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Curse client is ^&*! now, premium preview expired, so it's pure crap.
WOWMatrix stole bandwidth, didn't credit addon authors, and was an unsecure pile of crap. Use it at your own risk and if you don't care about honesty through things like copyrights, etc.What WOWUI is doing is creating a basic platform for updating mods but NOT stealing anyone's bandwidth. Instead, if another site wants to allow its mods to be updated with Minion they have to write a module and plug it into Minion. In other words, if Curse wanted to make its mods available through Minion, they'd have to provide the Curse module to allow access to Curse mods. In addition, they get to choose to allow or disallow bandwidth restrictions, ads, and control functionality access to their website.The legal AND ethical differences between Minion and WOWMatrix are huge.
I used Wowmatrix since I was told about it by my friends, in addition..Teh Curse thing is gimped for players... like some of the above people have mentioned...who wants to pay for something that used to be free? If anything people will shift towards supporting wowmatrix....trust me. Well anyways I'm looking foward to using Minion (like the name btw, it has a flare) and hope it goes well :)Edit:
One thing I really liked about the OLD OLD OLD version of the curse client was the 'install package...' option, think we'll have anything like this for installing a local package, or, even more convient installing an entire directories worth of zip/rar/.7z files at a touch, rather than having to open our utilities 50+ times or having to deal with the oft-buggy 'uncompress all of these files to X' type of option?
You all forget that curse is now charging for premium membership in order to use the update all feature.
As an addon Author, I think this is an overall good idea, inter-site compatibility is very nice. I think not being so integrated with the website will have a few negative effects, such as the search and install feature in the Curse client. I saw no mention of anything like that. It would be great if it would have a way to search all the sites or an offline-stored database of mods.One thing I never liked about WoWMatrix is that it depended on the Addon authors to make their addon work with it. I get requests to make my addon compatible with wowmatrix, but other sites will block the addon if I do that. I feel that any addon updater worth using shouldn't have to ask the authors to bend over backwards to make it work. Funny thing is, the website I hate the most has the largest user base... I don't use WoWMatrix so if they've made it work around that then fine.I am slightly offended by comments like the ones above made by Briest about only posting on certain sites. The addon sites are clunky enough as-is for authors, each making you jump through different hoops to upload a new version. Adding more sites I have to visit to upload, fighting for bandwidth with all the users trying to download updates in order to upload mine, and having to sift through forums on each site just to get some feedback makes it such a time-consuming hassle, and these comments make me feel unappreciated..As for downloads, I wish someone implement a torrent-based solution to spread the bandwidth around on patch day, this would work out best for all websites involved.I'm not holding my breath on this project, I will wait and see, but who knows what the future will hold.
I'm pretty put off by the recent changes to the Curse.com client, so I'll be looking forward to this one. :)