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prism contains some links to help pages, which don't exist yet but existed on mmc. we should work on adding them

It appears that the website is using v4 or v5 of Font Awesome, while v6.2.0 is the latest.

Updating Font Awesome shouldn't be too difficult or you can use your own kit from Font Awesome's website on your account.

Optionally, if you want, I can create a Font Awesome Pro kit for you to use, as I am paying $99/year for it to use on other websites and other company websites.

Font Awesome free kit for Prism to use:

<script src="https://kit.fontawesome.com/824ba5941f.js" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

or

Font Awesome Pro kit for Prism to use: (Access to Pro icons and more styles)

<script src="https://kit.fontawesome.com/52f8d85e94.js" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

Both kits provided are managed under my account.
But you can always sign up yourself and create your own kit.

#338

See title.
I note Windows 10 specifically because this version introduced an OS-level setting (previously this setting would've been in your graphics driver's configuration panel) - meaning we only need to provide one set of instructions.

I mentioned this in discord. If anyone wants to play around with JS, it would be cool if clicking the download button went to the proper OS page based on the found user agent or some other probing method.

eg: adoptium temurin download
https://github.com/adoptium/website-v2/blob/main/src/components/LatestTemurin/index.tsx
https://github.com/adoptium/website-v2/blob/main/src/util/detectOS.tsx

also it appears that most browsers from within the last few years also support architecture reporting as well WICG/proposals#40 (comment)

This is W.I.P I will be making a PR for this and the bot soon. Credits to Aqua:

Launchers or clients that claim to allow you to play Minecraft without an account (sometimes called "cracked") are very risky to you and your computer. Many of them contain "malware", software that can infect your computer and cause it behave incorrectly, or even steal sensitive data from you or your family members.
Prism Launcher always advises you to use a legitimate account to play Minecraft. You can buy one at https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/store/minecraft-java-bedrock-edition-pc, or try the free trial at https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/free-trial. You should only buy Minecraft either directly from Microsoft, or from a known store you trust.
If you have installed one of these "cracked" launchers or clients, we suggest you remove it, and take steps to scan your computer for malware. In the meantime, you should avoid doing anything sensitive on that computer such as internet banking or using social media. While we can offer generic advice, our community isn't equipped to act as technical support — so we can only suggest you see an IT professional if you need further help or have specific concerns.
Minecraft is a fantastic community, and we hope we can welcome you with a legitimate account!

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Suggestion

Remove suggestion to use CCleaner in your blog post and any other references to it.

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Read below.

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CCleaner is known bundleware/spyware.

Even if they have removed the offending components by now, they have lost all community trust.
And there are still alleged reports of backdoor action and malware behavior in the wild.

Wikipedia Bundleware

Some packages (M1 Macs and FlatHub for example) need steps done by the user to move all their old PolyMC configs and such to Prism Launcher, maybe there should be some kind of notice on the website for when you go to download from these locations?

Here's an incredibly scuffed concept i made in like 3 minutes

they are still on a old dev build for 6.1 and most icons are kinda out of date, this isn't really a important thing to change about the website, just wanted to make people know if they already dont, haha.

Affected File: src/wiki/getting-started/installing-prismlauncher.md

try making it so that PrismMC can automatically detect mods downloaded in the downloads folder and transfer to mods folder,
like ATLauncher

Might be intentional but PolyMC's index page shows the full logo with the name "PolyMC" however Prism's index page only shows the small hexagonal prism icon.

Enable Actions once rebranding is complete.

It seems that a unofficial driver has been released fixing these issues.
More Information + Download: "Get your Intel HD3000 (Sandy Bridge) Windows 10 64bit drivers here"

In the "Installing Optifine" page of the wiki, it says on the "Quilt" section that, There's no way of running OptiFine on Quilt, when Quilt can run Fabric mods just fine, just use the same steps with Fabric.

Quilt Loader running with OptiFabric and OptiFine, Fabric API works just fine and sadly Quilted Fabric API (QFAPI) / Quilt Standard Libraries (QSL) crashes, but the devs are currently creating support for the API

here

When seeing the 404 page in light mode the 404 text has a bad contrast with the background.

Light Mode
Dark Mode

The site is feeling pretty slow on Microsoft Edge Version 106.0.1370.47 (64-bit)
I didn't tested other versions/browsers but on this version of Microsoft Edge, the site feels slow because of body having: background-attachment: fixed; (Got this result from debuging scrolling performance issues mode, tested by removing it and it fixed the issue)

This page uses markdownlint, but there are 26 errors listed with markdownlint-cli2 "**/*.md". I don't have the energy to fix them right now, but this is too irritating for my linter obsessed brain to pass up.

Worth considering a GitHub action that automatically lints, like this one:

on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
  lint:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: nosborn/[email protected]
        with:
          files: .

Currently each button has a rainbow background and white text in celebration of pride month. However, this might cause a lack of contrast, as shown below, causing troubles for the visually impaired people. In the greyscale version, you can see that the "n" and "l" letters in the word "download" can hardly be seen.

Therefore, I suggest reducing the brightness of the background to resolve the problem. Another possible approach is adding outline to the text.

now that we support building with MSVC, we should add it to the wiki

With 6.5.2 Font Awesome now has a Bluesky Icon.
The website currently uses fa-square in place of this.

I tried to do this myself since #425 should have added it but I'm having trouble with this because it seems like Font Awesome isn't used for this but instead it's Fork Awesome.

I did manage to use font Awesome Icons by messing with the eleventy config but since font awesome currently doesn't have a Matrix Icon I'm not sure how to proceed.

