I don't see any malicious commits, and even if there were any, the more level-headed response would be to reach out to distro/repo maintainers and ask them not to update the package until further notice. The urgency of the message ("remove it immediately") on Twitter particularly is IMO unwarranted. That said, I think the only reason the community is rallying around this is because of the politics of it. I personally wish PrismLauncher the best of luck. One of the cool things about open source is the ability to swap to a competitor for any reason, or for no particular reason at all. No one likes a creator meltdown on a project they use. I understand that people's confidence in the project may be shaken. Is there a source on the developer/contributor thing? The GitHub page still shows 169 contributors. The project is declared compromised when the only thing that's happened is that the creator removed the code of conduct? Okay. The issue is the developer and what they did. The team who were kicked out have banded together to carry it on under PrismLauncher but it's very early days on that yet.Īrticle was updated after publishing to clarify malware was not an issue at the time. What are your options for right now? You can try:Īlthough, MultiMC comes with its own controversy for Linux packaging and licensing stuff but at least the developer isn't malicious. You should also revoke any permissions you gave to PolyMC via your Microsoft account. Sadly, this means the various videos and guides I did on PolyMC are no longer valid, and so I will be looking to cover other launchers in future. There's nothing to indicate malware or anything like that but any trust is simply gone, who knows what they would do next? You should 100% consider PolyMC to be compromised and move onto another launcher. What they've done is only show how they are completely untrustworthy, and they've basically killed the project. Regardless on your views, this kind of behaviour is not something anyone of any sane mind should support. In a message in the PolyMC Discord, they said this: People thought they got hacked but unfortunately this person seemingly just decided to attack others. After that, they then kicked out the other developers from the project in some kind of completely hostile takeover. Last night I was made aware of the situation and posted about it on Twitter but for those who don't follow along, here's what happened.ġ4 hours ago, according to GitHub, the creator removed the Code of Conduct with a commit message titled "reclaim polymc from the leftoids". Unfortunately, it seems a developer on the Minecraft launcher PolyMC went completely rogue and so for your own safety, you should remove PolyMC from all systems. These checkmarks indicate that the aforementioned Minecraft servers are online.Update: here's a fresh Steam Deck guide with Prism Launcher. Down in the lower-right corner of the screen you’ll notice a series of green checkmarks beside the words Web, Account, Skins, Auth, and Session. Let’s launch MultiMC for the first time, get the launcher linked to our Minecraft account, and take a tour of the handy user interface.īefore we even dig into MultiMC, let’s take a look at a very handy, but often overlooked, feature. Launching MultiMC and Initial Configuration By organizing them in this fashion you’ll cut down on modding frustration significantly. The goal is to organize your folders so that you can easily see where your maps, mods, resource packs, and other materials are as well as which version of Minecraft they go to. Feel free to copy the following folder structure to ensure your mods stay neat and sorted correctly by version numbers. This folder will serve, assuming you take advantage of it, as a repository for all the Minecraft mods and related materials you download. To that end, we’d encourage you to take advantage of the default mods folder within MultiMC, /mods/. We like to keep everything (mods, resource packs, etc.) within the /MultiMC/ directory so we can backup and sync our entire Minecraft experience in one swoop. Before you run MultiMC for the first time, let’s do a little preliminary housekeeping to help us keep things tidy in the future. To get started, download the appropriate archive for your operating system and extract it. Remember our strong emphasis on the importance of backing up Minecraft? MultiMC is a perfect fit for a cloud drive or a location on your local machine that is otherwise automatically backed up as the /MultiMC/ directory is completely self-contained and houses all your Minecraft stuff. MultiMC is a portable application which means installation is as simple as extracting an archive of the current version for your operating system. Installing MultiMC and Practicing Good Mod Organization
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