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Cute! For some reason the angle of the picture made it look absolutely huge to me at first.
Cute! For some reason the angle of the picture made it look absolutely huge to me at first.
Yeah, it's because Microsoft is forcing your hands and you're getting paid too much to admit it.
And then people wonder why we don’t communicate here.
Looks awesome, well done!
Read moreThank you for dialoguing with the community at all - I myself am not particularly pleased with the state of these changes, but I'm doing my best to understand the position that individual developers are in and communicate my feelings respectfully.
I've read all of Mojang's official posts on the subject and have been seeking to understand the reality of the changes and not just the outraged consensus around them, but one thing that has not, as far as I can tell, been communicated is why, after over a decade of servers operating relatively independently, service-wide bans are something Mojang feels are necessary now. Is that something you feel you can speak to as an individual developer (recognizing that you don't want to over-represent)? I really would love to understand the motivation and timing behind these changes, as I feel that has not been expressed to the community with any level of detail (beyond a broad category of "safety" - which is legitimate in theory b...
No, I’m afraid that really isn’t my area to comment on.
While that is what I already expected to be the case, it is still disappointing to have confirmation that this feature is effectively non-negotiable.
If answering wouldn't be too troublesome, how likely would you say that these changes will be backported to previous versions, or previous versions made unavailable? Before I would have thought it unthinkable for such to happen, but I am not so sure anymore, and if either of those happened it would be catastrophic to the modding community which being a part of has been the main way I've interacted with minecraft for almost a decade now.
We have never made previous versions unavailable before, and the only time changes have been made to existing versions has been to patch a serious security issue. This is simply a new thing being added to the next version, nothing else.
Let me say that I appreciate that you're here responding at all. It's refreshing, after the wall of silence it feels like we've been receiving after the last few prereleases.
One thing I think may help point community in the direction of meaningful discussion is to hear your personal opinion, given your rather informed perspective as Technical Lead on Java Edition, on whether or not you think that there is any appreciable chance the player chat reporting system may be removed or significantly modified based on the current community feedback prior to the full release of 1.19.1.
In my opinion, as one of those members of the community who has been vehemently against this system, a solid "Yes, I personally think it may appreciably change"/"No, I don't personally think it will appreciably change"/"I don't currently know one way or the other"/"I don't feel I can legally give a straightforward answer to this question" could go a ways towards defus...
Well I mean obviously I’m bound by all kinds of contractual requirements so you’re not going to get an unbiased opinion about the system or anything. I do think we’ve seen quite a few changes to the system since the first snapshot, but from my point of view it’s very unlikely that the whole thing would be removed or changed at its core in a way like many people are asking for.
I understand. I'm sorry.
Honest question for you: if that is not "within the sphere of influence of any single developer you interact with here", what's the point of asking for community feedback on the feature?
Feedback can still be collected and reviewed internally. In fact, feedback is often very useful even if no developer replies in the threads.
Do you ever think of WHY your being downvoted so much? Maybe if you just listen to the community and remove the chat reporting system, instead of complaining about how no one is nice to you on reddit anymore, this wouldn't be happening.
Honest question: regardless of who or what their opinion is, do you think it is within the sphere of influence of any single developer you interact with here to make that call?
