Why do you not provide active data on realm populations

[Holymary-fairbanks]

@Tln-herod

That’s basically all that uses it.

From some CensusPlusClassic dev issue comments for the source code:

“it seems Blizzard disabled the sendWho() API call in a hotfix yesterday. Addons can no longer use this function. This breaks all Census addons. There’s speculation that this was done to limit LFG addons, Census is just collateral damage. Damn shame. I’m not aware of a workaround atm.”

reference: https://github.com/christophrus/CensusPlusClassic/issues/17

@Bornakk

we believe the nature of ClassicLFG is incompatible with our social design for Classic. Thus, in an upcoming patch (in the weeks following launch), we will be adding restrictions to the Classic add-on API that will significantly limit this add-on and others like it.

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That doesn’t clearly show a direct connection between breaking SendWho() and the ClassicLFG addon, and I could not find any mention of SendWho() in the ClassicLFG source, except for here: https://github.com/DomenikIrrgang/ClassicLFG/blob/10fad93d5c33d05edb577373cd5f674d0e3420ad/src/util/util.lua#L89

I’d be curious as to whether there is any compelling information that would point to reasons for disabling SendWho() as a public API call that are related specifically to preventing consensus or population data collection.