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02-19-13, 05:59 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by pqee View Post
Sucks that people can't read that it's a BETA and you're going to take the heat for it.
This is a years-long issue dating back to the old WoWAce updater; back during TBC it was very common for authors to embed version checks into the AddOn communications channel - if you logged into WoW and had an "outdated" version, the typical response would be to go to WoWAce and download the latest ALPHA version, just so you'd be "up-to-date". This mentality carried over to the Curse Client, which allows the user to set the default version-type for ALL of their AddOns.

Many users have the default value set to Alpha (which will also pull down Beta and Release versions), and usually without too many issues since most authors realize the community mentality is broken and try not to push anything out that doesn't work right to the best of their knowledge. There are a few, however, who buck the trend (quite rightly, much to the dismay of such users) and will push out broken code because, after all, it's an Alpha.
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