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迟来的消息:files.wowace.com即将关闭.
[quote]Files and WowAceUpdater
files.wowace.com and WAU and their popularity has come as a surprise to us all. As it currently stands files.wowace.com pushes out an incredible amount of addon updates. In an average month we're talking about more than thirty terabytes of data! In a busy month clearing sixty is no problem, and I don't even want to talk about what happens on major patch days. While this has indeed been very amazing, it has been a mixed blessing. The ads on the files homepage and inside of WAU have been an attempt to offset the costs. They have failed.
Unfortunately, these cold realities have forced me to make some hard decisions in relation to these features. files.wowace.com will be discontinued, in its place we'll be using the same syndication framework as CurseForge.
In addition, WAU will, for the time being, be discontinued as well as it won't be receiving any new content. In the immediate, however, WowAce's content will be available via the new Curse Client that is in development. The new client will be a great departure from the current one, and I'm glad to say I'm in a position to influence its future development, and I will continue to use this influence to push for the features that you, the community, want to see.
As far as the timing of what I've outlined here, it's not going to be immediate. I'm looking at rolling out the new site towards the middle of August. I'll, of course, be announcing the exact date once we get a little bit closer to the big day.
I know that this will be taken differently by all of you, and I'm sure that there are many questions. This is a major change, but I for one am excited. Because of the common software used on both WowAce and CurseForge I will be in a position to develop features and fix issues on WowAce fulltime. This will be the first time that I'll have been able to commit that level of effort towards the site.
In the meantime, myself, and some of the others leaders here will be answering some questions, however, we're going to host a few irc chats on monday to answer more questions. The first will be at 12pm CST (7pm CEST), the second will be at 7pm CST (2am CEST), these times are meant to allow anyone who's interested attend. The chats will be held in a temporary chat room, #wowace-upgrade, on freenode, and logs will be posted in the forums. During this chat we'll be answering questions about the software rollout. In addition, we'll also be discussing or answering questions regarding some future plans including a joint AuthorRewards program.[/quote]
作为主要插件提供站,files.wowace.com每天都面对着大量的数据更新,而投放广告带来收益显得杯水车薪.
wow.curseforge.com将会替代他.
我引用下月色的.
[quote][b]Post by 月色狼影 (2008-07-28 17:43):[/b]
仔细阅读下帖子
wowace 将于curse froge合作, 对作者来说 将来的环境将变得更好一些, 至少现在svn提交很多都是翻译者在搞, 弄得作者愤怒不止. 大家也不需要进入curse forge去下载插件, 作者都会将新版本插件发布到curse上或者wowinterface上. 而curse forge只是为开发者而准备的
同时curse会有一个与WAU一样功能的更新, 但是这里有的区别, 如果你想一下子更新全部插件的话 那么你必须付钱. 对你没看错 你必须付钱. 而这些钱的走向都是到插件开发作者手中, 比如换月卡等经费中.
如果你不想付费, 那只能用更新器一个一个检测 是否要更新. 这样对服务器可以减少不必要的流量.
总之, wowace的变化对用户群会减少很多, 但对作者的开发环境会更好一些. 这个变更是否能成功仍需等待着...
kealten, ckknight now work in curse! [/quote]
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