Thottbot Merged with Wowhead Framework

posted 2010/11/30 at 3:12 PM by TheOnyx

In a review of our World of Warcraft community sites, ZAM Network has decided to make some changes to the Thottbot.com site. While Wowhead will remain unaffected, Thottbot will be sharing some of the Wowhead technology platform. A key goal was to improve the data available to the Thottbot community while retaining the Thottbot styling, navigation and community.

The following changes will occur to thottbot.com:

Thottbot will load its database information from Wowhead's database.
Thottbot will load its comment, screenshot, and video information from Wowhead's database.
Thottbot's blogs and forum have been closed. We will be setting up a Thottbot-specific forum on Wowhead for discussion specific to that site.
Thottbot user accounts are being deactivated. Unfortunately most of the accounts on Thottbot had no email addresses associated with them and Wowhead's technology requires an email address to register an account.

You will not need a Wowhead account to perform the following actions:

View database pages
View videos, comments, screenshots
View the Wowhead forums or blog

You will need a Wowhead account to perform the following actions:

Post comments or screenshots
Comment on forum or blog posts
Rate comments

Minor styling changes will occur to Thottbot in an effort to style elements from the Wowhead framework to match Thottbot's theme as closely as possible. The style of Thottbot will be maintained as much as possible.

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Comment by fox2nd So... Two different sites for the exact same info? Seems pointless. P=Comment by thebestjes While I like wowhead, Thottbot had a much simpler interface that got the job done much easier. It really is a shame to lose such a great resource. Comment by Clattuc I am stunned at the loss of the independent library. What a tragedy! Thottbot was full of useful info. It was a great companion to Wowhead. The world of player lore just got a lot poorer. Comment by MalonTurtle The move is a decent one, and I'm glad the thott interface is still up. Thott was always lighter, and wowhead annoys me with the party poker pop-up (which seems to be on a few sites). Overall though wowhead has become a pretty decent resource with a good sense of community.

It's a shame though to lose all of those old comments. It's interesting to go back and be reminded of the vanilla days. Granted some posts were a waste of bits, but at least it was never as bad as YouTube comments. YouTube comments herald the end of everything. Comment by ME412 Eww. Thottbot has a layout of a highschool Web design class' first website.

"Alright class, open up Frontpage and go to navigation, I'm going to show you how to use parent and child navigation structures today!""Where do I find navigation? is that in the white area?"Comment by BenjenStark Wowhead gets more traffic than Thottbot these days, but there's still a significant minority of people who use Thottbot for something. We're trying to make sure those people aren't left entirely out in the cold.Comment by nikkihamrick Also, TB is actually readable on my smartphone where WH is not. Comment by Monday Also, TB is actually readable on my smartphone where WH is not.Comment by chocolatewine On my Ipod Touch, WoWhead is quite readable (but it's no smartphone). Comment by Sweetscot Mines not a smartphone and it does have issues with wh, took me a while but i did finally get wow general working although a bit difficult since it isn't formatted well but that's the only boad i can get to work. I wish I had known tb was working on phones sooner...like before the boards were taken down -.- Comment by Saeg People will be upset now.. but in a few weeks people will be used to it and will stop crying.

Every time something happens on the internet which is not every day life, everyone starts crying, a week later suddenly no one cares anymore. See: Youtube and every time they change something. People get upset, people get over it.

Same thing applies. Comment by Pwntiff People will be upset now.. but in a few weeks people will be used to it and will stop crying.

Every time something happens on the internet which is not every day life, everyone starts crying, a week later suddenly no one cares anymore. See: Youtube and every time they change something. People get upset, people get over it.

Same thing applies.Comment by Adamsm Lol, love when people don't look at post dates heh. Comment by CrimsonPut ZAM owns thot too? i thought wowhead, thot, and allakhazam were enemys back then, and i think wowhead won :3Comment by pezz This happened almost four months ago. If you're only just now 'witnessin' this, and hadn't noticed it before, clearly you weren't as devoted to thottbot as you thought you were. Comment by studebakerstew Thottbot has been my Homepage for 5 years, not going to change anytime soon. Comment by Pwntiff Thottbot has been my Homepage for 5 years, not going to change anytime soon.Comment by mhunt40 this is stupid it only shows the armor for players who have accounts lvl 80 and higher. it dont show armor or weapons for people with like a 30 pally. before they did this it showed all the armor and weapons for every level. i say change it back. Comment by Muss What? If you are trying to use the search engine to look up gear then just refine the search using the level required box. You can also use the dropdowns to search for what drops in instances. Go to database /zones /dungeons.

Play around with the search engine for awhile and you'll find it works quite nice.

Also, Welcome to Wowhead. Comment by trilca wow I actually still had this site saved from my first days on WoW so many years ago! I remember idolizing Thott on EQ as The Bard to Emulate ( I never came close, go figure) but I practically lived on the Thottbot site after I gave up on EQ and came here. Glad to see it's still around even if it's now a subsidiary site..

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