Today was patch day for World of Warcraft. Now most people complain about patch day because it means extra downtime (and Blizzard, 3 weeks of extended downtime in a row? Give me a break). I dread patch day because it means several days of troubleshooting the addins that I have come to depend on. Now, this process became much easier once I realized that MazzleUI was dead and switched to an a la cart plan, but still patch days are tough.
I wonder what the world would be like if Microsoft had the same attitude towards breaking
changes in their APIs. Sure, there would be a lot of pissed off people, but
couldn’t they move much quicker if they didn’t have to worry quite so much about breaking
applications?