WowAce.com

The road ahead, or how I finally got the forums off of layaway.

This is where we stand.

  • Repos are fully imported, and to my knowledge we have no open issues regarding them (please correct me if I'm wrong.)
  • Files import continues but should be finishing shortly. We've done a breadth scan in order to import files for all projects before doing depth imports.
  • Forum import is done, we've also reorganized the forums a few times, we hope it meets your satisfaction, and we hope that if there is some feedback that you'll share it :)
  • User accounts did import from the old forums, however there are still some random issues we've found that have a chance of messing things on occasion. A few things to note
    • It is possible to have your accounts renamed, please let me know if you want this. ( I do have a list of reqs that I'm going to try to knock out tomorrow.
    • If you're not able to log into the forums still let me know. Please confirm this though as we have fixed multiple issues that literally affected THOUSANDS of users each.
    • If you are logged into the forums but all your posts are on another account like 'yourname2' or 'user_134234' contact me and we'll get them merged into your main account.
  • As of yesterday afternoon projects began syndicating to Curse.com, and showing up in the Curse Client. However WAU will not officially be retired till we get a few more kinks worked out of the CC. We hope to be able to get new builds for PC AND MAC out on Monday. I've been using the mac client for the last few days and its been pretty stable and offers most of the core functionality from the windows version. If you want to help beta test drop my a PM on the forums :)

Here are a few Q&A's that might help you along:

Q: I miss the old "new posts since my last visit links" from SMF
A: While not the same there are equivalent features. on the new forums. To see all new posts available on the forums since your last visit click 'New Posts' on the sub nav bar in the forums. To see new replies to your posts you'll have to have subscriptions on the ones you want to track. And can then see all new replies that way.
Q: OMG! Fixed-width! EWEEEEE!
A: ITs come to my attention that many of you aren't really a fan of the whole fixed width thing. Therefore I'm reviewing my options on making it optional. Expect something shortly.
Q: Will/Does the new Curse Client support disembedded addons?
A: No it does not currently. Yes it will soon.
Q: What happened to the wiki and all its docs?
A: It's still available at old.wowace.com. We will be importing articles as time goes on, and you're encouraged to do the same for your projects.
Q: Where is my mac client! WHERE!! TELL ME NOW!!!!!
A: First, please don't eat me! Second, right here. We've got the crashes out, and its working pretty well. A few things though
  • Back up your addons. Just in Case(tm).
  • Not all feature present in windows are 100% implemented, but the core ones are.
  • There are still a few known bugs, but we're squashing those daily.
  • Bad auto detections should be mostly fixed now, please advise us if you find any!
  • Again, disembedded support is not in yet, please be patient while we finish it.
Q: Will the curse client continue to receive updates, or is it done?
A: Nope, it will continue to receive updates and fixes, further refinement and features all for you guys for a long time to come.
Q: How much will this whole, 'premium' thing cost?
A: For authors? Nothing, we got you on this one. For users? No more than $3.00/month or as little as $20.00 a year. More info in the FAQ linked at the bottom.
Q: Why should I pay that, or whats what money going towards?
A: A few things:
  • Pay for the service. All that bandwidth fees was eating us alive.
  • Future development and services. We want to offer you guys more, A LOT MORE.
  • No ads, not that many of you don't block them, and that wowace even has any (anymore we used to, but not now). However, this will apply to the whole of the Curse Network.
  • AuthorRewards. Guys I can't stress how cool this is. For the first time authors will be able to reap something for all the hard work they've sown. The authors deserve this hands down. More info in the FAQ linked to below.

We've also been responding to issues:

