Zangoose 86 points 2 years ago

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)

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Korne127 49 points 2 years ago

I love how well the PolyMC -> PrismLauncher transition went. It’s great that the asshole owning it didn’t just spew transphobic hate, but also removed the contribution rights to all other people, leading them to immediately flock to an alternative.

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SaintWacko 43 points 2 years ago

Wait, what happened to Audacity?

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crimsoncobalt 32 points 2 years ago

I believe they were bought by someone and eventually implemented some questionable practices. I don't remember the exact details, maybe someone else does.

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kboy101222 11 points 2 years ago

Wait, what happened to Multi MC? I still use it whenever the want to play modded Minecraft returns

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TheRedSpade 19 points 2 years ago

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

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RandomVideos 9 points 2 years ago

What happened to the Sodium mod?

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Zangoose 14 points 2 years ago

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.

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Strawberry 7 points 2 years ago

what happened with the original Minecraft Forge?

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Zangoose 6 points 2 years ago

The dev who owned the branding for forge (LexManos) is infamously abrasive and rude to others to the point where the forge community was slowly falling apart because new people didn't want to be involved with him. The rest of the team decided to rebrand to NeoForge and continue without him.

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rbits 6 points 2 years ago

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.

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Zangoose 4 points 2 years ago

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.

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