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2.5.0
The day GitHub is down is no longer your problem
On 17 August GitHub was out for three hours. Everything this app reads lives there: the
catalog, the mod archives, the file that recognises mods you installed by hand. The mirrors it
already had are all proxies standing in front of GitHub, so they went down with it. The window
opened, the catalog was empty, and nothing could be installed.
There are two more places to look now, and neither is GitHub. The catalog and its data are
copied onto the app's own site every time that site is built. All 915 mod archives sit in
object storage behind cdn.dota2modmanager.com, refreshed nightly. GitHub is still asked
first, because it is the source; the others answer when it cannot.
A catalog that fails to update no longer disappears
If the app could not fetch a fresh catalog, it used to show you nothing, even with a perfectly
good copy already on your disk from an hour before. Now it shows the one it has and says so in
a line at the top. An old list of mods beats an empty window.