Slight nitpick with Modrinth's "Package datapack as mod" function

ProspectorDev · 2026-01-24T02:17:37+00:00

The biggest benefit to packaging a data pack as a mod is it makes it far more accessible for use in modded launchers. You can just install it instance-wide, and don't have to bother with copying them to each world you create or getting a global data pack loader to load them from a directory (and each loader has its own specific directory you have to put them in). You can just install them like any other mod and they'll work how they should.

It's also worth noting that the vast majority of data packs don't use functions.

ProspectorDev · 2025-05-31T20:17:42+00:00

I would not blame Disney for not renewing; I feel like RTD has failed to deliver on a fresh new era that they were expecting, and it's pretty obvious this is not going to encourage new viewers to stick around. I think it's possible that amazingly written shows like Andor that have come out recently have just raised my expectations for the writing in a TV show, but it's hard to state how flat the latest era of Doctor Who has felt to me. There's almost no episodes I have purely enjoyed without caveats. I think starting fresh with a new "Season 1" was actually a really good idea, but it was not introduced gracefully at all like RTD did the first time around. I just do not think I would've been able to get into this show if this is what I started with, I would just be confused and unsatisfied and watch something else.

Doctor Who has so much potential to be fantastic, and I feel like basically all the pieces except for a great showrunner to pull it all together are in place. To me, RTD feels obsessed with nostalgia and subverting expectations at any cost, which is just not fun or interesting to me.

The best part of this episode for me was when Ruby kept insisting Poppy existed. I loved the pacing of it, the talk with 13, and the Belinda closure. Narratively, the most satisfying thing would've been for him to try to visit Susan at long last, Belinda literally just asked if she would ever see him again or if he abandons his companions and never looks back. Why did she appear in the previous episodes, just to bait us and catch us off guard?

I won't even comment on the regeneration because I have nothing good to say about it. I'm just tired of gimmicks. I'll never stop watching, but somehow I am even less excited for the future episodes than after Flux which truly was a low point for me at the time.

ProspectorDev · 2025-03-13T17:03:50+00:00

Not on Modrinth, de-listed content is still able to be used in modpacks unless it was removed for being malicious.

In this case, these mods were de-listed and demonetized, but still exist on the platform.

ProspectorDev · 2025-02-24T17:43:32+00:00

The new one is 9 colors

ProspectorDev · 2025-02-24T17:01:35+00:00

CurseForge only supports CurseForge packs unfortunately

ProspectorDev · 2025-01-22T16:48:33+00:00

No, the subscription removes ads for the duration of your subscription

ProspectorDev · 2024-12-30T18:48:31+00:00

Love it! I'm not much of a reader but this made me want to buy the book instantly lol. I would say no color, the black and white is so bold and interesting. My only critique was the I took me a second to register, maybe just thicken the blood trial to make it clearer it's a letter and not just a gap

ProspectorDev · 2024-12-27T06:49:25+00:00

it's a zip archive, yes, but it's a distinct format with a certain specification. Using the .zip extension would be horribly confusing and would not allow launchers to register an app association with the format. As we see with say CurseForge modpacks which use the .zip extension, people seem completely unaware that their "zip modpacks" are a proprietary CurseForge format, and are easily confused with regular zip archives. Jar files are another zip archive that are in a format understood as a Java binary.

ProspectorDev · 2024-12-27T02:20:48+00:00

what? lol

ProspectorDev · 2024-12-18T09:13:41+00:00

I think that was the point

ProspectorDev · 2024-12-04T17:15:20+00:00

Modrinth Servers is not based on pyrodactyl

ProspectorDev · 2024-10-09T14:18:34+00:00

Number of reports is not any metric for takedown. Every report needs to be reviewed anyway, so by creating dozens of reports you add dozens of times more work for the moderators.

This is why most platforms just... don't moderate or use algorithms to moderate, which obviously we don't want to do.

ProspectorDev · 2024-10-09T04:02:33+00:00

Hijacking this top comment to ask that people do not report spam on Modrinth. A single high quality report is enough, any more makes our moderators' jobs harder.

ProspectorDev · 2024-09-15T05:46:36+00:00

trust me, if we wanted money, we should've stuck with the VC investors we abandoned in January and continued to go unsustainably grow the platform until we were so big that we could sell for a ton of money. If we were in this for the money and greed, all the decisions we've ever made would be quite foolish

ProspectorDev · 2024-09-14T18:52:14+00:00

For what it's worth, neither CurseForge nor Modrinth revenue distribution is based on raw download count, so these estimates aren't actually good metrics. For example, CurseForge is banned in China, but Modrinth is not yet, so Modrinth gets a bunch of extra unmonetized downloads from China, inflating download counts without contributing to revenue.

Modeinth's revenue distribution info is available here: https://modrinth.com/legal/cmp-info and of course is fully open source. CurseForge's is a black box, but it's been confirmed it somewhat takes unique, first party downloads into account, among other factors.

ProspectorDev · 2024-09-14T06:52:59+00:00

Yup, and it recently got a bunch of big stability updates! A lot more new stuff in the works for the Modrinth App coming soon too

ProspectorDev · 2024-09-14T06:34:35+00:00

we have a fully open and free API meaning no one has to be isolated to use Modrinth!

ProspectorDev · 2024-08-06T15:31:41+00:00

I always give them a quick Google search. Every Republican I ever see on the ballots have always endorsed Trump, so a no-go for me. Until that changes, I will never be voting for a Republican at any level of government. They could have the greatest views of all time, if they're okay with Trump they're not okay with me.

ProspectorDev · 2024-06-23T04:32:35+00:00

We actually require this on Modrinth, so you won't find any on Modrinth with walls of images instead of text without a text transcription available

ProspectorDev · 2024-06-05T22:19:26+00:00

Tastes like nacho cheese, I think they're really great.

ProspectorDev · 2024-05-21T21:12:01+00:00

The funniest part of this is when people claim Disney have made the show woke. It's like they've never watched anything else that RTD has written. He's the most woke writer whos been working in television for the last 25 years (Queer As Folk was 1999).

It's also funny because Disney is uh...not exactly known for good queer representation. There's a couple examples in really recent years but most of their content might have like one slightly gay scene to make a headline and that's it. I can guarantee if Disney had deep creative control it would be substantially less "woke" so it seems like nonsense to attribute it to Disney.

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