Originally Posted by Nitewalker
Also, although I am not a programmer or coder, I do know that if a problem isn't mentioned it doesn't get fixed. Great suggestion to let the developer/author know what is happening in as much detail as possible so they can put their expertise to work and iron out additional bugs as possible. I'm a strong proponent of this and respect it tremendously.
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When I have a problem that I'm able to isolate to a specific AddOn I always take the time to go post on the comments for the AddOn so others (including the Author) can read and sometimes I pm the Author directly. I've even created highlight videos showing the problem so they can see it in a video. However, the point I was trying to make but didn't exactly spell out was when you use a lot of addons you sometimes run into problems where some addons conflict or just don't allow the game to run well.
Finding the conflicting addon can be a very time consuming process and even if you do find it and inform both authors that doesn't guarantee they can collaborate to fix the problem hence why I requested the "AddOn Profiler". Besides that is not the only reason, just simply having all addons enabled when you are not using them during certain game play puts more work on your client than there needs to be which as I stated can cause game lagg or other performance issues.
Currently the issue I have with certain addons which I have yet to pin point is when I AOE I get some game freezing/lagg. I know this is due to an addon or conflicting addons because when I disable a good portion of the addons that I'm not actually using during that time the problem goes away but later I need to go back and recheck all the addons disabled to do another action in the game. This is very tedious and quite frankly annoying again why I ask one of our great coders to consider creating an AddOn Profiler.
One other thing not all addons have or require a show/hide option.