Lately? Firefox…
Any good alternatives that use the same engine, but aren’t just “Firefox after rustling the about:config a bit”?
GNOME spawning 3 new DEs every time they have a major version update
Fixed minecraft(terrible name)->Harmony/Melody
Tl;dr: tries to fix minecraft in a way that would fit as part of an update made by mojang
Recently, there were multiple youtube videos that said minecraft was broken and multiple videos that said they fixed minecraft
All of the suggestions to fix minecraft either felt like modded minecraft, only considered how they play and prohibiting people from building, missing the point of some structures, making features useless, in one case hiding features so they make their paid mod look better and always forgetting about multiplayer
The one video i know that doesnt have these problems is one made by the youtuber green_jab. They also made a discord server for developing the mod after their suggestions named “fixed minecraft”
Because of homophobia, transphobia, bad leadership and other things, every single person helping them to develop the mod(which, as far as i know, were all queer) left, forked the mod, split it in 2(one is only for the server and doesnt need to be installed on the client, the other needs to be installed on both) and gave the mods actual names
Audacity was the first one I thought of.
Or MultiMC, PolyMC, the Sodium mod, or the original Minecraft Forge.
(Minecraft community devs need to stop having drama lmao)
Wait, what happened to Multi MC? I still use it whenever the want to play modded Minecraft returns
I actually had to look it up as I couldn’t remember why I made the first switch. PolyMC was forked from MultiMC after they dropped third-party modpack support. Then there was some drama with one of the devs of PolyMC, spawning Prism Launcher
I really don’t understand why PolyMC forked… Multi MC still has several third party mod packs available
I believe they were bought by someone and eventually implemented some questionable practices. I don’t remember the exact details, maybe someone else does.
The lead developer changed the license to a much less permissive one because of drama surrounding being credited in modpacks. The dev thinks there are forks that exist solely to sidestep crediting the original mod, I’m not up to date enough on Minecraft modding lore to know if this is true or not.
I’m pretty sure there’s also a fork that branches off of the last GPL commit but I forget what it’s called.
Doesn’t GPL technically require you to attribute the upstream anyway?
The work must carry prominent notices stating that you modified it, and giving a relevant date.
Lol, I mean it’s better to have a brief period of drama than permanently put up with the bad management. Although Sodium is an exception to that, I think the people working on it are the right people.
I’m conflicted on the license change, though. I don’t know if it makes sense or not.
That’s definitely true but at the same time why do people have to cause fights in the first place, they’re all part of a community for a game they enjoy playing :(
I also agree with you on the sodium license change, it’s definitely the most reasonable of the ones I listed since the dev seemed to be getting maintainer burn-out and had some bad experiences with other people in the MC modding community. I don’t really like the idea of it not being OSS though because the key strength of that is not being tied to a single maintainer or group.
There are many examples of this, but one that comes immediately to mind is the evolution of my favourite LDAP-enabled music player, airsonic-advanced
Subsonic begat libresonic
Libresonic begat airsonic as well as a whole bunch of other projects.
Airsonic begat airsonic-advanced
Airsonic-advanced begat kagemomiji/airsonic-advanced, however the maintainer of the parent codebase, randomnicode, wants to do the right thing and get their code up to snuff with the opensubsonic API (not sure where that fits in to thr history) so kagemomji can take over.
