Went to the new curseforge with overwolf and their MacOS client is a .EXE file.
Anyone else have suggestions on where to download Add Ons and updates?
Thank you!
I’m using Ajour, which pulls addons from Curse, WoWInterface, and a couple of other sources but is much much more clean, lightweight, and focused.
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Plus one for Ajour; works great and is lightweight/simple.
Their link was fubar. Hover over it and make note of the link, copy that and paste it into your browser. It should point to the DMG instead of an EXE.
I’ll second Ajour - superb add-on client!
Another vote for Ajour – been really happy with it and it’s actively maintained.
I noticed this, too. I sent them a support message on Twitter to let them know. Thanks to everyone for the recommendations.
mac version still a little buggy, fails often with javascript errors. I’ve been testing it last couple days and trying to help them reproduce it so it can get ironed out though.
i just do it manually into the folder
screw the malware
I’ve been going back and forth between using Wowup’s Mac beta and Ajour to test each and both seem to work fine.
Wowup however can also update addons from WowInterface, TukUI, and GitHub which may be better when Curse suspends add-on updates during Shadowlands release week.
Edit:
I just opened Ajour and saw it can also update from other places if you include a direct url and the add-on is “published as a release asset”, but that seems less user-friendly / easy than Wowup to me.
Another +1 for Ajour.
I’d been using the Twitch client until I saw the message about its impending removal, at which point I tried WoWup — which was, at the time, in very early beta for macOS and was extremely buggy. I’m sure it’s better now, but I’d found Ajour in the interim and have no complaints with it. Also, it updates ElvUI (which Twitch didn’t do — I had to do those updates manually), so that’s nice.
I did download Overwolf’s new Curseforge app last night to give it a whirl. I’m aware of the controversy about the company, but I think 99% of that swirl is past actions biting them in the rear. I’ve read their entire privacy policy, and there’s nothing unusual or egregious in there now. That said, the app (which is in beta) didn’t find/recognize ANY of the addons that were already installed.
I’ll likely give the new Curseforge app another go when it’s out of beta — mostly because they actually give back to the addon developers. Overwolf claims they’ll be adding an ad-free, premium option soon ($3.99 per month, I believe it was), the bulk of which will go to addon creators. I’m very much on board with this. I’ve gotten a LOT of use out of addons, so an easy way to support the developers is great.
You might have an older version of Ajour. I just saw that there was an update (v0.5.1) and after updating, the Catalog page now has a dropdown for Curse, Tukui and Wowinterface (i.e. without having to install from a URL).
So that’s a good update for them.
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Wowhead misread the situation.
Addon updates aren’t being frozen until the 30th. Wowhead never spoke to anyone at either Curseforge , Twitch or Overwolf when they wrote their blog.
I tried both of those 3rd party updaters and both were bad and I promptly removed after realizing they had huge flaws… Maybe better now but these were issues I noticed.
WoWUp
- Only scans addons on game add. after that it uses assumption for everything. if wowup didn’t uninstall it, or update it, then as far as it’s concerned the addon is still there not updated. EVEN if you deleted it yourself, or updated it with anther program/yourself. This meant it was literally reinstalling addons i chose to delete or reupdating ones i had already updated. This was just bad/lazy code. As I said maybe it’s fixed now.
- When updating an addon that removed files, it wasn’t doing cleanup. For example I updated Some older DBM mods recently to combine a few mods and reduce folders a bit. IE I combined DBM-Argus into DBM-BrokenIsles . users who were on wowup were reporting that on login they were getting message that I had coded in that DBM-Argus wasn’t deleted and should be manually removed. The common theme was they were not using curseforge client (which DOES detect these kinds of delections and automatically handles it correctly).
Number 2 happened as recent as this week so less likely it’s fixed yet.
As for Ajour, when I ran that it was a hot mess. I couldn’t even get it to work at all to form an opinion, but that was also weeks ago.
As for overwolves curse client as it stands now. As long as you don’t update addons too fast (or hit update all) it seems to work great. If you hit update all or hit multiple update buttons too quickly it javascript errors out. I’m sure they’ll fix this soon enough. Outside of that, it manages addons perfectly, better than twitch client ever did. Properly detects modifications or even addons that may have been installed in wrong game version. Properly removes files that were depricated when updating addons, and most of all makes no assumptions. If you did update/remove something manually, it will detect this.
I got lucky I guess. I tried the Overwolf client and didn’t get the errors when clicking update all (it had all of DBM’s updates to parse too!). Seems the work you’re doing with them is helping.
Ah, so that’s what happened. I just saw that they released a new blog article saying updates will work till then.
Not having add-on chaos right at the beginning of an expansion is a relief.
Thanks! I’ll go update my version.
Another +1 for Ajour. Solid add on manager that seems to have pretty rapid development going on behind it.
I’m using Wowup, and I can state it runs great. Its a lightweight addon manager that I’m happy with, it does what I need without all the extra stuff like ads.
I can’t speak on what Omegal was saying as I’m not a programmer. I know the Wowup dev is constantly working on it and adding new features and maybe when he was testing it it didn’t have that feature in at the time.