![]() ![]() ![]() But if that's what had to happen for Curse and WI to keep their doors open, that's what had to happen. So although I recognize that WoWMatrix was putting a drain on the sites, I'm sad that there is no longer a pleasant way for me to update all of my addons, and at best (when the WI updater is released) I'll need to run two separate programs to do the work that WoWMatrix used to do on its own. It also didn't find about half of my addons, including some that I know are on the Curse site, like ClearFont2.įurthermore, the WoW Interface updater, the only other game in town as far as I can see, appears to have been in limbo for quite some time. Unfortunately, the Curse Client for Mac is a work of pure evil uses a lot of obtrusive and non-standard interface elements, as well as being pretty unstable, so I'm not a huge fan of it I'm not sure how the Windows version stacks up. The idea is that we will now use the official tools provided by those sites: Curse Client from Curse, and an updater that is still in the works for WoW Interface. No more wasting time manually checking WoW AddOn websites and downloading AddOns. So it is with mixed feelings that I report that Curse and WoW Interface have gotten their heads together and figured out a way to keep WoWMatrix from accessing their files, which means WoWMatrix is of little use going forward. WowMatrix is a 100 FREE WoW AddOn Installer and Updater that is completely safe to use and contains no Keyloggers or Spyware. ![]() It sucks down bandwidth from sites like Curse and WoWInterface like crazy, and displays its own ads while doing so. I don't know the guy who makes WM, nor do I have any stake in the success of WM, other than the fact that it is the ONLY working program to update WoW addons in Linux.WoWMatrix is a program of dubious morality. It is alittle wonky to use however, and abit slow (downloading addons is fast, same speed as curse client, if not faster) but the actual installation of the addon takes 10-25sec sometimes. I have been using WowMatrix for over a year now, and have yet to run into any problems with it (other than a GTK error if it's placed in the /usr/bin folder on a 'nix machine). Most "common use" addons are included with Wowmatrix, such as Grid, DBM, Recount, Skada, Healbot, Bagnon, gladius, and quite a few more. It also does not host any addon without the authors express permission, or without proof that it falls under the open-source usage category.Īlso, I've yet to run across an addon that said it was at it's current version in WowMatrix, that wasn't, or had a more advanced version on curse or wowinterface. It also does not scrape any other website for it's addon database, and uses it's own database and bandwidth. It no longer edits TOC or Lua files of addons, I've compared said files across 30+ addons that are avalible though the program aswell as another site (mainly curse) and the md5 and SHA1 checksums of the files are 100% identical, proving they have not been tampered with (Yes, theoretically, you could create 2 files with different contents that have the same md5 or sha1, but not both, the computing power and time required would be enormous) It was a horrible program and was also fairly useless. ![]() Maybe there is a link to a donate button, but if that author has signed up for the Curse Author Rewards program, then none of the downloads via the WowMatrix client or site count.īack in 2009, 10 and 11 all of the allegations against WowMatrix were 100% true. Not that my AddOns are hosted there anyway, as I have served cease and desist orders.įor authors, there is another factor, which has little bearing on users. If someone ever came up to me and claimed one of my AddOns was broken, and I learned they got it from WM, I'd tell that person they are their own. Once changed, the AddOn author is under zero onus to provide support. A few of those extras have contained viral code. I have even seen them add "bonus" files the author never intended. One other thing: since WM is supported by pretty much nobody in the community, if you update your AddOns with them, even if said AddOns are legal for them to host, the WM client modifies the files, specifically the ToC (but I've seen Lua files). WM does something else sneaky as well: AddOns that were previously public domain or open source but since have been changed (the majority of the community was justifiably angry) have old versions being hosted –– yet are advertised as being current. The only AddOns hosted or accessible to WowMatrix are open source or public domain, or variants thereof most of the big popular AddOns that people want are legally not available to WM. ![]()
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