There seem to be numerous problems with the "my Curse" and "Favorite" sections of the Curse.com website.  Looking at "my Curse", on the main section of my profile, it tells me I am 78 years old.  Strangely enough I'm not 78, nor is there anywhere I can find that allows me to specify my birth date (or remove it).  I can change my location, gender, web address, web address, blog, gallery, language (what is the point in this?  There's only one language listed and that's US English) and public email, but not birth date.

The Stats section is also broken.  It tells me I've made 3 posts, and the number 3 is a link, but when I click on it it just says "Sorry, we were unable to find any results using your search terms. Please change your search terms and try again."

Looking at the Favorites section is even worse.  Curse no longer tells me which addons have been updated since I last logged on, even though it knows exactly when I last logged on because it tells me in my sign-in information.  Worse still, it tells me that the addons were last updated when someone last made a post on the comments thread for that addon.  This is completely useless.  I don't care when people make comments, I only care when the addon has been updated.  So now I need to look at each addon, compare the date on it with the last date I know I visited the site, then try and download it and see whether it tells me I already have an addon with that name.

And lastly, I find that addons are vanishing from my Favorites list, and from Curse.com itself, with no notification to me whatsoever.  If the author or Curse.com is deleting these addons then I damned well want to know about it, not just have it silently remove itself from my list.  Curse.com has gone to all the trouble of giving us a flashy site with all sorts of information but the only information that I actually care about - whether the addons I use were updated or discontined - is the only information it completely fails to provide.

Curse.com could be great, but in its current form it's no more useful than a series of links in my browser's Bookmarks folder.  Please, give us the information we want and need, not a load of crap we don't care about.

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Originally Posted by CommandoXXX

Looking at the Favorites section is even worse.  Curse no longer tells me which addons have been updated since I last logged on, even though it knows exactly when I last logged on because it tells me in my sign-in information.  Worse still, it tells me that the addons were last updated when someone last made a post on the comments thread for that addon.  This is completely useless.  I don't care when people make comments, I only care when the addon has been updated.  So now I need to look at each addon, compare the date on it with the last date I know I visited the site, then try and download it and see whether it tells me I already have an addon with that name.

And lastly, I find that addons are vanishing from my Favorites list, and from Curse.com itself, with no notification to me whatsoever.  If the author or Curse.com is deleting these addons then I damned well want to know about it, not just have it silently remove itself from my list.  Curse.com has gone to all the trouble of giving us a flashy site with all sorts of information but the only information that I actually care about - whether the addons I use were updated or discontined - is the only information it completely fails to provide.

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The language selection is for website localization; it's a built-in feature of Community Server that we can't really remove because it will mess with compatibility with future upgrades to the core code.  The age field, I'm guessing is related to you joining prior to the new backend (Community Server) in which you set it to that for one reason or another.  If this isn't the case, I'll take a look.  I'm not sure why we don't allow editing of age though, that's definitely a strange one.

Favorites disappearing mean that the projects related to those favorites are being removed from the website.  This can happen for multiple reasons: the author decided to delete the project, the project type (UI Compilations) are no longer supported on Curse, or it was removed at request by the original author of that particular Addon.

Thanks for the reply.  I can't think of any reason why I'd purposefully choose to list myself as 78 years old, no, so I suspect that's a bug of some description.  Not that I really care one way or the other, it's merely cosmetic, but I agree it's strange that there's no way to alter your D.O.B once it's been set.

I can understand why the Favorites are disappearing, what I can't understand is why there is no function within Curse.com to tell me that a project I have listed on my Favourites list has been removed.  Surely this is a fundamentally important thing to know about?  One of the addons I like enough to have bookmarked has been deleted.  That's pretty major, and certainly something I'd appreciate being told rather than having to notice that suddenly my large list of Favorites has become one item shorter.

I don't think you answered the other major question, which is "Why is there no obvious way within Curse.com to find out at a glance which addons have been updated since the last time I visited the site?"  This is surely the single most important thing for any site that hosts addons to provide.  You could get rid of damn near every other part of this site and I wouldn't much care so long as that single piece of information was right in front of me as soon as I logged in.  The fact that this information has been removed (because I know you used to provide it) is the most confusing thing about the redesign of your site, and the most frustrating thing I have to deal with when using it.

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Originally Posted by CommandoXXX

Thanks for the reply.  I can't think of any reason why I'd purposefully choose to list myself as 78 years old, no, so I suspect that's a bug of some description.  Not that I really care one way or the other, it's merely cosmetic, but I agree it's strange that there's no way to alter your D.O.B once it's been set.

