We're co-hosting the (mostly) annual WoW UI Community Dinner again! Please come and join us and our friends over at WoWInterface for a night of good fun, good food, and good friends.
We will be revisiting the PF Changes near the convention center Thursday, Nov 6, at 9pm local time. Space will be limited, so please RSVP soon. You can either leave a comment here, or send a PM using this link if you don't have an account over there.
Looking forward to seeing everyone for another great Blizzcon!
Attention all CurseForge authors, and other creative types!
Are you in Seattle for PAX Prime? Do you happen to be in the area for other reasons on Saturday August 30th? If so you are coordially invited to dinner and a show on us. We're going to start with dinner at the Triple Door and stay to watch Cards Against Humanity, the Nerdologues, and Improvised Star Trek for an improv show.
Dinner starts at 6:30PM, and the show is slanted to start at 8:00PM. You must be 17+ to attend, 21+ to imbibe alcohol. You're welcome to come hangout with us, the Feed The Beast Crew, and other authors, artists, youtubers, or who ever the cat may drag in...
Space is limited, so you'll have to RSVP by sending a PM using this link. We will confirm reservations as space is available.
Today World of Warcraft releases the Mist of Pandaria pre-expansion patch. This version contains a large portion of the world-wide changes that we'll be seeing with Mists. If you're looking for more details about the game changes this post over on MMO-Champion has a lot of info.
Update:
Jamash in #wowuidev extracted the UI and the TOC# is 50001
Good luck today as all the addons get updated.
It's that time of year again when we get together and have a great meal and hang out before Blizzcon kicks in full swing. This year we're looking at Thursday night around 9pm and will be within walking distance of the convention. For the last few years, we (Curse and WowInterface) have had the pleasure of picking up the tab for the evening, and we're glad to do so again this year.
If you'd like to attend please sign up over here.
On Friday, October 21st from 8 PM to 2 AM on the 2nd floor of the Hilton hotel next to the Anaheim Convention Center, Curse will be celebrating BlizzCon with fellow gamers and VIPs. The party will feature an open bar, swag, live DJ, giveaways courtesy of our amazing sponsors, Logitech and Intel, and attendees from all over the gaming industry.
There will be several VIP’s in attendance including Felicia Day and other actors from the cast of The Guild, several of your favorite WoW community members, Vloggers, VCasters, and pro-players.
If you're an author, going to be at Blizzcon, and would like to attend (and haven't already got an invite) send me a PM with your name and email address.
Looking forward to seeing everyone again!
It's that time of year again when we get together and have a great meal and hang out before Blizzcon kicks in full swing. This year we're looking at Thursday night around 9pm and will be within walking distance of the convention. For the last few years, we (Curse and WowInterface) have had the pleasure of picking up the tab for the evening, and we're glad to do so again this year.
If you'd like to attend please sign up over here.
On Friday, October 21st from 8 PM to 2 AM on the 2nd floor of the Hilton hotel next to the Anaheim Convention Center, Curse will be celebrating BlizzCon with fellow gamers and VIPs. The party will feature an open bar, swag, live DJ, giveaways courtesy of our amazing sponsors, Logitech and Intel, and attendees from all over the gaming industry.
There will be several VIP’s in attendance including Felicia Day and other actors from the cast of The Guild, several of your favorite WoW community members, Vloggers, VCasters, and pro-players.
If you're an author, going to be at Blizzcon, and would like to attend (and haven't already got an invite) send me a PM with your name and email address.
Looking forward to seeing everyone again!
We're going to be bringing the repositories down temporarily for a migration. I'd expect the downtime to be less than an hour and will start within the next 10.
Update: We started a few mins late, but we're doing the final catchup sync now. We'll be done shortly.
Update: We're waiting on the final sync to finish, then we'll be turning services back on. Sorry for the delay.
Update: We're complete and back online, please report any issues with any repositories.
Age of Empires is back and we've got beta keys! This time it's online and with your friends. You can fight friends, co-op, and even build persistent cities.
Closed Beta for Age of Empires Online has been going for a while now, and Gas Powered Games is now ready to open the flood gates exclusively through Curse. Curse had had a chance to check it out at CES 2011 earlier this year, so be sure to check out our coverage.
We're stoked to be able to give you guys this opportunity to check out the game. This is a guaranteed spot in the closed beta, so be sure to get your key as soon as you can.
Initially, the giveaway is going to be limited to Curse Premium members. We'll be opening it up once premium users have had a chance to get ahold of their beta keys.
