Dear Curse

Patch 3.1, Macs, Curse Client: Round 2

It's done shaking out: a total of 8 addons simply won't be handled by the Curse client, due to the fact that the addons aren't hosted on Curse, and likely won't be. They are over at WoWI, which means I'll be updating some of my addons by hand, an inconvenience considering I have to update multiple machines. But since the Curse client is incapable of handling this situation, and WoWI is incapable of producing a client at all, apparently, I am stuck with this. It could be worse, of course; I do not maintain 100+ addon libraries on each machine.

Patch 3.1 appears... dare I say it?... stable, at this time. I was able to get into the first post-patch Wintergrasp on the server Suramar. We won that one. Unfortunately, it looks like the instance servers are buggy, since our attempt to go into the Vault failed. We had the 25-man raid, but the instance not only refused to let us all in, the few that did got stuck in there, and eventually disconnected. We'll try again another time.

The Curse client on Mac has some substandard features, but seriously, they are of limited scope. The data upload feature isn't even in there, yet, for no good reason I've read about. If there is one, Curse is keeping it a secret. The major problem is the control icons. They are not done right. "Right" in this case means that they are intuitive; a user can easily determine what each one is for. And that isn't the case here. Overall, tho, the application looks fine. In fact, it looks alot like WoWMatrix. A lot like it, in fact. I'm sure Curse has an excellent explanation for that.

Big problem this evening: the Curse network was saturated to the point of being unusable. This on the heels of several remarks made by Curse staff about how much less traffic they were dealing with, now that they killed off WM. Spoke too soon, I'd say.

Well, it's late, and we'll work with this more in the morning.

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