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.
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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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.
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.
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.)
Yall have done great work in spite of the circumstances.