You know? There are a few nice people around here. They're great, I'd do anything I could to help them. The rest, though? Well... they're rude and not always that smart. I've moved on over to Nexus Mods. I can't stick it here, any more, honestly. I can't.

I mean, look at Gizmoduck, here.

Let's count the issues in just the latest post.

Issue #1:

He's treating me like an indentured servant. Apparently, if a strange on the Internet throws a wobbly, I have to leap to his beck and call, rushing to do what he commands even if their 'suggestion' is actively detrimental. Reality doesn't work that way. Try going to restaurant and demanding they provide you with seating and food for free, see how that works out.

This is a hobby. I don't accept donations, and I won't put up with that kind of treatment.

Issue #2:

He didn't even bother to read the description enough to understand what Pocket Apocrypha does.

I mean, he raises an interesting point about lore books. Should Pocket Apocrypha ignore lore books or just point at them? Perhaps. What our resident genius is failing to understand though is that there are many books in the game which aren't lore books, which aren't stored in the lore library at all. Pocket Apocrypha collects those for display. That's why it stores the book bodies. Derp.

Had he not been so abrasive and bothered to understand what the addon does, suggesting a different focus for lore books specifically might've been a good idea.

Issue #3:

He didn't bother to notice that this is largely a maintenance update from an existing mod, that I'm fixing things up as I go. I'm sorry that reality doesn't immediately conform to your desires, but I'm doing what I can with what time I have. I can't just drop all of my real life responsibilities to rush to do something that isn't actually a job. Which comes back to the indentured servant aspect.

Issue #4:

If demands don't work, perhaps sociopathic attempts at manipulation will? "HEY, THIS OTHER ADDON WORKS AS I WANT!" Well, why don't you spend the time and contribute some code? Like I did with Librarian. If the code is actually good, and not a trainwreck, I'll incorporate it. If it's terrible, I'll work on getting it in there myself, eventually.

Of course, if you knew anything about basic human decency, let alone manners, I would've taken your suggestion to heart.

I could go on... I won't. I think I've made my point.

The fact is? ESOUI's community is filled with sociopathic, entitled, spoiled brats who think that the world is theirs to shape and command. If you're not dealing with users treating you like **** and making ridiculous demands, you're dealing with other coders who think they're God's gift to coding and get combative if refused. I mean, if I was told my Librarian code wasn't wanted, I would've just quietly left. If I felt it was necessary, I would've forked at the very most. I wouldn't have caused a scene with the mod author in the comments.

There are just too many sociopaths. I can't deal with it.

And for the record, the issues were in pChat. A mod user who actually knows how to be friendly helped me track that down. The crashing issues were caused by another mod. Not that any of the God's gift coders bothered to try running PA on its own to find out if it really was causing issues, nor did they even bother to find out if they were running the latest code. Nope, just assume the worst and get angry when that doesn't work out.

I've had it.

I'm done.

I can't deal with this any more.

I do still want to provide people with my mods, though. I didn't know Nexus Mods had an ESO section or I would've moved on over sooner. The thing about Nexus Mods? Not only is the community there not as bad, but I can turn off the comments.

I'm done dealing with people like this.

I'm just done.

Edit: I just want to take a moment to thank @joshmiller83 for actually trying the MediaFire version, and being nice in general. As a person with an anxiety condition, this has been hard. (I moved this to the top as I want it to be seen first).

Notice: To those who're misbehaving (which isn't all of you), there's this thing we call good manners. I work on this for free and I'm trying to fix it without adding the danger of a system lockup to the addon (something that old Librarian was capable of if it misstepped). I'm not the kind of person who'd just throw in that kind of thing and forget about it. Any further hostilities WILL result in a post cleanup and reports. There's NO reason for attitudes. I'm doing my best, here.

I have a bad anxiety condition and overloading me isn't going to get anyone anywhere.

Here is an experimental version.

I have a request.

1.) Try the original MediaFire upload, do an import. Do you crash?
2.) Try the experimental MediaFire upload above, do an import. Do you crash?
3.) Try both versions with all other addons disabled, do an import. Do you crash?

The thing is is that my experiments have revealed that the latest version can't crash. I've benchmarked this. I don't know what's going on, and I want to find out. What convinces me more that there's something further untoward happening here...
Which is what I figured. I've run tests with data pools of different sizes, multiple times. I haven't seen a single crash.

If I were wrong, then you, I, or my partner would be able to reproduce this with the latest proper version. None of us can.

Edit 2: With ESO having no loop protection, is it so difficult to understand why I don't want huge data handling to happen in an OnUpdate? I've had Librarian lock up my entire system, and other addons. I don't like that. That causes me a great deal of anxiety to deal with, it's worse than the client just crashing. I don't want to inflict that upon others.

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Let's do this the way I did prior.

Does anyone have any issues with the above version of the mod? Specifically that one. Does that still crash people?

That's absolutely bizarre. I tried it with fake data over thousands of books and I couldn't get it to crash, so I'm not sure what's going on, there. Are you sure it's the latest 005 release, did the zip say 005? If it did, I'll continue working on it.

Edit: I think for some reason people are getting stuck with the 004 release. The correct one should say 005. If you're using Minion, could you try doing a manual update? I'll see what I can do about this in future releases. I'm fairly sure though that this is the cause.

Logically, there cannot be a crash issue in 005. If you insist there is, after a manual update, I'll absolutely look into it but I'd be genuinely baffled.