Jhoryn

Howdy. I'm a quiet lurker and been reading everything in the hopes of reassurances, and understand a lot of the anger comes from the lack of clarity and loss of trust. Please note, the following is questioning the code/mod itself and not Mal/the mod dev. I won't attack a person I don't know and have never interacted with. Bold is for TLDR From a User/Player standpoint, the two biggest questions needing reassurance are 1. Is ConfigLib safe to use in its current version? This event is a reminder that mods are code, and that code is shared on a basis of mutual trust. We players trust the mods to do exactly what they say they do and nothing more. Right now, that trust is shaky at best. In hindsight, Mal should have released the Anti-Cheat as a stand-alone download option. Let servers choose to use it, and it probably would've been as popular as the other mods. But, because that's not what happened here, people are understandably upset that a mod did way more than what they were told it did. Now, the safety of the code is being questioned. Can we trust a mod's code to do what it says it does? 2. If ConfigLib is safe, should we still use it, or should a new branch under new ownership be created? Because ConfigLib (and the other mods) have become such a core feature of other mods, it can't simply be removed without adversely affecting other mod devs who have come to rely on it. It is, or was, a well built, useful mod. But, because trust has been lost, should a new forced branch of these questioned mods be created?