The Wabbajack server-side code consists of two main parts, the CDN (essentially a FTP+HTTP server, with a 1Gig pipe) and a backend server that does list validation, Nexus caching, list healing and a host of other small tasks (but doesn't require a...
2021-04-19 22:16:45 +0000 UTC View PostI just released version 2.4.3.2, it's a small release but fixes a rather big bug that was causing WJ to crash on startup if run from a Root drive. It ended up being related to a bug that's existed in the code for some time. We normalize paths in t...
2021-04-01 23:02:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt's time for a new update, and this time the post is also synchronized with a somewhat minor but foundational update.
I spent most of the past 7 days doing research into the best way to update our UI to be a bit more consistent. As it sta...
Little over a week, since the last update, but a lot's been going on.
Almost right after my last post we had the fantastic experience of having our CDN go down. Out of the blue parts of the files we hosted on BunnyCDN decided to not ...
Each week that goes by reminds me that I *still* haven't updated all our patreon supporters on the state of Wabbajack. I often sit down in the evening, think I should make a patreon post, then go do some coding and forget to actually write the art...
2021-03-03 04:15:45 +0000 UTC View PostSo another year with WJ is in the books! Statistics are always fun to look at, so let's start with those, in the past 12 months, 48,879 users have completed installs 191,690 times. Over that time the most popular lists have been:
* Living S...
It's been way too long since I've given an update on Wabbajack. TL:DR of this post will be "things are fine, I've been fixing bugs". Kicking off the past two months was the wonderful experience of contracting <human malware>. Wasn't a bad ca...
2020-11-07 05:44:09 +0000 UTC View PostOver the past week I've spent quite a few hours working through our rather messy file extraction code. There's quite a few problems with file extraction in general, and finding the correct combinations of features and limitations has been quite ha...
2020-09-09 13:09:52 +0000 UTC View Post
At the start of the month we bragged that on Aug 1st we had the most users of Wabbajack in a single day. At that time we would have never guessed that that record would be broken by 2-3x in the next week. Shortly after that post, PC Gamer ran an a...
2020-08-17 04:31:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I couldn't resist the troll title on this one. A few weeks ago a developer in our Discord (thanks Unnoen!) pointed me at a new feature in recent versions of Windows 10. It seems they finally came up with a mostly decent version of disk compression...
2020-08-09 02:06:21 +0000 UTC View PostYesterday I released Wabbajack 2.1.0.0 which includes several small, but fairly important improvements:
First of all, Wabbajack now use game files as a "download source" both during compilation and installation. This seems strange at first,...
This is just a quick update post to say thank you to all our patrons, and supporters in the modding community. This past weekend we surpassed 20,000 users on our discord! In addition I have a few more fun statistics:
Since January 1st, 2020...
It's been a busy past few weeks, and I haven't had time to update y'all on what's been going on, but I finally have some breathing room.
2.0 was released recently and we've already had several point releases after that fixing bugs and th...
2020-05-10 13:22:28 +0000 UTC View PostIn the aftermath of the Wabbajack 1.0 launch I took some time off for a bit of a rest. Coming back to the project a week or so later, I realized there was a lot of cruft in the project I would like to fix. Issues that didn't impact the user experi...
2020-03-31 04:18:13 +0000 UTC View PostAfter 7 months of heavy development Wabbajack 1.0 is now live. Thank you so much to our moderators, mod list authors, mod authors, discord members and supporters for making this effort possible.
Unlike many "1.0" releases, this one is cons...
There's a saying in computer programming, that the last 10% of a project takes 90% of the work. At this point it certainly feels like we've been "almost ready to release 1.0" for a few months. The good news is that the last few bits of major progr...
2020-02-17 22:19:15 +0000 UTC View PostThat phrase could be seen as good or bad, and frankly it was a little of both this time around.
About two weeks ago Total released the Total Skyrim Overhaul, a Requiem based SSE list focused on role-playing and a bit more "hard core" mechan...
Although the Nexus is the defacto-standard source for downloading mods, there are a surprising amount of mods that exist on other sites: Lovers Lab, ModDB, tesall.ru to name a few. Unfortunately many of these sites have custom login systems and ca...
2019-12-18 07:10:28 +0000 UTC View Post
The end goal of Wabbajack has always been to install mod lists with as few user interactions as possible while still respecting the copyrights of the mod authors. One of the hiccups in this quick install process has always been the two steps of do...
2019-12-16 00:08:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Our previous tutorial video was woefully out of date, so I took some time today to record a new one. You can see several of the improvements we've made over the past few months. A new GUI, new download sites, and a curated gallery of mod lists. In...
2019-12-15 06:15:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Things have been quiet on the news front lately, but that's not to say work isn't still continuing at a rapid pace on Wabbajack. At this point the app is feature complete, but we're spending the next few months in polishing and improving the rough...
2019-11-12 14:21:36 +0000 UTC View PostAs you may know, if you follow Skyrim modding drama at all, Arthmoor and I have been in a bit of a debate over the past few months over what actions Wabbajack should be allowed to perform during installation. Before I continue, I do want to make i...
2019-09-29 22:44:56 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been exactly two weeks since I last posted an update, so it's about time I explain some recent developments.
First I want to start by addressing a bit of the drama happening in the Bethesda modding community, caused mostly by my actio...
About 4 days ago from today the Wabbajack community exploded. Mostly due to JuiceHead's video on Wabbajack ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57WSI36bc4U ) we saw o...
2019-09-13 00:28:51 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been awhile since I've updated this patreon, but things have been trucking along in the mean time. The changelog shows the complete changes ( ht...
2019-09-05 22:51:45 +0000 UTC View PostI just cut a release of Wabbajack 0.7. Mostly internal changes, but the biggest features are that Fallout New Vegas is now supported, and compilation times are much reduced. The new VFS code stores all hashes in a single location. This means that ...
2019-08-23 04:19:35 +0000 UTC View PostSo I got a rather large modlist installed and while testing the compilation of the modlist with Wabbajack, I realized we have a rather big performance problem.
This problem comes mostly from the way Wabbajack finds matches in the files in ...
In software development there's belief that developers should regularly "eat your own dog food" also known as "Dogfooding". In short it means personally using the product you're building. New features are nice, but until you actually try to use th...
2019-08-11 23:10:24 +0000 UTC View PostWith the latest release (v. 0.6), we are now feature complete for SSE. The latest release includes support for nested archives. This means not only can Wabbajack install files that come from archives inside archives, but BSA files are considered n...
2019-08-09 22:08:15 +0000 UTC View PostQuick update on the progress of Wabbajack, after the initial release last Saturday we got a nice influx of users on the discord (https://discord.gg/SSk4aB) as well as a nice set of...
2019-08-07 03:07:34 +0000 UTC View Post