- Joined
- Dec 17, 2019
It was discussed in the Minecraft thread from page 46 where a lot of what went down got documented. Prism devs also actively sabotaged PolyMC with what little control they still had over it to use it as an argument to take it down from Flatpak. So yeah, Prism is very fucking trustworthy. Lenny was 100% justified in kicking Scrumplex & Co off his project. Because PolyMC was his project, unlike what the Scrumplex squad wants people to believe.I was there when it all went down and i went into detail with what i remembered about the entire thing, and some lesser known things that also happened, here.
So for a quick recap:
MultiMC dev refuses to add basic QoL features like installing modpacks and having an AUR/Flatpak release, so the PolyMC project is started with Lenny as the head honcho. Later on Scrumplex & Co do most of the contributions. They add a CoC. Lenny disagrees with it but gets told to get bent.
One day Lenny kicks everyone off the repo to seize control over his project. Scrumplex & Co go into full spite mode. They actively spread baseless lies about PolyMC being compromised, fearmongering that it's suddenly malware and you need to switch NOWNOWNOW. Of course never saying why or how it's malicious. The big scare was that it'll steal your MS account, but there is no way to accomplish that with the MSA API, of which they've revoked the key that PolyMC used that was apparently malicious. These lies were also spread by Mojang employees by the way. They try to take down everything that Lenny doesn't control. AUR, Flatpak, all for nothing, Lenny retained full ownership in the end. They went so far as to sabotage PolyMC to use it as an argument to get it taken down from Flatpak.
Obviously, they should've just made their own fork and keep developing it in the true FOSS nature. But these are leftists that we're talking about. They had to destroy PolyMC to make sure that their fork would be the only one that would remain, but they ultimately failed, having to resort to spreading baseless lies about Poly to dissuade people from it while keeping their own image squeaky clean despite the amount of shady, untrustworthy shit they were up to when the whole ordeal went down. Of course they've named their fork "Prism Launcher" and put the six colors of the LGBT flag on the logo, but in pastel colors so if you tried to confront them about it directly they'd do their weasely leftist semantics to paint you as the loonie that's seeing things. Because of course, a fork of a launcher that had a coup d'etat over the leftist manifesto that Contributor Covenant is, that fought tooth and nail to destroy it afterwards, wouldn't do an obvious, politically charged rebranding like this out of spite.
The best part is that PolyMC today is a solid launcher that already does everything that Prism does, the stuff you'd use it over MultiMC, but you don't have to worry about the devs being nutcases that would be the ones to implement malware into it to fight off wrongthink. And, it supports non-premium/authlib-inject play, something the troon devs would never do because "muh heckin' piracy le bad".
tl;dr: never use Prism Launcher, it is maintained by lunatics. Use PolyMC and whenever someone recommends Prism, point towards Poly and mention all the untrustworthy shit that Scrumplex and his goons were up to. They don't want people to remember that, so it is in your duty to remind everyone what they were up to those 3 years ago.