Hey,

currently multiple looks of the PolyMC launcher are presented on the website ranging from plain KDE/Plasma, to customized Plasma and macOS.
It would be great if the style of the PolyMC launcher would be consistent across the website, both in terms of looks as well as size.
Maybe there is some sort of way to automatically create screenshots in a consistent environment?

Examples:
https://polymc.org/
https://polymc.org/wiki/help-pages/APIs/ (uses a language other than English)
https://polymc.org/wiki/help-pages/Java-settings/ / https://polymc.org/wiki/help-pages/Loader-mods/

Role

I use opensuse Leap 15.3 on my second computer

Suggestion

Change this:

to this:

Benefit

opensuse users will know about the package

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missing pkgs for slackware, *bsd and mac O$

Just thought I'd let you guys know in case you want to update the installation instructions about it.

The build instructions on https://polymc.org/wiki/development/build-instructions/ are now needing some love, because a lot has changed since it was last updated. We need to update things like valid build flags (remove Launcher_PORTABLE), and dependencies (like CMake, which has a higher minimum version now)

Mojang added player reporting to Java edition today in the latest 1.19.1 snapshot. So far it only allows for reporting chat violations, but it may be extended in the future to allow reporting other actions as well. I suggest that a news post covering this be added to the site as the change itself is quite controversial and could lead to game-wide punishments like on Bedrock edition.

Also sorry if this isn't the right way to suggest a potential news piece for the website, I did not know the correct way to suggest a potential news piece.

IMO it's bad to put politics into launcher.

Especially when you put ideologies that do attack entire countries and nations.

As you can see, in some places the text inside this inline blocks gets out of the block, or uncomfortably close to it!
(Image taken from the build instructions)

In the polymc.org homepage, scroll down until you reach the "Download Mods" header and look at the screenshot. In the bottom part it says "sort by relevence" instead of "sort by relevance".

I don't know if this typo is also present in the actual launcher since I'm away from my computer right now.

for lynx and similar browsers or for when you don't want your computer's CPU and RAM usage to spike to 60% when loading the page

The favicon in use on the website is this: https://github.com/PolyMC/polymc.org/blob/master/favicon.ico
When it should be this: https://github.com/PolyMC/PolyMC/blob/develop/program_info/polymc.ico

The previous about page has now been moved to https://polymc.github.io/wiki/faq/why/. I need help to create a new about page that does not attack anyone but instead describes the goals of the project.

When using DuckDuckGo while searching for "polymc", this page shows up, but not with the current PolyMC icon:

reminder to PR this later

This is a todo list for features that need to be addressed or changed

• New about page [#15]
• New Download Page
• Finish wiki css
• Alert tags for news

When clicking on the 'Help' button in the Settings menu in the PolyMC launcher, it opens the browser to https://polymc.org/wiki/help-pages/Launcher-settings. This page returns a 404 error instead of a wiki page.

It can be helpful to cite at the site that the appImage can be portable if you add a folder with the name of the appImage + .home at the same folder.

Currently the button on the top-right of the top bar are greened when you hover over them. It would be cool if, instead, each button had their own color when hovered, like blue for Discord, orange for Reddit, etc... :)

Yes

    Based and true! This cat is epic.

Originally posted by @BowDown097 in PolyMC/PolyMC#1495 (review)

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Hi, I just finished migrating from MultiMC, but I noticed that my icons were not carried over, as these are stored in /icons and not /instances.

Would be appreciated to add a sentence or two to the instructions about repeating the instance process on the icons folder. Thanks!

I think that the PolyMC start page - or sometimes called landing page - doesn't properly represent what PolyMC was made for:

Redistributability and Freedom, because MultiMC didn't wanna do it themselves

maybe that could be put at the bottom of the "Main Features" section or something?

https://github.com/PolyMC/polymc.github.io/blob/master/src/wiki/getting-started/controller-support.md

I was hoping my steam deck modpack could be given an shout out here as it is built specifically to function well with the Steam Deck , as well as other controllers

https://github.com/Merith-TK/mc-steamdeck-modpack

This has just come to my attention.

This website should not contain lewd or sexual content.
This is not appropriate even if it was for a joke. You can make a joke about Google Chrome themes or whatever without it being sexual. it needs to be removed or replaced with something appropriate.

News posts for updates should parse the GitHub issue numbers and usernames in the changelogs, so the issues and users can be clicked on from the website (and the launcher) without needing to find them manually or finding the release notes on GitHub.

As far as I understand, using GPL in websites makes no sense, because you are not redistributing anything. The AGPL fixes these loopholes.

Both versions of the Affero GPL were designed to close a perceived application service provider (ASP) loophole in the ordinary GPL, where, by using but not distributing the software, the copyleft provisions are not triggered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License

1.4.0 will be a huge release. The website will need changes too.

• Updating the build instructions to mention qt6 and always say to use mingw32 on windows.
• Updating the screenshots to promote the new 1.4.0 features, including mod updating and news reading for example.
  • this also includes updating linux screenshots in general because the current ones don't have any theme (they use fusion) and so don't look perfectly
  • this also includes updating org.polymc.PolyMC.metainfo.xml.in to not break flatpak
• Add Qt5 packages and explain the difference with normal qt6 ones

probably more :P

Should be:
https://polymc.org
When it currently is:
polymc.org

On Arch linux only 1.4.2 and older versions are available. Please update.

This #155 should be reverted

IMO the get involved part needs to be remade, I'm happy to do so and will create a pr, just wanna create this issue as a tracker of sorts.

I think it would be nice to add a roadmap to the website to track future goals of the project.

Operating System

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Version of PolyMC

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Description of bug

When hovering on Maintainers' pictures in About section it shows scroll arrows but there`s nothing to scroll.

Steps to reproduce

About > Maintainers > Hover on person picture.

Suspected cause

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• I have searched the issue tracker and did not find an issue describing my bug.