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Quote from XrisCarter

500? For me it said it found 1001 mods? How can you be that far off?

I never use the curse site or the curseforge site because its is just plan silly that you have to look at mods for all the different versions without the option to pick what version you are looking for.

For example lets say I am looking for mods for 1.5.2 so I go to the curseforge site and right now there are 1001 mods but the top 10 mods there only 1 has a version that is for 1.5.2. Curse is a better setup then using a forums for mods but with out the option to filter by version number this its pointless still.You know it would only less then one hour to add a filter to the site and make it usefull.


You did not understand what he was saying but this pic will help. Where in this photo does it tell me what version it is for?

You are confusing Curse.com and CurseForge.com. Curse.com is where users are supposed to go to find released and beta mods. So, while CurseForge may have 1001 projects, half of those are in alpha stage, don't even have files yet, and/or are experimental, while Curse.com finally reached 500, roughly 506 now. If you read the article, we explained how Curse.com and CurseForge.com are different and we're trying to educate the public about those differences.

Curse.com = Download Released and Beta mods. Where USERS should download them.
CurseForge.com = Project hosting site for AUTHORS to upload mods.

As for filtering by the version the mod supports, it's tougher than you think. Most mods stay up-to-date with Forge, and mod authors are continuously updating from version to version. If there is a mod that you like, I suggesting taking the extra click or two to see the "Other downloads" tab on Curse.com. It'll list every version of that mod and if it's a popular mod it's bound to have the version you are looking for.

Would you have it sort it by the latest updated version? That's seems like a feasible sorting method, but if you want to sort them just by version compatibility, that's when it gets tougher due to most mods supporting many different versions from before.

Like I said earlier, most mods try to stay up-to-date with Forge, and it seems the majority of users want it this way too, and as a result, Forge has continually kept up-to-date with Minecraft.(except recently with 1.7, as it changed so much they are really behind)

Quote from XrisCarter

Thanks for the reply but can you blame people for confusing the two? It looks like even you confuse the two...
"CurseForge Hits 500 Mods!"

Adding a version filter is not a has hard as your thinking it would be man you can even do that type of thing using a simple greasemonkey script. Though after my doctors appointment I will look into just sorting but date...that might make the site useable at least lol.

Sorry about that! I wrote the article but the title I submitted said "Curse.com Reaches 500 Mods!". I didn't even notice that it was changed when Sacheverell posted it. XD
BTW, you can sort the mod database by date, there's a drop down menu for sorting and you can sort by "Recently Update" or "Newest" which are both by date. You can also sort them by "Monthly downloads" and "Total downloads".
I understand this isn't exactly what you are looking for but we are in the process of redesigning the entirety of Curse.com, which I've said to much of now. We'll be working on making it more user-friendly and I'm sure this is one thing we'll implement. Soon™.

Quote from DrSabaitso

Yes I do see it but only when i click on it from the list first.http://www.curse.com/mc-mods/minecraft It should tell you what the latest version it is for there without having to click each individual mod on the list first. That is what I mean and that is what many other databases do already. Yes it doesn't make much difference now as most are for 1.6.4 but when the 1.7 mods start dropping, you will have to click on each individual one just to see what version it is for and I can see that being a major pain.

Why not just list it with the other info like..

Like I said to the poster above, I'm sorry this missing information isn't in our system yet. Like I said above, we're working on a redesign and it's things like this that we need to know to make it better. Thanks!

Congrats to Curse. I have used this site forever, but never made an account until this year. Wow has the site grown.

I'm sure it hit this ages ago? Last time I checked how my mod was doing there was at least 850 up...

Anyway, lets test that mod thing with a little harmless promotion


(Guess I should update the project a bit over there... It'd be nice to get a few bonus downloads, I've almost got enough points for the £10 amazon voucher :D)

I despise how they aren't supporting the awesome world making community on CurseForge! There are more worlds than there are mods and there is some great content being posted almost everyday! I wish they'd push for that too....

I put a mod up on CurseForge shortly after the service launched in July, but I still send all my download traffic to GitHub from MCF. For those of us who maintain our mods on multiple branches of MC, Curse (and this nifty button tag) is not very friendly.