wowmods: addon metasite

pgl — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 08:37:22 GMT

Hello,

and good day to you. I am writing this to let you know about a site I made. It's actually been around for a while, but hasn't changed much from its original (very much lacking) state after I stopped playing WoW nearly a year ago. Now that started playing again, I've finally gotten round to updating the website with some bits that I hope other people might find useful.

It was originally written so I didn't have to check three places whenever I was trying to find an addon, or check for updates.

You can see it here:

http://fin.instinct.org/wowmods/

Here's a quick overview:

lists updates to addons hosted on

Curse

WoWInterface

*spit*

updates available for previous hour, day, or three days
allows filtering by site
allows advanced filtering using Perlish regular expressions

supports favourites lists

can be accessed via an RSS feed

searchable database

8809 addons across all the sites so far

can be added as a Google Gadget to an iGoogle homepage
supports

OpenSearch

should

includes detailed information for each addon
where able, shows: links to sites able to be associated with the addon + changelogs + descriptions + details + update history + version numbers
easy-to-use/remember URLs? (nobody else is going to care about this, are they, heh :)

Here's some links in addition to the main page, if anyone's interested in having a look:

http://fin.instinct.org/wowmods/rss

Google Reader

http://fin.instinct.org/wowmods/find

tried

logical

http://fin.instinct.org/wowmods/help/

a changelog

todo list

(Aside: just noticed ui.w are back to wowui.w - wtf? Another name change? Pff.)

It's not finished; there's lots more to do. But, now that there's finally favourites lists, I figured it might actually be useful for other people as well as me. :)

Any and all comments, criticisms, suggestions, and / or other similar communications, thoughts, opinions, and missives related, indirectly connected, or even nothing to do with the site are of course happily encouraged, welcome, desired, positively lusted over, and will find a soft warm home in my brain where they can relax with buttery toast and a nice cold alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverage of choice and the fine company amongst peers and friends.

cheers,

- Fin

User Interface & Addons

wowmods: addon metasite