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its both a UI failure and also a security one too. I wonder how many minetest servers exist just to steal people's passwords for other things. Most users are not security minded and use one password for everything. So it's just a really bad idea in general. It would not be hard at all to simply gen...

Those are some pretty good points. Bridging more of the Discord rooms to Matrix or IRC seems like a good starting point to dealing with the mentioned issues. And I don't have anything against labeling proprietary services as such on the official website. We probably can't tell people what services t...

Minetest's built in profiler is quite useful in figuring out where the CPU time is going. Just set profiler_print_interval = 10 and debug_log_level = info or so and look at the log. But continuing with the theme of this thread, here are some blind guesses: Sounds like you have control over the clien...

This is ridiculous and I love it. I was surprised how well it plays.

Technically, it's important that Minetest's UI is flexible enough to make this possible and it's good that the amount of boilerplate code is fairly similar to what you would get with any 2D engine.

Was this not explained anywhere properly? The short story is, I watched the discord community grow on its own at a rather ridiculous pace (with no official status and no official mentions anywhere) while the IRC community was slowly getting smaller, I had to set a point where discord would be made o...

Currently, for modding information, minetest.net will make you go to the devwiki, and the devwiki links to https://minetest.gitlab.io/minetest/ on multiple pages, for example https://dev.minetest.net/Modding_Intro and https://dev.minetest.net/Lua_API_Documentation . It would be nice for a couple of ...

Nice try newbs. If you haven't followed the footsteps up the hill into the grumbuduts, stood on top of the cavegen revolution, and seen its beautiful opal windows turn into rubbish, the last glimpse of its builders, the first documented mese block, you have seen nothing. And only a true believer wil...

This will probably happen after we've made it a bit more of a low hanging fruit by using more sdl2 and less irrlicht. The timeline for that is a big question mark. I would say currently it is doable by a skilled and determined developer. It might take a considerable amount of work but I'm not sure -...

I decided to test a random mod and it was this one. I like how intense this is, and how you need a bit of skill to fly. I just wish I'd die in a fireball when touching the ground at speed.

Nicely written, but more importantly you have a good mechanical solution that relates to what I've wondered for years. One problem in Mine*-style gameplay is that usually in order to progress you have to play mostly as a wanderer, nomad, explorer - many terms for the same thing. But it's an engine d...

I moved devwiki (dev.minetest.net) also. I had to update mediawiki, and as a result there are some glitches in the ParserFunctions usage for the languages. I hope someone with mediawiki experience is able to fix it. All the extensions are still enabled, but they are updated versions.

but a bit of surprise, I didn't see any announcement about it (a plan, a preparing) and was hit fully nice: they do backup ohhh: they move the forum as often, decisions around mt are just there ... I just hope only moved, and no change of compatibility also What would life be without surprises 8)

I moved the forum to another host. It should be faster now.

$100 a week is already much more than I would expect to ever get though, no matter how I spent the money or begged for it, so in practice it doesn't matter.

I added a poll to the first post.

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Fri Jul 30, 2021 23:38

Patreon is outdated. Paypal is a safe bet. I use KOFI and it works fine too.

Wait what, Ko-fi says they take 0% fees. Where do they get the money to run their business? To me it seems they're just growing their userbase and afterwards will add fees.

PayPal is reasonably priced compared to more fleshed out alternatives, but it seems a service that provides some openness and the option for recurring payments could be more along the lines of what people expect these days. For example if using Patreon, I can imagine there would be a few people who'...

I was reading this https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?p=392751#p392751 and I could barely believe this part. Is this what people commonly think? 4. Open code, close money The only way to donate is through the website, and it's a PayPal donation link. I find it quite contradictory that a FOSS p...

Added to Goal 2: Maintain features and art styles for games After a decade of existing, MT has come far enough that some games want to maintain their function and art style. Games should be able to maintain their function and art style without players having to change settings. This means that if so...

I deleted outdated parts from the first post. Here are notable changes: We effectively have releases with multiple subgames now, with the content database accessible from the client. I removed every subitem from "Measure and fix rendering bottlenecks". Everything seemed outdated, but the o...

What if I say increasing the coordinate space will decrease performance for everyone, not just the 3 people using the increased coordinate space? This is due to obvious reasons: Coordinates take more space in memory, which decreases the amount of coordinates that will fit in the CPU cache among othe...

I've added 5 helpers which should be plenty for now. Thanks for the interest.

There's been a bit of a lack of moderator attention on this forum for some time now and I need to do something about it. If you visit the forum often and feel like you'd like to do something when you see spam, PM me to volunteer as a moderator. New moderators will be assigned as "Helpers" ...

Moved to General Discussion.

If someone is wondering... Yes, MT will be abandoning Github the day Microsoft accounts are required there.