Originally Posted by Glaurong
I suspect I'll end up going back to the old way I did things, finding/testing/downloading/hosting mods for them.
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One of the displeasing changes in my mind is that with the 'author rewards' program that Curse will be providing, addon authors that embrace the wowace->curse transition will want to be rewarded.. which is to say, they will want to have as many downloads of their addons happen directly from Curse.com so they benefit.
To that end, I expect that most these authors will request that their addons are never re-hosted anywhere else, period. It seems unlikely that there will be any serious repercussions for someone in your (or my) situation, where we might want to provide a more private download source for the addons we recommend, but I don't feel very happy about the idea of going against the authors wishes, or being tied to curse as the only source for addons, given possible uptime issues, etc etc.
Don't get me wrong - I see no problem with authors getting some kind of compensation/encouragement for their hard work, but if it happens at the expense of availability and usability, it will drive some percentage of the userbase away entirely.
Edit: Poor spelling.