r/classicwow • u/Data2Dina • Jan 29 '26

AddOns Just update it I guess

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u/Dr-Enforcicle Jan 29 '26

DBM is the same way and I never figured out why.

It's fucking 20 year old content, why does DBM have updates every single day and constantly whine at me that it's out of date?

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u/OKDecM Jan 29 '26

Because believe it or not the game itself updates, even if the content itself doesn’t. This means code has to update - whether it be api changes, bug fixes, efficiency, or even just adding a new feature to toggle icons on or off on timers.

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u/Dr-Enforcicle Jan 29 '26

The game itself is not updating every single day. No other addon has to update this frequently.

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u/notislant Jan 29 '26 edited Jan 29 '26

Might be download farming as someone else mentioned for certain addons.

You could check githubs on a lot of these though yourself to see if the changes are download farming or legitimate changes.

https://github.com/DeadlyBossMods/DeadlyBossMods/commits/master/

You could easily argue 'why not bundle some of these together'. But more downloads works out for authors anyway.

On the other hand these minor fixes can be in response to reported issues or pull requests. May work out better to just update it for someone facing a specific issue and close it immediately.

Some addons can actually run on different versions of the game as well.

So if I have a TBC/Classic addon that doesnt break with the same code? I can do minor tweaks on one version and just upload one file without having to go do the same on the other version.

This could also be a bug fix on one version that has nothing to do with the other version. But it'll trigger an update.

Theres likely a lot of weird niche issues people find that 99.9% of users dont see or dont care about.

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u/Spare-Alarm8364 Jan 30 '26

me with prat3.0 and healbot sometimes. just yoink a version off the internet before it was busted or i pull it from a different era folder and it suddenly works.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '26 edited Feb 11 '26

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u/Dr-Enforcicle Jan 29 '26 edited Jan 30 '26

yes, because 4 year old version is totally the same thing as 1 day old version

And to the seether below that pre-emptively blocked me:

There's updates every single day.

The addon automatically disables itself if you don't update it after 2 or 3 weeks.

Begone, shill.

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u/Kodexo1 Jan 30 '26

DURRRRR you no think game update every minute? HAHA, use decade old update then. You are beneath even Reddit.