The longer you’ve had the CurseForge App, the slower it gets.
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Not true at all.
Was a little slow today, but not anything terrible.
WowUp still works and supports multiple providers (Wago, WoWInterface, GitHub, etc.) except for Curse. It’s a matter of finding the addons you use on providers other than Curse.
Most of the 70-ish addons that I use are available on Wago, WoWInterface, or GitHub. There are only a few left that I download manually from Curse. WowUp works very well.
Wago pays addon authors to host on their site, so some addon authors release on Wago in addition to Curse.
Someone is keeping a list of WoW addons that are on GitHub in a format that WowUp can read: https://github.com/layday/github-wow-addon-catalogue/blob/main/addons.csv
Is there some trick to re-finding addons elsewhere?
It seems like the only thing it reliably updates is raiderio. DBM, WA, etc. I either have to do manually, or occasionally they get an update like weeks later it seems.
You have to reinstall addons when switching providers for WowUp to detect the new source. There were a lot of broken addon links when I first disabled Curse. I searched the WowUp client first, then WoWInterface, then GitHub to find whatever addons I could.
I think Wago, TukUI, and WowUpHub are available to search from within the WowUp client.
I edited my post after you replied to add a list on GitHub listing which WoW addons work with WowUp. Here it is: https://github.com/layday/github-wow-addon-catalogue/blob/main/addons.csv
WoWInterface doesn’t have a search API for addon clients to use, so it’s a matter of doing a search on the website and using the Install via URL button on WowUp. Its the same for GitHub.
I did switch from Bagnon to ArkInventory and from Postal to the TSM mail interface to minimize how many addons I have to update manually from Curse.
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I will simply continue to use the CurseForge and not have to deal with any of those issues. 
Sadly Wowup couldn’t keep up, between the issues of there being tons of addons it doesn’t have or gets stuck on for some reason and can’t detect updates and makes you have to reconfigure stuff. It’s just not worth the amount of hassle especially since the addition of Wrath Classic, always super behind between differentiating versions.
Since now there’s Curseforge WITHOUT overwolf required to launch, and while it’s in Alpha/Beta there’s no ‘data collection’ enabled which were a lot of my complaints. When they change the data stuff I’ll end up back to manual updates.
Take their word for it, or did you sandbox it?
Yeah I’m going to be trying really hard to trim my list of addons down as much as possible in Dragonflight, hopefully to a number small enough that 1) updates aren’t needed frequently (once every several months at most) and 2) when updates are needed, it’s not a huge pain in the rear to do it manually.
Sadly this is just how things go for the sorts of crapware that has come to dominate game “companion”/management type apps. The apps themselves are lowest bidder garbage which is then exacerbated by the 12 tons of ads, tracking, etc pumped into them for monetization. They’ll never be anywhere near as high quality as open source alternatives created by industry professionals in their spare time out of love (like Ajour and WoWUp) rather than profitseeking.
The people who want the app to be functional?
In a proverbial marketplace of freeware, if your freeware is slow or clunky to use compared to others, people are going to flock to whatever is more functional. Or pay for a better version in some extreme cases.
Yeah, how dare people want an App to work without it being a hassle… What a terrible horrible place we live in where we expect basic functionality in programing… 
/s
How the heck you expect them to support an App if the App doesn’t work for them or doesn’t work without being a hassle or slow to use? And don’t tell me “it’s just 10 seconds”, it all adds up whenever started, and if doesn’t even scan for the addons or get stuck. That’s a problem.
Feedback like this helps make the app better for everybody. improving compatibility for everybody.
That’s literally no excuse.
Luckily, Bari knows a secret way to easily manually install addons. 
My secret way in 7 easy steps.
Step 1, Download 7zip/winrar.
Step 2, select via mouse or hit Ctrl + A on your addons (that are in zip/rar files) in the folder where you’ve downloaded.
Step 3, Ctrl + C Or Ctrl + X
Step 4, Ctrl + V into the addon’s folder.
Step 5, Select all the winrars, right click and hit extract all.
Step 6, ???
Step 7, Profit.
I’ll have to recheck it to see if it supports my addons. It stopped supporting some of them before. When the big crackdown happened. Curseforge is just way too slow.
the devs of that app have absolutely no excuse for the poor performance, nothing it does requires any real resources.
its basically a DB with a UI, reading and writing very small (relatively) text files.
app behaves like it was coded by a guy on fiverr, hosted on an HDD rack and networked on dialup.
its just bad code, plain and simple.
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Sure that part’s easy… I’m just not going to manually check for updates and then download them for 70+ AddOns.
Bookmark the pages into a folder on your browser. 
Or… I can just open the app, hit Update All, and close it. Woo done.
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Exactly what I do.
I like the CurseForge App so no thanks. 
Yes new curseforge app is slow and buggy. But it’s in alpha. 
What can ya do?