I can understand why the Favorites are disappearing, what I can't understand is why there is no function within Curse.com to tell me that a project I have listed on my Favourites list has been removed.  Surely this is a fundamentally important thing to know about?  One of the addons I like enough to have bookmarked has been deleted.  That's pretty major, and certainly something I'd appreciate being told rather than having to notice that suddenly my large list of Favorites has become one item shorter.

I don't think you answered the other major question, which is "Why is there no obvious way within Curse.com to find out at a glance which addons have been updated since the last time I visited the site?"  This is surely the single most important thing for any site that hosts addons to provide.  You could get rid of damn near every other part of this site and I wouldn't much care so long as that single piece of information was right in front of me as soon as I logged in.  The fact that this information has been removed (because I know you used to provide it) is the most confusing thing about the redesign of your site, and the most frustrating thing I have to deal with when using it.

I'll add the Favorites updating you with the fact a project was deleted to our feedback list.  The "Updated since you last visited" sounds tricky (I'm no coder, though, so it could be simple), but I'll add that too.

Updated since last visit has been there sind 2005 when I joined the site. So please bring it back.

Trying to update addon with the help of my favorites is kinda useless when they are marked as 'last edit from today' and that's not a new upload but just a new comment. (No I do not want to use the updater).

greetings

a little question my curse dusnt upload my characters or so and i cant find the place for it anymore in my curse...

The Favorites page seems improved.  The "Last update" now shows the date of the last Release update rather than the last comment posted, which is good.

There's a couple of problems, though.  First of all, the list is still sorted by the date of the last comment and it's not possible to click column headings to sort by the last update instead.  Since the date of the last comment isn't shown, it looks like the list is in a random order.  It would make sense to either allow the list to be sorted by a particular column, sort the list automatically by last update or add a column that shows the date of the last comment.

Secondly, some addons are permanently in beta (eg Cartographer).  Since these addons have never had a "Release" they don't have a date when added to the Favorites list, which means that for those of us who install the Betas we still have no idea when the last update was.  Could a column be added which shows the date of the last update as well?  If combined with the above, this could result in three dates for each addon - date of last Release, date of last update (regardless of if it's Beta or Release) and date of last comment.  Ideally, we could order the list by whatever column we were most interested in.

It would also be very helpful if those lines that had a more recent date than our last login were highlighted.  For example, if we order the list by last update it would highlight all those that have had a Beta or Release since our last login.  The site knows the date of our last login as it's shown on the sign-in information page.

I have to agree with everything said here.  The sorting of the faves list, the lack of notifications of what's new, and the lack of notifications of removals really makes some of the potentially most useful functionality of Curse very hard to use.

The odd thing, like Beutju mentioned, is that all of this (except the removal notifications) used to be there until recently.  The favorites page is now the most useless it has ever been in Curse's history.

I'd like to see the ability to sort to page - by the column we pick - come back.

I'd like to see "updated" notifications come back.  These used to be "since you last visited that addon page" rather than "since your last login" though.  The former makes much more sense to me.

I'd like to see the favorites email and/or RSS notification come back.  Yes, that functionality generates a lot of traffic, but that's because it's useful, and because that's the nature of a file repository used by thousands of people.

Notification for deleted projects would be something new, but it would be extremely useful.  I definitely agree with the OP on this.  The thing is, I recently logged in to Curse again after a few months off, and I *know* there were addons missing from my faves list that ARE still active projects on Curse.  So, personally, I still think there's something more going on here than just old projects getting deleted.

I know I'm not going to change any developer minds on this, but I found Curse much easier to navigate and use - both as a user and a mod author - before the Curse.com/CurseForge.com split.  Just before the split it was a joy to use, but now... mostly a headache.  Performance is better than ever, but figuring out where and how to do anything - and on which of the two sites to do it - is a chore.

Finally, on the "beta" issue, I'm going to comment on this since I just got "bit" by it myself.  In my opinion there is no reason for a mod author to *ever* mark an addon as alpha or beta, simply because our users will *never* be notified of its existence.  That's pretty counter-productive.  The only place alpha/beta mods show up is in the file list on the project page, meaning our users will have to actively seek them out without any prior clue that they're going to find anything new.  That's not good.  The way it recently struck me is that my latest "release" version was for WoW 2.4.  My conversion to 3.0 isn't complete, but I wanted to give my users at least partial functionality now, so I marked my update as "beta".  Well, of course Curse still listed my old 2.4 version as "current", even though it is completely useless now.  I removed that "beta" tag real quick, so that my users would get SOME indication it was there.

Curse used to mark an addon as updated even if a beta release was posted, which made sense.  Users might choose not to download the beta, but at least their favorites pages told them there was something new.

I know this sounds really negative, but that's only because I want Curse to succeed, and become again what it used to be.  A few months ago it was great.  Now... it does a whole lot less.