"Downloads" section being phased out...

Started by Shadowwolf, May 21, 2012, 10:10:48 AM

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Shadowwolf

Just a heads up folks, we will be turning off the "Downloads" section of the website.

With all the add-on sites out there for WoW and the vast improvements in reliability with them since the time we started this site, there is less and less of a need for us to host the add-ons you use regularly.

The purpose originally was to provide a source for downloads when those sites would frequently crash due to the download load from WoW patches and make updating add-ons nearly impossible to do.

For the past 6 months we have monitored the download area usage and it's been very very low. Comparing that with the amount of upkeep it requires to maintain those add-ons to current, the space used on the server for them, etc, its become a wasted effort and so its time to cease that section as its purpose is done.

We will still host Twilight created files on the site in different places and should the need arise down the road to provide a "Downloads" section again, we will definitely fire it up once again. There is also the idea of temporarily re-activating it for whenever patches are released for the ease of finding the critical add-ons.

Sorry for any inconvenience this creates for some of you, but in an effort to revamp the site and find out what works, what doesn't, etc, this is one of those time consuming things which should go to make room for better features.

You can find WoW add-on updates at the following sites:

http://www.wowace.com/addons/
http://wow.curseforge.com/addons/
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/latest.php
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