Right now it's completely wrong, has to be fixed

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Operating System

Other

Version of Prism Launcher

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Version of Qt

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Description of bug

This wiki page: https://prismlauncher.org/wiki/getting-started/command-line-interface/

The original page had argument examples like -d, --dir <dir>. But those are gone and the formatting is strange, inside of the code block.

Steps to reproduce

Open wiki page and observe bad formatting.

Suspected cause

Presumably when importing from the old launcher wiki, those got put into the page literally as bad HTML tags, you can see it if you view source or open developer tools. Probably need to replace < with < and > with >.

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

I wanted to write a draft for the conception of Prism Launcher starting with PolyMC leaving MultiMC to go alongside the proposed new FAQ.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KCCoieSfftIM2OHLLQy4mbJOW72nDvnvOdThpy8YkJk/edit#

Let me know what you think, if there is more work to be done, or if this is even a good idea in the first place. Considering PolyMC did it, I figured we should do something similar, & I think this is the way to go. I tried to write without bias, as I am rather external to the situation anyway. Please let me know what else I can do to help :)

I think we should change certain wording of text on the website just to make things a bit clearer for users, especially since it is very similar to polymc's website at the moment. I wanted to get some feedback on some proposed ideas before opening a pull request as I am new to this project.

One example is that in the overview, we should mention not to contact polymc for issues regarding prism as well as multimc.

for example, these are the changes I would make, using brackets to show new stuff added

Please do not contact the [Polymc or] MultiMC team regarding issues related Prism Launcher.

I also think we should make some changes to the about section, mentioning that we were forked from polymc, not multimc (extremely nitpicky, but It just makes more sense in my mind) and personally I think we should rewrite the section after "While originally being forked over packaging/redistribution concerns" due to the recent incident and just mention that we allow full redistribution and forking as long as it respects the license.

here is an idea I had:

Prism Launcher is a custom launcher for Minecraft that was forked from MultiMC. It allows the creation, and management of multiple installations of the game, or "instances" rather, each having their own separate mods, resource packs, settings, and more. You are also allowed to fork, redistribute, and repackage the launcher freely as long as you follow the GPL v3 license.

This is just an example, and I wanted to get some feedback as I am new to this project. If you want I can open a pull request with some changes if this seems like it's ok, I just didn't want to open one immediately before consulting the developers.

Clicking the Help Button in the Copy Instance window of an instance leads to this link which gives a 404.

Also we might add a reference to https://www.steamgriddb.com/boop which makes installing artwork a lot less cumbersome when using steamgriddb

https://prismlauncher.org/wiki/getting-started/install-of-alternatives/
https://modrinth.com/modpack/additive

The build instructions page is getting quite long. Might be a good idea to separate it into pages for each OS. Would probably require mentioning cloning at the top of each pages' instructions.

The guide references trixie, this causes the repo to not work, a safe choice would probably be to set it to bookworm. I set it to bookworm on my sid system and it works perfectly.

Since a snap package is available for ubuntu, it'd be a good idea to recommend installing that instead of using a more conveluted way of adding repositories.

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.

In this page of the wiki:

https://prismlauncher.org/wiki/getting-started/installing-java/

it is instructed to download new Java versions. While this will work, I think users should be aware that if they already have the default Minecraft Launcher installed, and have run some versions of Minecraft with it, they could usually find the runtimes corresponding with those versions in the Minecraft Launcher installation folder.

An example: In Windows, given you have already opened a newer version of Minecraft with the default launcher, you could find the Java version 17 runtime executable in "C:/Program Files (x86)/Minecraft Launcher/runtime/java-runtime-gamma/windows-x64/java-runtime-gamma/bin/javaw.exe".

I think this should be mentioned in the wiki.

Prism should outline what data it collects through a Privacy Policy and Terms of Service page.

Now that 6.0 released, screenshot should be updated, as well as program_info/org.prismlauncher.PrismLauncher.metainfo.xml.in in the prism repo.

a modpack update page screenshot should also be added to both the website and that file

Role

I want to download Prism Launcher

Suggestion

Keep branding in-line with the current name of the project.

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Hi! Thanks for keeping this project alive! :-)
I saw the PrismLauncher website and noticed the screenshot on there says PolyMC in the window decorations titlebar.

I didn't see this reported yet on the bugtracker and I just wanted to make sure you're aware of still showing this name.

Again, thanks for keeping this project alive.

Role

Creator of useful mods list

Suggestion

The link to our github says (You can find a list of performance mods for Forge here.) but we do Fabric and Quilt (for 1.19 and up only) also

Benefit

Better informed users, And less lag :D

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this is the link that the launcher takes you when clicking "settings -> help" in the bottom left corner. takes you to a 404 page on prismlauncher website. maybe either create this page, redirect to https://prismlauncher.org/wiki/help-pages/ or change the launcher so that it points to https://prismlauncher.org/wiki/help-pages/ instead

Unlike the copr g3tchoo/prismlauncher which only contains PrismLauncher-related packages and presumably follows Fedora packaging guidelines, Terra is a third-party repo with other software that may or may not follow Fedora packaging guidelines... or any guidelines at all. Their website might as well be blank; the only docs I could find were technical, not policy.

It may not be obvious to PrismLauncher/Fedora users since Terra is not widely known; they may think they are only adding a repo for PrismLauncher like a copr/PPA/OBS.

Also they appear to have packages that overlap with Fedora repos e.g. dnf-plugins-core which might result in unexpected behaviour for users (installing/upgrading to Terra packages instead of Fedora packages).

Personally I don't think Terra should be listed at all since there is a copr, but at least there should be a disclaimer about third-party repos and a link to the Terra website so users can inform themselves.