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The backlash against vibecoded decomps and using a lot of compute for unimpactful projects was met with the counterargument "why can't you vibecode something useful like Photoshop instead?"

When they did vibecode Photoshop, well...

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No, the backlash was because vibecoded decomps were trash, incomplete, and quickly abandoned once the attention rush wore off. You'll never guess what's happening to these!

Take a look at the commit cadence of the Photoshop-clone-that-must-not-be-named: https://github.com/storytold/photocraft/commits/main/

Irrelevant.

Just recently there was a massive kerfuffle in the Minecraft modding community because a mod called Thaumcraft was recreated after it was effectively abandoned for 7 years. The mod's management team threatened copyright legal action.

It's extremely ironic seeing the modding community, which generally play fast and loose with IP rights, all of a sudden care about them when AI made modding trivial.

You can see some of the community responses here, it's hilarious.

https://www.reddit.com/r/feedthememes/comments/1x2gu7j/so_wh...

https://www.reddit.com/r/feedthememes/comments/1x3b5pk/looki...

https://www.reddit.com/r/feedthememes/comments/1x0p9ap/when_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/feedthememes/comments/1x1q6bx/from_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/feedthememes/comments/1x1mqb2/the_c...

https://www.reddit.com/r/feedthememes/comments/1x3v6qw/what_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/feedthememes/comments/1x3kw5r/glad_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/feedthememes/comments/1x2mx4w/reaso...

I have not seen such delicious drama in the Minecraft modding world in years ever since the Forge/Neoforge schism.

Reminds me of Sayre’s law[1], about the politics being vicious because the stakes are so small.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law

I didn't realize that Wadler's Law is just a reformulation of Sayre's Law!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality#Related_prin... directly referenced.

These are hilarious thanks for the rundown

Was that specific mod team playing fast and loose with IP rights? If not, then it’s irrelevant

It's basically "you can't make a mod inspired by the other mod we're hugging the rights for"

Completely missing the part they didn't ask for permission to mod the base game either..... and that Thaumcraft (the original mod) had assets consisting mostly of random images copied off google images. Yes you can't make that up. "You can't steal what I've rightfully stolen!"

I am actually quite curious if the original Thaumcraft mod author Azanor is on HN. I know a lot of the original generation of Minecraft modders (pre twitch, mostly YouTube days, Minecraft modding changed a lot post twitch) are fairly senior software engineers (most famous one is probably Sethbling, though he didn't really do modding).

There's a "Direwolf20" on hacker news too but that user has nothing to do with the famous Minecraft modder afaik.

I mean, the REAL backlash they got was "So, are you going to abandon this on in 72 hours too?" at which point, once again, without fail, they do.

You'll find drama for decomps of games with active projects. Which is why the DK64 styled all over the AI Slop. You find zero drama for those with not. You may find some with translation projects, but most people already figured out you can just give them 0 attention, there are live translation tools (that you can run on dual screen devices even).

And then there's morons like the PSO on the browser who tried adding merch links and got C&D'd within 12 hours.

I'm sorry but isn't this the whole point of free and open source software? We have been saying this for decades.

Maintainers, you don't owe anyone anything. Put your own life and mental health first. Things like we specifically disclaim all liability and that this software is available free of cost with no assumption of ongoing support etc.

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