-Bruski of Ars Brute Squad, Chromaggus

I’ve only recently found the UI community in the past month or two. Is there a centralish forum? Or blog list? Will nostockui ever consider adding forums?
I would like to know where is a good place to ask questions about addons (not specific ones like how to use tbag, but if i had a general question about what kind of bar mod i should use) and where I could post my UI and get feedback.

Oh. And I love the comments on this thread. It reminds me oddly of the huge content theft arguements I read on the forumns about Secondlife back in the day.

I think by and large that is my biggest issue with WM. The idea that they’re in someway kind of almost ‘stealing’ authors hardwork. WM expecting the authors to pay the large bandwidth costs their add on generated, was horrid. It’s like a theif coming into your home to steal your money (revenue recieved from advertisements etc) and then sending you his medical bills when he falls and breaks his leg on the way out.

Users do begin to feel like they have certian ‘rights’ and expect some kind of ‘support’ for the ad ons they use. But there are limits, or at least I believe there should be some boundries there to protect authors. At a certian point providing endless support can become quite a burden for an author, and can unfortunately drive them to simply stop creating, or worse stop releasing content if those limits boundries either a) dont exhist or b) aren’t respected.

And I think all Tek was suggesting was that there be a line there. A place where both user and authors needs can be supported, and by which communication can pass back and forth. By WM removing the chance for the two to meet, charging the authors the expense, and removing the authors abilities to have a say in how or where their content is distrbuted – I think WM more than crossed the line.

I’m not sure what WM has done to correct or improve things. I’ve never felt the need to use such add ons in the first place as a few well placed bookmarks for me has always been more than enough. But I think at this point given how badly they messed up and how deeply effected people were I really do think it is on them to go above and beyond to reach out to the people they’ve hurt or outraged if they want to be given legitimacy in the community again. It’s not on the authors to roll out the welcome mat and say hey ya’ll lets all get together and have cones and tea. It’s on WM to provide the peace offering. To go to the authors.

By and large I think users should be MORE offended at what WM did. I wish they had more respect and understanding that they put all of us users at risk — not just the authors. They had the ability to stop content providers of the ad ons from releasing their works for us by making it possible for the authors to simply not be able to afford the monetairy expense to host the add ons for our use.

I also really like Tek’s AddOns because of the no-config style these AddOns have. Install, play, and you forget you have the AddOn running as the functionality is implemented very smoothly. Some of Tek’s AddOns require initial config however that is done really fast.

I also want to congratulate Tekkub that his or her AddOn Teknicolor will be integrated into the UI in 3.2 and I hope that Teknicolor will be supplementing it with features it currently has.

And just a simple question, I am not sure if Tekkub is male or female, he or she talks about his boyfriend a couple of times.