Minecraft's Most Important Mod Is In DANGER

if you've ever downloaded a Minecraft mod then you've undoubtedly heard of curse Forge for years they've had a near Monopoly on mod distribution with other websites being plagued with theft fake mods and malware cursefort was basically the only legitimate option but as with any company that doesn't have much competition they started treating their creators terribly causing some of them to leave and that's exactly what's going on with curse Forge right now as some of its most important mod makers have now left the website and more creators will likely soon follow the most recent ones being mod menu Iris and sodium now if you haven't heard of sodium it's basically OptiFine on crack it's no secret that Minecraft Java Edition has performance issues particularly with low frame rate even on high-end computers and sodium fixes that by doubling your FPS it's the backbone that makes so many other things possible like extremely high render distances shaders ridiculous terrain generation massive mod packs and custom 3D models without sodium these things would make your game Run like slideshow and curse forge's actions have been harming these very important mods on the 15th of April the iris shader's Twitter account tweeted the following starting with Minecraft 120 Iris and sodium will no longer be uploaded to curse Forge please use moderate or our installer moderenth being a relatively new competitor to curse Forge with many of the same features and when people asked why the sudden change Iris posted this bombshell of a screenshot from their Discord going into more detail on how cursefort was treating them they started by saying this curse forger's website continues to have massive technical issues when it comes to project management we've been hoping for the longest time that something might improve with the situation but the new site's design is catastrophically broken with even basic edits to the description not working for context managing and updating mods on cursefort was already a nightmare and curseford recently updated their website to a new design which made things even worse so it's no surprise when the mods developers get fed up of having to deal with the website's technical issues just to released the latest version of their mod and curse Forge has shown no intention of fixing the problem they went on to say the newest development is that they're now prioritizing mod packs that rip off our mods branding in search results despite our repeated attempts to report the projects and for context here the makers of sodium have another very important mod called lithium which makes Minecraft servers run much smoother the problem was that some random person decided to upload a Modpack that was also called lithium and they used the exact same icon so that people would confuse it with the real one and this fake lithium always appeared above the real one in search results because it was a mod pack the makers of lithium tried to report this impersonator but curse Forge did nothing and allowed the fake Modpack to stay up for several months they only updated their terms of service to crack down on impersonation after the developers had left it was too little too late in their next point they said one of the biggest reasons we continued to publish on curse Forge was because of their author's Rewards program which gave us a share of funds from ad revenue on the project page but over for the past few months the revenue we receive has continued to decline despite the fact that our monthly downloads have increased steadily month to month so they'd been putting up with curse Forge because in the past it had no competitors so if sodium and Iris left they'd have nowhere else to go and ultimately curse Forge was paying them for their hard work so they just dealt with it but as they mentioned modrenth has introduced their own Rewards program which pays out a hundred percent of the ad revenue generated on an author's page case in point we've waited long enough for the situation to improve and it hasn't we are not interested in continuing to support the curse Forge platform when objectively Superior Alternatives exist which respects both authors and users so in summary with curse Forge cutting their pay at a time when it should have been going up and mod rinth offering much higher pay without treating mod developers horribly they decided to pull the plug on curse Forge moderenth was just a much more enticing option now this announcement only said that they would stop updating their mods on curse Forge all previous versions of the mods that were already on cursefort would stay so that existing mod packs didn't break and at the top of each page they put up a notice saying that any future versions of their mods must be downloaded from moderate or GitHub however in response to this curse Forge deleted sodium and iris's mod Pages for encouraging people to use moderate instead of curse Forge with the official Pages gone this left them open for anyone to re-upload unofficial copies of these mods and this was a big security risk since people could easily put computer viruses inside the mods and unsuspecting users would unknowingly download these Trojans thinking they were just getting a Minecraft mod the exact same thing has happened in the past with OptiFine which is also an FPS boosting mod there were many fake OptiFine websites that deliberately made it difficult to find the real ones so they could distribute malware and literally as I was editing this part of the video curse Forge had a security problem where someone created a bunch of curse Forge accounts to distribute malware and an account belonging to lunar pixel Studios was also compromised to spread viruses so the risk of sodium and Iris being used for these malicious purposes too is very real now In fairness to curse Forge Iris and sodium were published under the lgpl version 3 license which fully allows people to redistribute your code and even make money from it as long as they fulfill some very simple license terms so cursefort wasn't legally obligated to take down unofficial copies of the mods and according to the iris Twitter they only ever do stuff in favor of mod developers when legal stuff is involved however the potential security risk curse Forge had created meant they needed to do something so they did eventually reverse their decision they restore sodium and iris's mod pages and took down any unofficial copies of these mods however once again it just goes to show how little they care about the modders who make their website possible and how much backlash it takes to get them to do anything eventually on the 20th of April Iris tweeted that curseforge had listened to their complaints about plagiarism and explicitly banned re-uploads of other people's work but Iris maintained that they would not be returning to curse Forge while this policy was a very good step in the right direction it only addressed one of the many issues that had been brought up and this definitely isn't the first time that curse Forge has pulled some awful business practices in the past they had something called an API which allowed people to easily install not packs directly from their website into any third-party launcher which was great it massively streamlined the process of getting mod packs working so you could simply just play with your friends without hassling over individually downloading every single mod sorting out config files and troubleshooting incompatible mods however cars Forge didn't like people using other launchers like multi mc80 launcher or prism so in 2021 they locked down their API greatly limiting what people could do with it they did this to force people to use the official curse Forge app which is in many ways inferior to other third-party launchers and this anti-competitive decision alienated a sizable portion of the Modpack player base all in the interest of using the curse Forge app to show them more ads now obviously curse Forge is a large business their primary job is to make money after all so no it's not surprising that they'd act like this however that doesn't make it any less dubious or scummy now I shouldn't have to say this but I'll do it anyway please do not use this video to spread hate towards curse Forge all the mod developers who want to stay on curse Forge for that matter instead use this video to spread positivity towards the sodium Iris and mod menu developers as the work they do for this game is incredible and also use it to spread positivity towards modern which is treating them much better and as a platform they're just much more transparent with the community in general they're actually working on their own third-party Minecraft launcher right now with far superior functionality to the curse Forge app you can help them test out their new launcher right now by joining their Discord which I will link in the description all you have to do is sign up to be a tester and download the launcher however I should warn you their launcher is still in very early development and not super polished yet so you should expect bugs and janky Behavior which you can report to the developers they also have a Twitter and a public roadmap app that you can follow for updates both of which will also be linked in the description this isn't sponsored or anything I just want to let more people know about moderns competition is good and curse Forge hasn't had any for way too long now

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Length: 8min 12sec (492 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 08 2023