Authors CurseForge

Hey guys!

We are excited to announce that we will be able to help our WoW authors get access to Legion's Beta!

In order to participate in this, you must be a member of a WoW project on either WowAce.com or CurseForge's WoW portal and you must have your Battle.net email address filled in. Don't worry about other users getting your Battle.net email, this information is only visible to you and the admins and will only be used for this (and possibly future) beta invites!

Please note that we are forwarding this list to Blizzard and ultimately in their discretion when and if you will receive a beta invite.

To fill in your Battle.Net email address you can go to your profile page and "Edit Battle.net Email".

See all you folks out there in Azeroth!

The time has come again for a CurseForge update! This time around we have a handful of new stuff coming to the sites. So, let's dive right into it.

Features

• Issues - Added the ability to attach gif, png, and zip files.
• Issues - Issue IDs are now scoped to the project.
• Pastebin - We launched our new pastebin module. You can find it at *.curseforge.com/paste. If you do not have it on your site, please let a moderator know in order for them to enable it.
• Site - You can now do syntax highlighting with code blocks!

Changes

• API - Markdown is now supported on ChangeLogs. Use ChangelogType='markdown'
• Localization - Listings will now pull 10 translations instead of 5.
• Projects - Project Owners can now view their own deleted projects.
• Projects - Authors can now set default relations to all files uploaded to a project. 
• Uploads -Added better error messages when an upload fails.  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Github repos with underscores were getting rejected.
• Fixed pagination issue on comments where pages would just cause the page to reload.

Telshin

Welcome to our first CurseForge update presented by Telshin (me), the Director of Web. One of my big initiatives with heading up the CurseForge project is to inform the community on things we have going on behind the scenes and to let you know when we deploy new features/fixes to CurseForge. Our main goal is to make the life of an author easy by providing the best platform to interact and distribute their creations to the community. Over the course of the next few months, I hope our new features will do just that. Without much further ado, I present our deploy notes for Oct 1, 2015.

Features

• Minecraft - ZenScripts can now be uploaded!
• Moderation - Numerous improvements to make moderators life a little nicer.
• Points - Added description field when adding bonus reward points.
• Projects - Added ability to define a file to file relationship.
• Projects - Added listing for project relations (dependents and dependencies).
• Projects - Added support for Markdown editing for Project description, pages, and changelogs.
• Projects - Added ability to upload attachments to a project issue.
• Projects - Added Client Match Exclusion functionality. This is for WoW style games.
• Projects - Added Twitter card support for Project Overview and File Detail pages.
• Projects - Removed IDs from project urls.

Misc

• Projects - Image gallery has received some aesthetic upgrades.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with site search failing when special symbols are in the search text.
• Fixed issue when processing ZIP files submitted from users on OSX would cause an error.
• Fixed issue where users would get a Forbidden page when creating a project issue.
• Fix for not sending a notification to a user who posted a comment on a project they are following.
• Fixed issue where setting comments to be unthreaded caused certain comments to disappear.

Feel free to reach out to me on Twitter. I will always do my best to answer any questions.

Telshin

tl;dr - fix, fix, fix, fix, enjoy!

Welcome to the author portal. We will be posting articles here about how to navigate the site, what project requirements are, the rewards program and API documentation.  Under the "Knowledge Base" button above you will find some helpful information on what is needed to start a project and get it approved. Under the "Rewards Program" button you will find information about how the author reward system works and taxes (a necessary evil). 

We will be posting more articles as we merge sites into this newer platform. If you see a topic you feel we have missed that you would like covered please use the feedback bar to the right. If you have a question about something in one of the articles or feel something needs clarified you can comment on the article or give us feedback using the bar to the right. 

We hope this site will help explain the systems and features in place better and make it a bit easier to know what we need for project approval.