Heya, I just noticed that - http://files.wowace.com/ - looked diffrent cause of what I belive is called "WowAce's Packagemancer". Since I frequentlly visit the site and grab the correct addon names for EU's interface forums I allways found it convinient to just make a page search (CTRL+F) and type in what you want/need or the name of the addon you kinda know.
I therefore request a function to "Show all addons", or to go back to how it looked before, but I would in the same sentence also expres my deepest gratitude to this site and it habitants, you sure make wow a better game then it allready is.
1. it's not compatible with Safari (the table doesn't show)
2. when i view the page with Firefox there's nothing in the Revision fields (just a "-")
I can live with problem number 1, but i really would like to see the revisions for the packages. I manually update my addon packages every day based on the revision numbers.
Any chance someone could fix this? (i'd love to be able to use Safari, but as i said worst case i just use Firefox)
If i for example want to get the latest Skinner i could do the following:
1. Browse through 25 pages on the new Packagemancer and wasting time (ok i would guess and find it after 3-4 pages)
2. Enter http://files.wowace.com/Skinner/Skinner.zip manually
Trimming down the files section is fine, and probably necessary considering how many addons there are now (it'll probably cut down on their bandwidth and hosting fees).
It looked like they were actually reading the addon details at runtime previously, but I think they're caching the page results now.
They have table sorting in, but it would be really nice if they:
1) Changed the index page to display only the category links, which would then display the addons in that category
2) Allow for specific-category viewing, and put links to all the different categories at the top of the index.
Trimming down the files section is fine, and probably necessary considering how many addons there are now (it'll probably cut down on their bandwidth and hosting fees).
If you looked at the HTML of the source page, you will realize that you still download the entire table of 900+ addons, but only 30 or so are being displayed at any one time instead of all 900. This is pretty bad design, doesn't reduce bandwidth used in any way, and users now have to guess which page an addon is on to find it, and can no longer search all 900 at a go.
I.e, The new design lost functionality and gained nothing new at all apart from seeing the category type. In fact the new design requires extra bandwidth since there are new columns.
Please change this back, or make the old view default. The new view breaks the macaceupdater and it's hell to navigate manually. The old big page was working just fine.
edit: and if someone thinks the change is badly needed, make it an option, not the default. Or host it at a new url.
Please change this back, or make the old view default. The new view breaks the macaceupdater and it's hell to navigate manually. The old big page was working just fine.
Want to shut up, calm down, and be patient? It only just went up yesterday, it will get better, an a-z sorting is being written.
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I therefore request a function to "Show all addons", or to go back to how it looked before, but I would in the same sentence also expres my deepest gratitude to this site and it habitants, you sure make wow a better game then it allready is.
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1. it's not compatible with Safari (the table doesn't show)
2. when i view the page with Firefox there's nothing in the Revision fields (just a "-")
I can live with problem number 1, but i really would like to see the revisions for the packages. I manually update my addon packages every day based on the revision numbers.
Any chance someone could fix this? (i'd love to be able to use Safari, but as i said worst case i just use Firefox)
1. Damn hippies
2. Works fine in my Firefox... see (1)
2.) Works for me now as well, didn't before, guess it was added during the short down time :)
i can live with that, seems to work just fine now in Firefox. I also found that i can use NewsFire to read and download the latest files.
** i may be old (50+) and i may use a mac, but i'm not a hippy by any standards... :)
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What we have here, I think, is a classic case of denial.
Happens a lot with the mac hippies.
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20060513
*evil grin*
1. Browse through 25 pages on the new Packagemancer and wasting time (ok i would guess and find it after 3-4 pages)
2. Enter http://files.wowace.com/Skinner/Skinner.zip manually
*wants the old one back*
It looked like they were actually reading the addon details at runtime previously, but I think they're caching the page results now.
They have table sorting in, but it would be really nice if they:
1) Changed the index page to display only the category links, which would then display the addons in that category
2) Allow for specific-category viewing, and put links to all the different categories at the top of the index.
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Curse PremiumIf you looked at the HTML of the source page, you will realize that you still download the entire table of 900+ addons, but only 30 or so are being displayed at any one time instead of all 900. This is pretty bad design, doesn't reduce bandwidth used in any way, and users now have to guess which page an addon is on to find it, and can no longer search all 900 at a go.
I.e, The new design lost functionality and gained nothing new at all apart from seeing the category type. In fact the new design requires extra bandwidth since there are new columns.
* A "view all" mode
* A Simple search
* Paging by Alpha instead of 25 or whatever addons
edit: and if someone thinks the change is badly needed, make it an option, not the default. Or host it at a new url.
I vote for all 3! :D
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Forum ModeratorWant to shut up, calm down, and be patient? It only just went up yesterday, it will get better, an a-z sorting is being written.