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UI Packs on CurseForge

UI Packs are no longer supported as projects on CurseForge. We will have a proper system for UI Packs sometime soon. Thank you for your patience.

We are also going to be removing existing UI Packs from CurseForge.

If you are the author of an affected project, you'll receive an e-mail about this.

If for some reason your legitimate project is removed, or you feel your project meets the Project Acceptance Policy, please send in a report (link will be provided in the email) or join us on IRC. Someone will be more than happy to assist you.

There are legal issues surrounding UI Packs, mostly revolving around whether the author of the addons in question approves of his or her addon(s) being in the UI Pack in question. We want to preserve everyone's rights, including the original addon creators.

The new UI Packs system that we'll be unrolling soon will have the following benefits:

  1. You'll always point to the latest version of the addons you want.
  2. No need to create packages manually and upload them.
  3. Authors will be properly attributed for their hard work.
  4. Lack of legal issues
  5. Optional glue code addition and/or Saved Variables

We're wiping the slate clean, so please bear with us as we go through this transition and forgive us for any inconveniences this may cause.

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  • Avatar of ghaleon1103 ghaleon1103 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:20:34

    I want this capability back with a fierceness!! Any updates?

  • Avatar of utchat utchat Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:17:16

    is there any update yet on when ui packs will be available? i was usuing the last version of aton's ui which i think is absolutely fantastic. can't find out if he's made a new one for 3.0.2 patch?

    any ideas guys? would be cool to mail him to ask.

  • Avatar of AesirRising AesirRising Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:16:05

    @Joseline : "Thought i'd mention the typo "bear" which is actually "bare" "

    That's awesome. No, it's bear with us. 'Bear' as in the verb. Really. It's ok though, because we all learn a bit each day.

    For example, I learned over the course of this transition that as an addon user, it's pretty difficult to find an up-to-date version of a stand-alone addon from either curse or wowace. Being unable to download a UI pack or compilation suite/mod is not a great thing either.

    As a minor contributing developer for an addon that is mirrored at all the major sites, I couldn't really consider curseforge.com or wowace.com at this time if I were to look for primary repository services. Even if things 'work' as far as SVN access.. which I'm not sure they do, I'd still need to consider how much work remains to be done just to get the user portal at curse.com to function correctly for our audience of users. Really, rather than blow time deleting other people's compilations (the "UI packs" mentioned) why not work out why addons marked as 'favorites' tend to randomly show up as being "Updated" with the wrong date? Or why a user logged in at curse.com can't click one of the blog links off the main page and comment - without getting fed a page that indicates the person needs to register for access to the site? There are a few other issues facing end-users of curse.com, and none of them are new issues.

    That said, it's almost a neat idea to provide a portal site (curse.com) and a developer service (curseforge.com) that in concept might help better connect authors with end-users - but there's real disconnect between the portal at curse.com and the end-users atm. This doesn't even consider the awful timing of this major back-end change/switch over from wowace to curseforge with respect to the pending releases of 3.0 and WotLK. It's just added a ton of overhead (i.e., wasted time) for addon authors at a time when focus should be on either setting up for compatibility for 3.0 and Wrath, or the addressing feature requests or bug fixes for their addons. From a beta users' perspective, it's much of the same problem - where you need to get a hold of the latest bug-fix/compatibility release for a WoW v3.0/WotLK addon, but can't even find it anymore. Unless you go to another non-curse family site to get it.


    Anyway, this transition isn't going very well. The lack of legal issues might make curse.com lawyers happy. I don't know. It kills collaborative efforts however, and it's killing the connection between end-users and authors that are trying to support the users. When you look at how many hurdles we're jumping through at the moment - even as just users - in order to get an up-to-date version of an addon from this site, it doesn't appear to be worth the effort at all. I can't really bear to watch this unfold anymore. That said, good luck. Hope it works out for you.

  • Avatar of Josaline Josaline Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:10:04

    "We're wiping the slate clean, so please bear with us as we go through this transition and forgive us for any inconveniences this may cause. "

    Thought i'd mention the typo "bear" which is actually "bare"

  • Avatar of Villainelle Villainelle Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:07:26

    When you guys do this, will you still allow us to package in extras with the addons, like settings files that are separate from Saved Variables and other stuff?

    Also, will there be an option not to automatically get the latest version of a mod until the compilation author approves it? Sometimes heavily tweaked compilations may need to be updated to work with new versions of a mod and will break if a mod they depend on is changed drastically...etc.

  • Avatar of cashtro cashtro Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:58:22

    hai is this the issue that my project from curse gaming is deleted?? anyway i don't really understand u guys but i am outta here and going to wow interface bay bay

  • Avatar of Afk Afk Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:13:27

    The author of this announcement is on the list.

  • Avatar of instant instant Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:24:50

    Legal issues of combining addons to a pack with a nice help file? ...

    Some addon authors are taking themselves a bit too serious if they even consider legal recourse after someone is nice enough to combine it in a package for less technical users. I know a lot of addons during my WoW time did'nt bother "explaining" that much, so users had to rely on addon packs to even get them working, and get an idea on how the addons could be used.

    As long as they get credited they should be happy their addon is used and made more accessible, in any way, even forks.

    Public Domain ftw.

    Edit: But the changes you are doing seem ok at least. Just seems silly that this is even a problem that you have to make changes for. Could you please just.. list who are the complaining authors, so we know who to avoid?


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