For those of you who are still a little uncomfortable about Wowhead, here's a new alternative. By IncGamers, the people behind the venerable WorldofWar.net, WoWDigger aims to fulfill your databse needs and then some:WoWDigger is not only a World of Warcraft game database, but also a place where your character matters. Upload your character and see your recipes, quest log, bank, talents and more!. Choose what information you share with your friends, the WoW community or your guild!
IncGamers has always been staunchly anti-RMT (real money transfer), so you don't have to worry about that when using their sites; they promise that "There will be at no point gold selling adverts or any affilition to gold selling on WoWDigger." And with "choose what information you share..." in their description, they seem to be taking a bit of a jab at the Armory, with its privacy concerns. Furthermore, they are trying to keep the site banner-free:
As you may have noticed the site contains no banners. We intend to keep the site this way as best we can with the backing of the community. If you like the site and use it you can help the dev team by pressing the donate button on the right, this will go to cover server hosting costs. We know such a site like this is resource hungry but are going to do our best to keep the site ad free.
Overall it looks like a decent site; a little bare-bones in terms of content at the moment, of course, because it just started, but once it gets off the ground it might provide a nice alternative to the Affinity triad. Personally, I plan to still use Wowhead (due to design, speed, and content), but more options never hurt.
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6-25-2007 @ 6:50PM
Mask said...
Looks pretty nice!
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6-25-2007 @ 7:10PM
CVJ said...
Sites only get better the longer they are maintained and supported by the end user. If people keep moving around to different sites I really just see it taking as long as wowhead to develop.
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6-25-2007 @ 7:25PM
G said...
And lets hope IncGamers keeps maintaining it. Their WoW profession and class pages still haven't been updated for BC. The rest of the site is chock full of bad links, missing graphics and inconsistent design. That's exactly why I like Wowhead. Whatever else is going on over there, they know what they are doing and code well.
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6-25-2007 @ 7:38PM
Anon said...
Looks nice, but I can't see what they could do better than wowhead currently does. Wowhead all the way :)
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6-25-2007 @ 7:52PM
Matthew said...
I see it loads about as quickly as the average incgamers.com page, too...which is to say, not very quickly. Think I'll stick to wowhead and wowwiki. If I can't find something on one of those two, then it ain't to be found.
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6-25-2007 @ 8:02PM
Pastykins said...
I'm actually not having any problems with WoWDigger, its not running slow, and so far I haven't found any bad links, and everything seems updated for BC. I don't really see much of a point for using it over Wowhead though, because Wowhead is already a much more established site, in terms of userbase, and comments and such.
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6-25-2007 @ 8:14PM
K Whitt said...
Well, seeing as how it loads slowly, it either is under far too much strain for their connection, their hardware, or they need to hire a real DBA and a good platform programmer to optimize their databases and site.
However, I'll give it a shot and contribute to them, just as I have to THott, and then WoWhead, and a few other startup attempts that were made (I believe the makers of Auctioneer/Enchantrix made one but it hasn't gotten very far to my knowledge).
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6-25-2007 @ 8:28PM
Tumples said...
I'm not going to stop using Wowhead just because they have been bought out, it is a great site.
If the site changes, *then* I'll look around for a new site.
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6-25-2007 @ 9:12PM
G said...
My original post wasn't clear, sorry. The broken links and general abandonment (aside from news) isn't on WoWDigger, but on worldofwar.net. Is that what WoWDigger will become in a year? Who knows.
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6-26-2007 @ 12:06AM
ILYAS said...
ui.worldofwar.net has a bad history of having keyloggers
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6-26-2007 @ 1:08AM
Tony said...
I'm not a pro WoW player or anything, so maybe another site does this and I'm not aware of it, but I honestly really like the character upload aspects. People can easily see what I can make, my stats, what quests I'm on and I can easily find more information about them.
I thought it was kind of cool.
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6-26-2007 @ 3:40AM
CB said...
Can anyone else get to Wowhead.com at the moment? We (australia) seem to have lost connection to it.
I've tried from two different ISPs
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6-26-2007 @ 3:57AM
yotix said...
Just to point out: WoW-Insider is chock-full of TOS-violating Gold Seller ads.
So please stop pointing fingers at other people who, just like YOU, make money by advertising for criminal cheaters.
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6-26-2007 @ 4:49AM
FaaR said...
#13:
Welcome to like...two years ago? It's well-known since a very long time that goldsell ads appear on this site.
WoW Insider uses Google ads, which means >Google< serves the ads, based on keywords found on the site. If a post mentions the word "gold", then an ad that is keyworded as "WoW" and "gold" is very likely to be served.
You may see ads about pet food/care/advice etc when posts about hunter pets or non-combat mini pets are discussed too. It's just an amusing/unfortunate side-effect of the keyword system.
There's not much that can be done about this; WoW Insider needs ad income to survive because YOU'RE NOT PAYING FOR IT. Besides, Google never agreed to the WoW TOS, and it doesn't actually apply to 3rd party websites in the first place either so even bringing that up is just plain irrelevant...
Just because Google unfortunately serves gold ads to the site doesn't mean the editors can't be against goldselling. They don't have full control over the ads being shown; Google does.
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6-26-2007 @ 7:18AM
p3ngu11 said...
The site won't contain banners until they can't afford to keep up with the costs of running a website. Wowhead was ad free for quite some time itself.
Honestly, I think they are just making the website so they can sell it off later...
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6-26-2007 @ 8:42AM
Mad Cow said...
I like wowhead, but I like that wowdigger combined wowhead+rpgoutfitter in one, that alone is worth the slow load time.
I've yet to play with the features of wowdigger, but I'm definitely going to give it a whirl tonight.
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6-26-2007 @ 9:16AM
Sorrows said...
Is the site down? I went to www.wowdigger.com and even clicked on the link and no joy.
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6-26-2007 @ 10:05AM
Ekimus said...
They could have been a bit more original when designing the site. Practically the same grid/layout as WoWHead. Weak sauce WoWDigger, weak sauce...
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6-26-2007 @ 10:08AM
Lexanya said...
@12 Nope. Since last night I haven't been able to get wowhead to load. At least today I can get the main page up, after that it stalls then I get the page cannot load or whatever. :(
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6-26-2007 @ 11:06AM
Erica Olson said...
Tried it, not impressed. The "NEW Quests" aren't new at all. Little to no information. Not much help in faction grinding info. Granted, it's a new site and a work-in-progress, but I'll not be visiting there as I'm perfectly happy with what I already use and speed is of the essence at times.
Good luck to them.
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