Details
There's no NDA for this phase of the beta, so feel free to contribute to AOE Wiki if you find information in the game that it's lacking.
Finally, here is the trailer from GamesCon 2010 for you guys to check out.
To al of our US users, and for those who may celebrate it otherwise.
On behalf of the site, our moderators and corporate overlords I wish you all Happy Thanksgiving. Be safe as you travel and enjoy the merriment.
Hey Guys,
I know that I stopped updating a few days ago when things started slowing down, so I wanted to officially say that the transition is done and that all services are online in our new datacenter and running on the new hardware.
At this point there may be a few known issues here and there, and of course there's always more to do. But if you're experiencing anything please make a ticket, and we'll get to it as soon as we can. If you're having some more urgent issue please feel free to PM me directly.
Thanks for the understanding as we've been transitioning everything and stabilizing things. Enjoy the shiny new hardware!
Kaelten
Hey guys,
Tonight I'm beginning the migration of the sites to our shiny new servers. This will unfortunately require that services will be taken offline as needed.
I'll try to keep everyone notified as things progress.
Thanks for understanding, and sorry for the inconvenience.
Going to start posting updates below, if I forget all times given should be GMT-5 (except when Ackis posts).
Quote from Update Thursday 3:19PM GMT-5:Know it's been a while since the last update. I wanted to let people know that we're doing good on stabilization front.
The Packager is up and running, and the approval queue is fixed. I'm keeping an eye on the error logs so that we know where we're at as far as that, and I'm about to bring the next round of services back online.
Quote from Update Thursday 9:55AM GMT-6:There are still a few issues being worked out. File approvals can't be processed just yet, there's a few issues with the repo's as well. These are being worked on. If you do see any issues, please create a ticket (search first to see if an existing one is there) under the "Site Issues" link up top. We're getting everything fixed as fast as we can. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Quote from Update Thursday 3:55AM GMT-5:All existing repositories are up and functional, however creating new repositories and packaging are still having issues. I'll be getting back on these things first thing in the morning.
Quote from Update Thursday 3:05AM GMT-5:Hg is fully up and functioning. Please notify of any issues using it.
Quote from Update Thursday 2:05AM GMT-5:Git is fully up and functioning. Please notify of any issues using it.
Quote from Update Thursday 1:11AM GMT-5:Svn is fully up and functioning. Please notify of any issues using it.
Quote from Update Wed 11:30PM GMT-5:I know it's been a long time since my last update but rest assured I'm still working.
I'm glad to say that svn+ssh access is now back working, I'm starting work on svn: now.
NOTE: if you use any of the ssh auth methods you may run into issues because the servers key has changed. On Linux based systems this can be found at /.ssh/known_hosts. I'm not sure about how windows handles that.
Quote from Update Wed 8:46PM GMT-5:Got several issues worked out including one related to manually uploading files and the virus scanner. Sorry for those who got error messages.
Quote from Update Wed 6:27PM GMT-5:We're seeing some packet loss in the new datacenter, but we're working on hard on getting it resolved.
Quote from Update Wed 6:00PM GMT-5:If you're seeing this update you're on the new servers!
Repositories are still down, I'm working on a few things I'm noticing that are off and will be updating you guys shortly.
Quote from Update Wed 4:44PM GMT-5:Repository access is disabled and a final copy has been started. Sorry for the inconvenience guys.
I don't have a solid ETA yet, but I'll update here when I do. I'm going to be brining the site down for a transition over to the new servers shortly.
Quote from Update Wed 4:25PM GMT-5:I'm going to be disabling repository access shortly
Kaelten
I'm pleased to announce that this year we're again teaming up with Cairenn over at WowInterface to co-host the UI Community Dinner. It went great last year at Bubba Gump's and we're excited to have it there again.
Here's a copy of Cairenn's announcement over on WowInterface.
Quote from Cairenn on WowInterface:Restaurant reservations are all made and confirmed. Here are the details:
When: 9:00pm, Thursday, 21 October 2010
Where: Bubba Gump's (about 16 min walk from the convention center, see downloadable map at bottom)Appetizers
Bubba’s Far Out Spinach Dip - Spinach, roasted red peppers, artichokes, and monterey jack cheese make one of the tastiest dips you’ve ever had. Enjoy it with our homemade tortilla chips; and Mama’s Garlic Bread & Gump House SaladChoose your entrée…
Bubba’s Bucket of Boat Trash - Deep fried shrimp, steamed lobster claw, and fried fish. Served with French fries.
