I believe we have every right to know what's going on with it an addon that we paid for. |
You didn't buy a product, you gave the original developers of the Carbonite addon a gift. That entitles you to beat your chest and say "I donated!" and nothing more. Aside from that, you gave no gift to Rythal, so even if such gift giving did entitle you to something more, it wouldn't entitle you to that from him.
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He did post in this thread.
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I started this topic (as Original Poster) with a simple question to Rythal (specifically). Yes, he (Rythal) has posted in this thread (about things that don't relate at all to my original post), but he has never bothered to answer my Original Post, and I believe it was a courteous, simple question for him to answer. I imagine that many other people are still wondering what I'm wondering, yet it goes unanswered for 2 weeks now. It's almost 4 months now since he released 5.4.0 Alpha 2. |
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If it's dead it's dead and maybe someone else will take it up. If not, eventually something will break and the last of us will be forced to move to something else. If anyone had told me 10 years ago I'd sill be playing WoW I would have laughed in their face. |
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I understand that dude who took it over prolly never saw any of that money years ago, but you too have a donate button where it is hosted, at least on curse. I doubt he can claim he hasn't had a donation since he took it over. Anyways, like the last post said, if its dead it's dead. |
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