Especially nice with their open source focus on the app and the platform itself. It's good to see Modrinth keep expanding, as it's a great platform for Minecraft modding and much more user and developer friendly. There's more so read about it in their blog post. They also stopped entirely relying on GitHub for authentication and so you can now use Discord, Microsoft, Google, Steam, and/or GitLab or just stick with normal username / password to login. So they've put up in-house authentication, two-factor authentication, and scoped personal access tokens. Some of the other work they've been doing recently includes boosting up their security, especially after the big modding incident recently where a bunch of mods on other modding platforms were compromised. Fully open-source under the GNU GPLv3 license.Performance through the roof, backed by Rust and Tauri (not Electron!).An interactive tutorial to show you through the core features of the app.An auto-updater to ensure the app is always up-to-date.The ability to view and share current and historical logs.The ability to run different modded instances in parallel.

The ability to update, add, and remove individual mods in a modpack.

Importing of instances from a variety of different launchers, including MultiMC, GDLauncher, ATLauncher, CurseForge, and Prism Launcher.

mrpack format to upload to the website or share with friends.

Modrinth modpack importing, either through the website or through a.

Full support for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Full support for vanilla, Forge, Fabric, and Quilt.

It all seems very professional and much sleeker than any other launcher I've used so far. I especially liked the walk-through it did when first loading in, guiding you through the Minecraft login, a login to their website and then it talks you through how to use the launcher. Pictured - Modrinth App on Linux, click pictures to enlarge. Their team say they are try to change the modded Minecraft landscape with it.

Now available for more people to test, with more features and bug fixes the Modrinth launcher for Minecraft is now in Beta.

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