Quentin Rademaker Dot Com

Regardless of how you feel about WowMatrix, many, many players use it to keep their UI up-to-date. Unfortunately for those people, Curse and WowInterface chose today to take concerted efforts to block the use of WowMatrix with the addons they host. You can read their reasoning here, straight out of Kaelten’s and Cairenn’s mouths.

From a running-a-business standpoint, it’s hard to argue that they aren’t justified, but it will nonetheless result in a lot of disappointment and frustration among players.

“Yeah yeah yeah, blah blah, get to the important question: What does this mean for me, your sites’ user?” For the majority of users it should be completely transparent, you should not notice any difference whatsoever, other than improved site responsiveness during patch days. We hope that we will be able to revert the changes made to our sites eventually, if WowMatrix ever stops violating authors’ copyright and ceases stealing our bandwidth and other resources.

If you were previously using WowMatrix to keep your addons updated, please use our official updaters (Curse, WoWInterface). You may also mark addons as favorites on both WoWInterface and Curse in order to be alerted when they are updated.

Kaelten
Administrator, Curse & WowAce

Cairenn
Administrator, WoWInterface

Those links can provide you with alternative updater tools that are specific to each site, and while they may not do things the same way as WowMatrix or be quite as convenient, they will get you by in the meantime. The Curse Client in particular has dramatically improved since their merger with WowAce, and I know that Shirik on WowInterface’s staff has something in the works for a fresh new WI client to replace the old one for windows and this version for Mac with some exciting new features. Whether this means WowMatrix is down for the count remains to be seen, but the team behind WowMatrix has a history of finding, ahem “creative detours” to bypass similar measures taken in the past.

The comments on this notice will remain open, but the staff here at NSUI will be monitoring them closely, and anything that isn’t deemed constructive will be deleted with extreme prejudice. Please keep discussions civil and suggestions helpful. Giving us other alternative ways to update your addons are great. Telling us “Yeah, down with WowMatrix!” or “Wow, Curse/WowInt sucks!” are not great. Having said that, how will you keep your addons updated now? Will anything change for you? Do you like to do it yourself? We want to hear what you think!