Shrimp New Orleans - Lots of tender shrimp sautéed in butter, garlic and spices, served with Jasmine rice.
Dixie Style Baby Back Ribs - A pound of Baby Back Ribs slow roasted with sweet and tangy BBQ sauce and served with coleslaw and French fries.
Accidental Fish or Chicken - Broiled fish or chicken over a bed of Jasmine rice topped with shrimp, a lemon butter Sauce and Roma tomatoes.
Salmon & Veggie Skillet - Grilled salmon and fresh vegetables with garlic herb butter, served over rice.Dessert
Chocolate Cookie Sundae - a warm, fresh baked chocolate chip cookie topped with vanilla ice cream, caramel, chocolate, peanuts and whipped cream.
Coffee, tea or soft drinks included. One specialty drink of your choice (alcoholic drinks available only with valid proof of age). Any other [specialty] drinks beyond that will be cash and carry.
The reservation is only for 42 people so please if you're serious about attending signup over in the thread on WowInterface.
As we all know Cataclysm has entered beta. For expansions past we've been able to offer our authors beta access. I'm glad to say that thanks to Blizzard we're able to do the same again this year.
To be considered eligible for this you must have a valid active addon on either http://WoW.CurseForge.com or http://www.WowAce.com. We will be activating a new item on the rewards store (it won't cost any points!) soon that you'll need to go in and order to request a key.
We will then be fulfilling orders as quickly as we can receive keys.
Just so everyone is aware, addons are currently disabled in the latest builds of the beta and will likely remain that way for some time as the default ui gets the kinks worked out. While this will limit the toying with the API it will still let everyone test out the default one, and have fun exploring the new content.
Have fun, happy questing and testing!
As we all know Cataclysm has entered beta. For expansions past we've been able to offer our authors beta access. I'm glad to say that thanks to Blizzard we're able to do the same again this year.
To be considered eligible for this you must have a valid active addon on either http://WoW.CurseForge.com or http://www.WowAce.com. We will be activating a new item on the rewards store (it won't cost any points!) soon that you'll need to go in and order to request a key.
We will then be fulfilling orders as quickly as we can receive keys.
Just so everyone is aware, addons are currently disabled in the latest builds of the beta and will likely remain that way for some time as the default ui gets the kinks worked out. While this will limit the toying with the API it will still let everyone test out the default UI, and have fun exploring the new content.
Have fun, happy questing and testing!
I've received word that after the next set of rolling restarts, which may be happening as early as tonight, inspection requests on other players will start to be throttled.
This is being done because some addons generate a large number of inspection requests, so beware as some addons may start to behave unexpectedly, flat out break, or otherwise act up. Overall I hope it not to be too bad, but you never know, so here's the heads up.
Addon authors may need to restructure their addon so that they may _never_ receive a response back from a request. We may be seeing several second long intervals between allowed requests, and as I said, some request will likely never be answered.
If I hear any more details I'll update the post.
This morning I restarted point generation, you may not notice much difference in the points you receive right now, however things will continue to be shifting around as time continues.
Also, point generation is at this point completely up to date. If you go back and count you'll see that there is a point batch for every day in the month even if they were ran on the wrong day. In future months we'll no longer have a big delay waiting on budgeting, and we can expect the points generated to shift day to day to accommodate changes.
Finally, I think everyone will appreciate the new display in the rewards point log, It's now per-day instead of per-project-per-day. You can click on the details link and see the breakdown per project.
As usual there is always a chance that something could be off with the new code, I'll be keeping an eye on it and respond to any issues as they arise.
Have a good week,
Kaelten
Happy Friday everyone.
We all love our Curse Author Reward Points, and there's some good news. The system is being reworked, upgraded and made fancier, however that means that points will be not be generated for a few days.
When the upgrades are complete, any missing point generations will be run.
There have also been a few erroneous point generations, and once the system does restart, there may be lower points for the first little bit to make up for those point generations.
Also, authors should note that the system will be more dynamic to accurately reflect addon popularity.
Sorry for any inconvenience that this causes, but rest assured that the system will be up and running again soon.
Now there's some more good news for everyone. There have been some changes to the back end of the site to speed things up. You may have noticed the site being more responsive. That's due to quite a few back end optimizations that have been worked on over the past week or so.
Another new feature that has been released to everyone is project based forums. These were in beta for quite some time, but have now been opened up to everyone. You should be able to access them via a link in the project management section, or something like http://wow.curseforge.com/addons/projectname/forum/edit/
Take care and have a great weekend.