Minion occasionally bombs versions of addons

[Wykkyd]

I'm not sure what the root cause is, and this isn't constant. I've had several instances lately of end users bombing out on my addons when updating through Minion and more often than not the fix is to update manually and then wait a few days and everything seems to go back to normal.

This seems to happen most frequently with collections, like Wykkyd's Framework and Wykkyd's Gaming Suite. Both collections save the users a LOT of time and effort, and even the largest collection I have, Wykkyd's Gaming Suite, is less than half the total size of some other individual addons (it's only 221k, some addons are 1m to 5m). Individually all of those same addons total up to much more download size (upwards of 400k).

For some reason some addons just show old version numbers for days on Minion. I'll update and check and even hours later, sometimes days later, I see an old version in Minion but the website has the latest.

Had a user just this morning alert me that his Minion was showing a 5 day old version of Gaming Suite, yet the website has a new version from last night. And when he tried to update, he ended up with 2 copies of every included addon.

To a savvy user all of this is fine and can be worked around or bypassed. The tool, Minion, is most valuable to people who don't know how to, or don't want to, cope with all of the manual stuff though. So this should probably be investigated.

Tossing this up as a thread so others can chime in. Probably 2/3 of my support issues helping users lately have been resolved via manual install of my latest versions, circumventing Minion's provided versions. That shouldn't be the case (which I think you'll agree).