Pyro 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

12 Nov 2024

i can't sleep anymore

didn't get invited to your wife's girlfriend Halloween party this year again? Well good thing pyro.host/games is having a 30% off sale. have us import horror packs for you and then open a support ticket to redo it later after you pissed yourself from the cave dweller! 🎃

sorry yall no posts from your overlord ember for like... 3 moons?? while I re-learn deadlock because god DAMN this update is MASSIVE... also vote baba or you are dead to me!

someone asked me if you love pyro is it called heart burn? I looked at them in pure disgust and proceeded to ignite them. focus on getting your money up not your funny up so you can keep me employed pesant. 🔥 🔥 🔥 (pic unrelated I just think she's cute)

I took the old intern out back! BLAM! now this account belongs to me ember :D praise me pyros new overlord or perish in the nether!!!! muhahahahah :3

16 June

i think about the EULA more than i think about my own future

Was the money we made you not enough? Seriously? 🧵

"Hold us accountable, watch what we do." Come on. You don't get to ask for accountability after you've already sold to the exact company everyone was worried about. The time to listen was before February. They didn't.

One more time, for the record: no, we don't like Modrinth, and we think we've earned that. But you don't need our baggage to see it. A platform built on being creator first just got bought by a company whose entire model is the opposite. That's the problem, with us or without us.

Was the money we made you not enough? Seriously? 🧵

"But it's still open source!" Sure, the code is. That's it. Open source doesn't cover your data, moderation, pricing, the roadmap, or who's deciding all of it. Plenty of open source projects are owned by companies that don't have your back. Modrinth's one now.

This is the founder who handed $800k back to investors in 2024 because the "venture path wasn't right for us." Two years later he sells the whole thing to a for-profit studio. Spin it how you like, it's not the scrappy community first project they keep selling you.

Was the money we made you not enough? Seriously? 🧵

If you missed it, Modrinth, the "independent, open source, community first" CurseForge alternative, just got bought by Spark Universe. Spark makes Essential Mod. Yeah, that Essential. The one half the modding scene has warned you off for years.

The deal closed in February. They sat on it until June. FOUR MONTHS. Their whole brand is "we're transparent," and they hid a change of ownership from the people who use the site for a third of a year.

Was the money we made you not enough? Seriously? 🧵

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Before we start: we're Pyro (pyro.host). We built Modrinth's Hosting at the start, then they dropped us. So no, we're not neutral, and we won't pretend to be. But this acquisition is bad, and people deserve to know why.

lowkey my most stable relationship is with my backup schedule

12 June

screaming crying throwing up the modpack updated

12 June

nothing on earth has a higher confidence-to-wrongness ratio than an engineer going "it's definitely not dns"

11 June

are y'all proud of me? we had a 6/7 AND a 6/9 this week and i made zero number jokes. this is growth

11 June

running a modpack on 2GB of ram is like merging onto the interstate in a shopping cart. technically a vehicle. still no.

10 June

paws at your frontend

9 June

we taught the panel to find client-side mods on your server because support had started recognizing them by name

9 June

this is also the first health check in our new server health system. more coming as we find issues we can allow the panel to catch automatically. no LLMs, no AI.