Still on my list… just haven’t gotten to it yet.
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Any update on this? It would be great to be able to download somewhere other than Curse using an addon manager. Or has it been added elsewhere and I’ve just missed it? 
Pretty please?
I keep forgetting to update.
With the greatest respect to everyone concerned… if you come to this site to use its’ features, it makes sense that you’re able to check for add-on update while you are here.
You being unwilling to entertain that option is an active one, as is expecting the code authors to “do things YOUR way”.
If you cannot afford to accept that code authors have a value to their time in the same way I feel some here would advocate THEY have, then an impasse has been reached & difficult decisions need to be made.
Thank you for reading…
I actually looked into this the other day but then got buried by 11.0.5 and some other work.
It seems that WowUp can pull from curseforge these days?
So really this would be mainly for users of wago.io, or maybe wowinterface? I’m not sure how comprehensive wowinterface’s addon library is compared to curseforge or wago.
I’ll try to set aside a couple days in the near future to get it on github. I have actually never used github (I know, a bit weird, but that’s just how things went with the companies I ended up at) so it will take me a bit to learn how to automate it, then figure out how to get the addon manager sites to pull from it automatically.
At one point we had curseforge set up to automatically update from our repository, but that broke after curseforge changed hands multiple times. So it would probably be worth setting that up from a github repository again, and then see if these other sites can pull from that same repository.
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I’m not “expecting” anything 
I was just adding my request to others on these forums and, as the response had been cautiously positive, I wished to re-engage to see if there was any progress. I’d be fine if the progress was a simple “no” because then I’d just stop asking and, as you said, simply check occasionally when I was using the site.
However, from the point of view of someone who avoids using Curse if at all possible - which I realise seems weird to a lot of people but, equally, there are others who are of the same opinion as myself - I’d still ideally like to be able to enjoy the same benefits as those who use the Curseforge-enabled addon managers to keep my addons up to date. Virtually every single one of my addons that were Curse-only, I no longer use. This one, which I pay a subscription for, I do, and download manually direct from this site.
I use wowup … the version without Curse (as that still includes code from Curse they do not allow anyone else, including those at WowUp to view), which allows me to update my addons from Wago.io, Wowinterface, wowuphub, github and Tukui.
I have simply expressed my view that, ideally, from my point of view, it would be nice to be able to automatically have this addon updated in the way that all my others are. Yes - I can (and do) update from here … but it’s several extra steps to check each time - and I don’t know if there IS an update until I get to that page then compare to see if it’s the same version as the one I already have. And I’m getting on a bit, and tend to forget to do it on a regular basis.
Thank you for reading.
Thank you for that, that’s great.
From what I’ve seen from other addon authors, it is possible to have your addon on Github and then use that as a “source” for both Curseforge and other addon sites. From what I remember, there is some sort of automated “packager” or something that will do it for you, but honestly what you guys do is completely over my head so this is just from what I’ve gleaned from the wowup discord.
If needed, I can ask the question there and get the information needed, or there’s an addon authors FAQ on their discord here: WowUp
It’s my understanding that WowUp has two versions: one that uses wago as its source, and another that uses curse as its source (at least those are the 2 downloads presented on their site). So in theory… as long as we get the addon on wago, those who want to use wowup with wago instead of curse should be good to go.
edit: it seems like maybe the wago integration requires enabling some promotion pane (so that wago authors can get compensated from seeing ads or something). I haven’t used any of these addon managers so can’t say for sure. So if we did support WowUp I guess I would try to see if WowUp can pull directly from a repository too.
(I’m old school and update all of my addons manually… I generally dislike clients that run advertisements, and advertisements in general. It is hard to guarantee safety to your users when you are running advertisements, which is why we removed them from our site a long time ago. At least web browsers have a lot of safeties built in… but who knows what you are getting with a 3rd party app. I think several of these addon managers have a premium upgrade that removes ads – if I updated my addons more often I’d probably do that.)
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Yes that’s correct. Both versions of Wowup has ads afaik (as it’s part of both Curse and Wago’s setup that they use ads to aid income to addon developers who post their addons on their sites? I’m not really sure how it works.
I don’t know the specifics in relation to the adverts (you’d have to speak to those who know more about that sort of thing), however, I do know that, if you use the version of WowUp with Wago on, you can simply disable the option to use Wago (so it only uses the other sites like wowuphub, wowinterface, github, etc) and that removes the advert completely. I’m fairly sure I’ve seen something as well where the advert is somehow “sandboxed” in the addon, so it should be secure.
Me too. One of the main reasons I stopped using the Curse addon manager back some time ago when it became massively bloated for what I wanted it for, and then Overwolf got involved which was even more of a reason to not use it. I’d rather not risk it
And the reason I didn’t switch over to using the wowup one with Curse was because Curse insisted in putting in their own code but refused to let wowup check it. Which seemed a bit suspect.
But anyway, I digress Wowup does allow addons to be pulled, and kept updated, direct from github, so if you put your addon on there and get it to automatically update your Curse one, then there wouldn’t really be a need to update elsewhere as well, unless you wanted to. It just needs to be stored in the correct format in github - wowup use their own github as an example of this: Releases · WowUp/WowUp.Addon · GitHub
If you did want to host it on a secondary site that paid a certain amount to the author, then Wago would probably be the way to go, in addition to Curse. But that’s even further outside of my wheelhouse
So for now I have added our addon (both retail and classic versions) to wago addons.
I think that should cover most people these days… it seems that most people are pulling from either curseforge or wago to get their addons, either directly or through something else like wowup.
It turns out that it is relatively easy to automate updating addons on both curseforge and wago – they both have an API for uploading new versions. It was a lot easier for me to integrate that into our current build process than mess around with a new repository for the addon.
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That is awesome … thank you so much xxx
I’ve let them know in the wowup discord as well, about it being on Wago.