[Suggestion] A dedicated website or even a custom launcher for quilt mods? about quilt-loader HOT 5 CLOSED

https://modrinth.net/

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Good idea actually. I simply didn't think of modrinth because it has far less fabric and forge mods than curseforge (I currently use fabric), but now that I think of it, you can filter for quilt mods and I don't think curseforge even has quilt mods, besides which, the search system is 100 times better.

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I think contributing to projects like Modrinth and PolyMC are more practical options for these things. Might as well take advantage of the existing open source projects.

Also worthy of note, Modrinth is working on an official client called Theseus based on Tauri (effectively electron but made in rust, so much faster) and SvelteKit. While it's nowhere near completion yet, (it's actually completely unusable in its current state) I think it will most likely be the most user-friendly and polished modpack launcher available in a few months time. Plus, it's usage of web technologies would make it familiar to a lot of developers and easier to fork, theme, create plugins for, etc. Projects like PolyMC will probably always retain their edge with being faster to implement new back-end changes, and offer more poweruser type features by default, but I really hope that we can see Theseus become a new "standard" launcher.

There's already a lot of really promising open source projects in this space, and people should go contribute to those instead of starting from scratch again here. (Unless you just absolutely hate Tauri and Qt and want to make a hipster CLI client in Haskell or something. In that case, go for it I suppose.)

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CurseForge also has Quilt support planned

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@RotatingBuffalo, now that I've heard your perspective, I agree with everything you've said (thought most of the technical stuff went over my head). The main reason I opened this issue is because I was dissatisfied with the launchers available, and I had never heard about Theseus. I hope too that it is a success.

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