There will be fewer people downloading things they never should have, because they were works in progress and not ready for release.
Trust me, a broken release being pushed to curse.com is going to be worse than any number of clueless people using trunk. Atleast when they're using the trunk they're going to get the fix right away when it's commited.
I think there is a huge amount of underestimation of how much WAU contributed to the success of Ace addons.
Release often release early. That's how you prevent bugs.
Within minutes of a commit addon authors here would get reports if something broke. That's now gone. It's sad. Now there will be broken 'releases' downloaded by millions. :(
Free addon access must die if you're going to charge for it.
That's really the only reason. There are countless ways files.wowace.com could have been kept alive but there would be no benefit for curse.com then.
And they after all own wowace.com. I think being clear on this issue would have prevented much confusion. Curse has been supporting wowace for a long time so I don't think everyone would have had a problem with just being told that "We need to make money on these users somehow. So free download can't continue."
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Trust me, a broken release being pushed to curse.com is going to be worse than any number of clueless people using trunk. Atleast when they're using the trunk they're going to get the fix right away when it's commited.
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Release often release early. That's how you prevent bugs.
Within minutes of a commit addon authors here would get reports if something broke. That's now gone. It's sad. Now there will be broken 'releases' downloaded by millions. :(
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That's really the only reason. There are countless ways files.wowace.com could have been kept alive but there would be no benefit for curse.com then.
And they after all own wowace.com. I think being clear on this issue would have prevented much confusion. Curse has been supporting wowace for a long time so I don't think everyone would have had a problem with just being told that "We need to make money on these users somehow. So free download can't continue."
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L["Greater Firepower"],
Should be added before line 87 in BigBrother.lua