It’s time to ditch Twitch and get WoWUP.IO. It downloads addons from all the major addon sources and much, much more quickly. This is the next big app for WoW addons. It handles all the versions like retail, beta, classic, ptr. With this Curseforge moving to Overwolf nonsense, I’ve decided to put my faith in WoWUP.IO. No, it’s not malware. The developer even has a patreon. 
Note: To get it to start when Windows10 boots up, I had to move the executeable to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Startup. I have other apps in there, too, so no biggie.
Yeah thanks I’d rather stick to official, moving to curse is only a road bump.
Lol, I investigated a bit more and it looks like CurseForge is getting it’s own app. I guess I was a bit premature. When the CurseForge app gets released WoWUP.IO will be dead in the water.
Oh good, it’s an open source project. Was worried that it might be another wowmatrix type of thing.
(For those who weren’t around then or otherwise weren’t aware, over a decade ago there was an addon updater called wowmatrix that did shady stuff like inject files into addon releases and host addon updates themselves against the will of developers)
My understanding that you will have to install Overwolf (I do not intend to) and the new Curse app will be an app inside of Overwolf.
I’ll keep using WoWUp if they don’t kill the API. I’ll install manually before using Overwolf.
Yes, and the author is very accessible on Discord.
I uninstalled Twitch. I’m currently using WoWUp, but I’m afraid Overwolf will see it as competition and kill it’s access to CurseForge. WoWUp accesses addons from 4 major addon websites. I’d love to see al the addon developers move their addons to WoWInterface or TukUI’s website.
Overwolf didn’t purchase CurseForge out of the goodness of their hearts. They want to profit from what are supposed to be free addons.
Really, these days there’s not much need for a central website. Addons could easily be distributed with a WoWUp-type program for the front end with addon updates hosted on Github/Gitlab/etc. Developers have been using similar systems to fetch/manage/update libraries for a decade+ now, so it’s an approach that’s tried and true.
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WowUp does this - you can enter the Github URL and update it from there. I have a few setup this way. There’s been some discussion about this - some people feel like many of the big authors won’t move or co-host their code on Github as they derive revenue from Twitch and will continue to do so from Overwolf.
Understandable, but as someone who used to pull in a bit of cash from addons on Curse myself, the payout isn’t great unless you’ve got at least a moderate hit of an addon. Rates may have changed, but in the early 2010s I think I might’ve gotten $200-$300 from about 100k downloads over the course of 3 years. Wouldn’t be hard to do better than that with Patreon or Github sponsorship or similar.
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