  • Forums
    • More than 10k people had issues logging in, this has been largely if not completely fixed. Please let me know if you're still not able to log in.
    • Originally it was announced that the forums would be shared with curseforge, turns out despite their quite at the time people didn't like the idea. So as promised the forums have been separated.
  • Usability & Accessibility
    • I've tried to make the site easy and intuitive to use. In some cases I've failed, especially for those with poor eyesight. I apologize.
    • I'll be adding the ability for the forum to optionally render in variable width mode.
    • Timestamps will soon be customizable, both in format and timezone.
    • Font sizes. I'm examining several other examples of cleaner typography and I plan to make some changes to this soon.
    • Colors. I wanted to keep the old site colors because it'd leave people with at least ONE thing that was familiar. Now that the site is out I will soon feel more free to experiment with them. I hope to eventually offer multiple color schemes, including high contrast, darker, and cool colors.
  • Template issues
    • Sometimes a really long title will cause things to wrap undesirably, thus forcing the sub nav off the sub nav bar. This is *bad*. I'll be truncating to fix it.
    • Diffs currently don't render properly in the change logs on some pages. They fly off the edge of the site.
    • Scroll bar when at 1280x1040. I'm aware, and do want to fix this. It's due to the images at the top right iirc.
  • Repos
    • The repositories had issues during the import, however we've fixed many(all?) of these. Please report any problems pronto and I'll beat it with a hammer until it works for you.
  • Accounts
    • When we imported accounts we imported them from the old forums, not from the svn accounts. Therefore the old svn accounts no longer work.
    • Some accounts need to be renamed and or merged on the forums. I'll be taking care of these over the next few days. Please notify me if you fall into one of these categories.

I'll be rereading this after some much needed sleep, and make edits then.

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  • Avatar of Anubre Anubre Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:27:25

    the curse client is shit ... u cant go to addons wiki, this "links" -> "See Addon", "Details" dont work, wow - good done to a simple thing, crap programmers i hope curse will be hacked an all is away... ( u know, everything is hackable)

  • Avatar of xenoverse xenoverse Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:57:45

    Kaelten, somehow my forums username has been changed from xenoverse to xenoverse2. I am pretty sure I am the only user of this name and I had the name xenoverse since before the merge. I also hold the username xenoverse on curse.com

    Can you find out what happened there and maybe I can get xenoverse back?

    Thanks,

  • Avatar of Kaelten Kaelten Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:56:14

    Thrillolol: I know the old curse.com you're talking about it. It made me hesitant to work here.

    Now two years later I can say a lots changed int he company, and it's a much better place than it was before.

    We have our issues, but we're committed to fixing them. I don't know what more you can ask for really. (other than no issues ever, but we're not there yet)

    WowAce.com & CurseForge.com Adminstrator
    Developer of Ace3, OneBag3, and many other addons and libraries
    Project lead and Mac developer for the Curse Client

  • Avatar of Thrillolol Thrillolol Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:35:44

    Have the wowace-addons even all been ported over to curse? Jeez, I try to be open about this whole deal but I always have to think about how crappy, shitty, fuckedup, stupid, sonofaowehasidbvish curse.com was in the past. And probably still is...

    curse you curse.cum! and fuck you, capitalism! and you inventorOfMoney! DIAF!

    why can't the world be just like in startrek?! no money, no masskilling of animals and humans! everyone is vegan! everything is about personal growth and not exploitation of others.

    what a shitworld we live in...

    ...bleh, whatever...

  • Avatar of Thrillseeker Thrillseeker Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:02:20

    Hi!

    - Will the curse-client be the only client, that is allowed/capable of updating wowace-addons?
    - Is there a chance for a modular or premium-light version of CC? I don't need any kind of stupid charprofiler!
    - Will the CC be able to update addons from other sites such as wowinterface.com?

  • Avatar of NightOw1 NightOw1 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:38:04

    Kaelten, Things are odd with my account database.

    I have tried to recover my old login name with www.curse.com, and have received a password reset notify. But the password was never mail to me. Meanwhile, I found this account password is also reseted. And I have to recoverd the password on curse again.

    It will much appreciate if you can help me to recover my old login name.

    Thanks.

  • Avatar of Cleptor Cleptor Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:02:36

    Any chance to get the terrible date notation fixed? International ISO 8601 and EN 28601 suggest using YYYY-MM-DD for date notation. It gives me a hard time even trying to figure when comments were posted here.

  • Avatar of bender72 bender72 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:26:47

    @Seerah  THX

    I know the CurseClient. is  shit.

  • Avatar of U1pa U1pa Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:07:58

    What about Linux client?

  • Avatar of stylefetisch stylefetisch Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:06:42

    @Raze !! Ok thx for this :)  !

Table of contents

  1. 1 This is where we stand.
  2. 2 Here are a few Q's that might help you along:
  3. 3 We've also been responding to issues:
  4. 4 Potentially helpful links:

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Date created
03 Oct 2008
Last updated
03 Oct 2008

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