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Any connection between Thotbott & Wowhead?
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Post by
humma
is there any kind of connection between the two wow databases?
lets say in 80% of all cases these two sites are used to find coordinates or just simply how to finish a quest or a get an item.
Thotbott exists much longer and has far more information about the thousands of quest and etc. so my question is: is there any kind of data switching thing between these two?
Post by
Skyfire
They are both owned by the same company, ZAM.
Other than that... I'm fairly there's no sort of information switching going on.
Post by
TheOnyx
The databases are maintained independent of one another. While owned by the same company, the sites are staffed by different people.
Post by
bwirum
And Thottbot has done a much crummier job of keeping a clean database imo.
Post by
Skyfire
And Thottbot has done a much crummier job of keeping a clean database imo.
True, but let's leave the bashing to other places. :)
Post by
pelf
Does ZAM intend on keeping these completely separate forever? Seems like they'd want to capitalize on the strengths of each and merge them eventually...
Even though that makes sense to me, I'm still kind of scared by the thought.
Post by
Ikari
Seems like they'd want to capitalize on the strengths of each
WoWHead's clean and fast set up and Thott's popularity huh?
Easiest way: Make Thottbot's URL redirect here. :)
Post by
asole
Yes both owned by ZAM but totally difficult developers & users.
Post by
zdravko
Wowhead looks far better and it is easier to use(plus it gives equal information as thottbot) so I find it much better then thottbot.
Post by
Aevitas
I think both websites use the same ways of obtaining informations about items, quests, events etcetera.
Although WoWHead is much further than Thottbot, because of their superior use of CSS, XHTML and PHP scripting. It's definitely not related to eachother. WoWHead leaves Thottbot miles behind.
Post by
Helliox
Seems like they'd want to capitalize on the strengths of each
WoWHead's clean and fast set up and Thott's popularity huh?
Easiest way: Make Thottbot's URL redirect here. :)
Yea, that would be a great ideea :) wowhead is far superior to thottbot, and i dont know any person that uses thottbot anymore, because of their messy database and lame design :)
Post by
pelf
Thottbot's looter just seems to have been designed without the forethought with which the Wowhead one was designed. There are data points in very unlikely locations, un-merged sets of mobs that represent the same thing and very strange things that often make no sense that should probably have been screened on the way in or
somewhere
, at least.
As I said before, it seems like it's something they'd
want
to do, but it scares me to think of what would happen to Wowhead if they did.
Post by
92549
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Post by
pelf
wow, I had no idea they were owned by the same company...
But why would one company want two different competeing sites?
Three, actually. ZAM owns Thottbot, Wowhead and Allakhazam, right?
Post by
20820
http://www.zam.com
Zam currently owns Thottbot, Wowhead, Allakhazam, MMOInterface (WoWInterface) and OnlineGamingRadio.
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