list-of-shame

https://kennytv.github.io/list-of-shame

List Of Shame

A non-exhaustive list of projects to be known to have rather unpleasant vibes.

• A lot of the #saveminecraft followers - Have devolved from somewhat reasonable arguments into a tinfoilhat factory, using mods that, ironic to their purpose, actually contain vulnerabilities or usually open yourself up to self-incrimination.
• 1.8, “An outdated version of Minecraft with more security issues than features!” - Hasn’t been updated in quite a bunch of years.
• Every single closed-source (paid) 1.8 Paper fork on mcmarket, “[Optimized] [Cannons] [Everything is multithreaded]” - Mostly just copied off each other with little to no actual work involved or improvements done, with many even introducing major bugs or including security breaches.
• NFTWorlds - Selling Minecraft seeds and skins on the blockchain and getting mad at Mojang when they disallowed their bad practices.
• StellarDev, “Stealing code, but professionally” - Aside from the usual closed-source Spigot forks, get paid thousands to steal code without attribution, bar a little slip up…
• Yatopia, SugarcaneMC & Mirai, “The combined power of Paper forks for maximum instability!” - Tossed salad of people that haven’t even really understood the patch system. And yes, it’s that bad
• Hybrid Servers (Forge/Something else + Bukkit) “Smash two separate APIs together into a mess” - Servers that combine two incompatible APIs and break them both in the process.
  • CatServer/FoxServer, “Steals code from other hybrids and breaks their license” - Gets angry when Mohist and Magma DMCA them for breaking their license.
  • Mohist, “Get the worst parts of Bukkit and Forge and mash them together” - Swapped Essentials’ plugin jar after trying to submit a PR to Essentials to fix their own end of the Bukkit API. Then tried to turn Essentials’ PSA regarding security concerns into an ad.
• Songoda, “The one-stop sketchy marketplace for Minecraft plugins” - Because it doesn’t get more sketchy than Songoda.
• Yooniks - If you feel like you have too much money and you are looking for closed-source forks of Bungee/Spigot, Yooniks is your guy. He’s so good, even MCM banned him.
• Kangarko, “Become hated now” - Who needs well-made, basically free Java courses like JetBrains Academy if you can use Kangarko’s! Nowhere is safe from advertising the service.
  • Latest victim of Kangarko’s blame: All of SpigotMC
• NeruxVace, “Money ain’t got wings!” - Minigames network that won’t let anything stand in the way of its urge for success, not even replacing the heads of staff every few months after they get fed up.
• EpicWorldGenerator - Because it sure is worth spending $20 (originally $40) for something that has several free alternatives with the same features.
  • Also based on code directly stolen from a free mod (Realistic World Gen)
• WorldQL - Interesting project with a promising idea, but with Sugarcane-level advertising, vastly blown out of proportion, and already containing countless 🚩 in their Spigot plugin.
• EntityTrackerFixer, “Minecraft tracks alot of entities - so let’s just not do that” - Just use Paper, man.
• PM2 - 10/10 review and resource bumping (not to be confused with pm2 Process Manager).
• SunLight, “Advanced server management plugin with all the plugin-breaking bugs your server needs!” - It takes RGB chat formatting to a whole other level, parsing hex codes in * other plugins’* commands with the only way around that being to use their library to convert them back.
• ProVotes - Premium in the least premium way possible.
• ClearLagg, “Use one of ClearLagg’s many utilities to make lag”
  • Causes more lag than it removes and doesn’t even know its own name.
• IllegalStack - Actually introduces dupes, eats 15% of your ticks, and likes to do wonky things like removing nametags of players and entities.
• Slimefun, “It offers everything you could possibly imagine. From taking 70% of your tick to clearing inventories at random!” - Tries to turn your server in an FTB modpack, but a lot more cursed.
• FastAsyncWorldEdit, “Fast async world exception” - Fast, fast at breaking things.
• AsyncWorldEdit, “Async world exception” - Like FAWE, but slower and breaking the WorldEdit license.
• CMI, “Over 280 must have bugs for your server!” - A substitute for EssentialsX for the people that think paid=good.
• SkinsRestorer, “System.out.println("[SkinsRestorer] ") , try {} catch (Exception e) {}”
• ViaVersion, “1.8-latest KitPVP” - Enables the evil to continue to live.
• ProtocolSupport, - Like ViaBackwards, just with even more evil.
• Retrooper
• Retrooper, again
• The Duper Trooper - Clickbait YouTube channel that “leaks” often outdated exploits and other security related issues to the public and encourages its followers to report to them instead of disclosing properly.
• kennytv - German streamer who has repeatedly failed to meet streaming obligations
• alexisl315 - Your go-to dev for laggy, inefficient skript recreations of popular plugins. Ignores any critique given in reviews and makes fake updates that only change a few lines at most.

Software Alternatives / Info Threads

This section is the only part of this page you should actually take somewhat seriously.

• “Super optimized all-in-one server” alternatives: The most performant AND properly stable will likely always be Paper
  • Info: https://github.com/kennytv/Yaptapia (not necessarily bound to Yatopia)
• “Hybrid” (Forge/something else + Bukkit) server info/alternatives: Essentials’ PSA.
• Anti-lag plugin alternative setup and info: https://www.spigotmc.org/threads/283181/ and https://www.spigotmc.org/threads/283181/page-20#post-3684550
• Dupe fixer alternative: Use Paper (or one of its sane forks) and stay on the latest version of Minecraft… unless you run a creative server, then plugins make sense to clear data-spammed items
• EWG info/alternatives: https://www.reddit.com/r/admincraft/comments/km185p/epic_world_generator_is_based_almost_entirely_on/
• SkinsRestorer alternative: For the love of god, don’t use offline mode
• CMI alternative: EssentialsX, given its free, open source, and you are less likely to run into problems, or will have them fixed faster… though there isn’t really anything wrong with liking CMI how it is, either

List Of Fame

If you’re looking for hot projects around Minecraft, take a look at https://github.com/Incendo/awesome-minecraft

Disclaimer

This list does not mean you must not use any of the above-mentioned, or that all of them are actually bad ( especially the lower you go down the list). Take it lightly and please correct any plainly wrong information. Have a nice day, k thx bai.