Meet the new forge, same as the old forge. Forge has been forked, with the majority of forge’s developers moving over to the fork, NeoForge. They hope to implement some major improvements come 1.21 and maintain compatibility with Forge mods on 1.20.

  • cpw@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Yup, we did the thing. It’s sad that it came to this, but the project was unlikely to continue in a recognizable form for too much longer if we didn’t. The actual launch didn’t really go to plan due to some unfortunate problems with operation security but whatever. It’s done now. To clarify, lex owns all the names and stuff, so we had little choice but to fork and rename. We’ll be building new art and assets in the coming days. The discord is the best place to discuss because we’re all there. Ther will be updates as we cement plans and finalize our message around the lex situation. But #general is already showing receipts.

    Also yes, I am that cpw. I posted a link on my mastodon confirming my identity on Lemmy and my GitHub is linked to mastodon, and you can see the first few activities on neoforged here: https://GitHub.com/neoforged/neoforge

    • ben@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 years ago

      You are absolutely the kind of person I’d expect to find using Lemmy instead of Reddit. It’s good to see someone fairly reputable in the modding space over here.

      • cpw@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Heh thanks. I came over during the great Reddit API saga.

  • Ascyron@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    2 years ago

    They say many should already know why this is happening - I, for one, have no idea. Any goss or theories why?

    • sauerkraus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      If you remember the drama back when Fabric came around or even before then: the head developer of Forge has been what the youfs call a “discord moderator” for a long time. A petty tyrant stifling innovation and using his stranglehold on the entire Minecraft modding community to suppress competition and simply people he doesn’t like. The behavior was tolerated because no alternative was developed/popular enough to gain influence.

      Not sure what the final straw was though. Perhaps a critical mass of mod devs escaping to Fabric.

      • cpw@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Nope. I was just done defending him and his shitty behaviour. Especially when I found out what he did to curle, the person we specifically placed in a public facing role, a task she handled with aplomb. I was through defending him.

        • Lvxferre@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 years ago

          I hope that NeoForge thrives, and Forge itself becomes deprecated.

          I’m no modder but I’ve been following the drama in the modding scene across the years, and when it was about Forge it was always around LexManos; always. It was always “Lex insulted someone”, “LM can’t compromise”, LM this, LM that… and in the meantime you were actually trying to dialogue with everyone else, even FlowerChild. And people might say “it’s just code, it’s maths”, but this sort of social work is essential to get anything good of those maths, so I hope that you guys are now in a better position to do it.

          (I also agree with sauerkraus - you guys have done a great job, in spite of circumstances.)