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Come on!!
"WoWInterface and Curse working together to help protect authors and other site-users", who are you trying to fool here? Do you think we are all retarded?
Fact:
Curse and wowinterface clients suck. Why? Because both updaters were designed from the addon-hosting-site perpective or from the addon-developer perspective. The updater developers have not put themselves in the end-user shoes not for 1 minute.
I read someone wrote that he likes to update his 100+ addons by hand, and by visiting the 100+ addon pages on curse or wowinterface he could find out what the last changes were, what others are thinking about the new features, what the developer is planning to do next, etc. Well, newsflash! End-user DONT CARE that bug #1242 was fixed and that the addon author added a new slash-command that can do some fancy stuff he doesnt care about. End-user wants to update the addon that doesn't work anymore or just make sure he has the latest version. Because having the latest version is "good" as far as he was told.
The most important feature of the curse and and wowinterface updaters is to get the end-user on their site. Period. That's why they designed this tools. And that's why these updaters suck. Badly. Example of bad developing perspective: what's the point in having the Curse addon resident in system tray and spam me with news I don't even care about? I want it to update ALL my addons, when I want (twice-a-week or after a patch), then close and free up system resources so I can have +1 fps. Is this too much to ask?
About stealing the bandwidth:
From the bandwidth pov, what's the difference if I update my addons twice-a-week via WowMatrix or via the Curse+WowInterface clients? The same amount of bandwidth is used.
WowMatrix is a program that has a list of download links to addons hosted on different sites. It helps you download addons hosted on different sites. It's an "cross-site updater" for gods sake. This is what it was supposed to do. Help you download addons from different sites. And it does it good.
It's not the evil entity called WowMatrix that steals bandwidth for itself. It's me, the end-user, downloading addons twice-a-week from different sites that were supposed to make it easy for me to download these addons. What bothers you (curse+wowinterface) is that I don't get to visit your pages on a twice-a-week basis. In fact not visiting you pages and only downloading the zip files costs you less bandwidth.
Saying that WowMatrix steals bandwidth it's like saying that a news-reader (e.g Bloglines) is stealing bandwidth from the news sites. Maybe the news sites also wanted to present me with some nice juicy ads and also help you with related news, help you create an account on their site, write to their forums, post your opinion, etc. BUT THE END-USER DOES NOT WANT THAT! End-user want to read the news each morning between 10.00 and 10.20.
I know most people reading this thread are addon developers and addon-hosting sites administrators so I don't expect you to understand the "end-user perspective". But I really get angry when someone calls me an idiot in the face using words like "WoWInterface and Curse working together to help protect authors and other site-users". It's not about the addon authors and not about the end-user. It's all about you trying to serve me some ads. No thank you.
Cheers,
Gelu Kelu
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