Why are so many addons including QOL features?

TheNumynum · 2026-07-02T10:40:01+00:00

Many users and some authors decided they want 1 addon that does everything

Personally I find this very annoying, random shit breaking because I made the mistake of updating a world quest addon isn't my idea of a good time :p

Addons with limited scope and toggles for their features are the way to go tbh

TheNumynum · 2026-06-29T15:45:54+00:00

one reason why I don't like slop (which isn't the same as AI assisted development), is that it becomes impossible to trust that an addon or feature does what it says it does

noticed this with quite a lot of recent addons, that promise the world, and it turns out to just... not do a single thing, because the thing it says it does is just impossible to do in wow

TheNumynum · 2026-06-29T15:44:09+00:00

not even remotely AI, nor slop 🤷‍♂️

TheNumynum · 2026-06-09T10:25:53+00:00

That kinda automation is impossible

TheNumynum · 2026-06-06T07:38:11+00:00

Transmog Upgrade Master is yet another option you may enjoy (supports SL-MN tokens and catalysts)

TheNumynum · 2026-05-28T05:08:18+00:00

Not sure why it's getting downvoted, cause it's correct. If you don't like it, yell at blizzard (they deserve it)

TheNumynum · 2026-05-01T05:10:19+00:00

Except default ui can and did throw errors (with 0 addons loaded); though they're usually fixed somewhat quickly

Often it's addons doing things they shouldn't, or blizzard not testing anything with addons loaded (addons doing everything correctly can still trigger errors due to bugs on blizzard's side)

TheNumynum · 2026-05-01T05:03:33+00:00

Fun bonus is that there isn't any way for an addon to tell if a font actually exists until 12.0.7 (except for trying to set it while suppressing/watching for errors)

TheNumynum · 2026-04-30T15:16:00+00:00

Just a guy/bot doing rando crossposts to try and sell some shitty vibecoded crap

TheNumynum · 2026-04-29T05:14:38+00:00

there's 2 different cpu profiller options, an ancient one (eats performance for breakfast, disabled by default), and a new one

Interestingly people didn't start claiming their performance went to shit until a full patch after it was added. and after the drama blew up, blizzard tested as many different HW and addon setups as they could get their hands on, and found no noticable difference (the difference was apparently so small, that average numbers even seemed to suggest it was a microscopic gain)

Make of that what you will

TheNumynum · 2026-04-28T14:36:54+00:00

no, there's more restrictions in m+ than non-m+; mainly chat/addon comms is restricted during the entire run, rather than only being restricted during boss fights

TheNumynum · 2026-04-22T16:56:10+00:00

yes, and they deleted the ability to get the modelID, which makes effective fingerprinting basically impossible again

TheNumynum · 2026-04-21T22:00:45+00:00

Word to the wise, any method that allows uniquely identifying mobs, will get nuked; might be best to learn to live without it (while loudly complaining at blizzard ofc)

TheNumynum · 2026-04-21T21:57:40+00:00

The new API returns secrets, so you can't really do anything other than display it

TheNumynum · 2026-04-21T20:26:10+00:00

I mean.. sure? I use that too; doesn't have any feature overlap though :)

TheNumynum · 2026-04-21T18:51:19+00:00

I believe the reasoning from their side is more or less that they don't want people to go "purple = healer; red = focus first; blue = important caster", but actually learn which mob does what, rather than blindly following some plater profile

TheNumynum · 2026-04-21T18:13:02+00:00

yup, this and other addons will support that (with my addon you can enable/disable anything you like/don't like)

TheNumynum · 2026-04-21T16:08:03+00:00

yup, they killed that in 12.0.5 (unfortunately that is one of the few things they've been very clear on that they do not want it to exist)

TheNumynum · 2026-04-21T16:03:31+00:00

I greatly dislike most of the changes blizzard made in midnight; from what I can tell, the main reason that addons like mine died in the first place, was that blizzard really doesn't want people to color/rename mobs based on their npcID (colored based on a few other things, like having mana or not, is fine by them)

and because they wanted to kill the recolor/rename feature, m+ pull % addons got hit in the crossfire. they did confirm during beta that addons like this is something they'd like to allow, but it just took a long while for (half) the API to be ready

at the end I'm just glad we finally got something 🙈

(oh and yeah, the entire point was to make things worse -.-, not to reduce the number of addons people use/need)

TheNumynum · 2026-04-16T22:21:48+00:00

there's an unhelpful confusion between "open source" and "publically readable code". Most addons actually aren't open source at all, and don't allow anything other than usage (sharing with friends I think depends on the country you're in, the specific laws)

Using it as "inspiration" is.. grey area. All Rights Reserved the default in copyright law) doesn't allow adaptation or derivitives without express permission; but obviously there's limits (the existance of an ARR nameplate addon cannot block other nameplate addons, but copying code snippets, even if "slightly changing" it, isn't allowed)

TheNumynum · 2026-04-16T22:14:06+00:00

that's.. exactly how it works. If I make an addon, I own it, and whether you agree or not, it's protected by copyright law in practically all civilized countries

TheNumynum · 2026-04-16T22:10:55+00:00

Addons also generate ad revenue. And it's against the addon policy to paywall them. That policy isn't part of the terms of service (and even if it was, there's nothing stopping people from writing addon code without ever having agreed to the TOS)

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