This is not much about donations or author payments but about infrastructure. WoWInterface does the same without a big commercial backer (just 3 guys keeping it up). I’m not very fond of Curse since they joined with Twitch but for years they provided huge hosting services for addons (the user is only seeing the forefront of it) and they still do to some extent. No addon author should have to request their addon to be taken out of that business scheme, WoWMatrix should ask first. Whenever those other sites tried to defend themselves against that leeching WoWMatrix found ways around it. They don’t host addons, they don’t provide developers support, no forum, no nothing - they leech download bandwidth other sites pay for and monetarize this leeching. The situation with WoWMatrix hasn’t changed at all.
