A non-exhaustive list of projects to be known to have rather unpleasant vibes.
- Yatopia, "The combined power of Paper forks for maximum instability and unmaintainablity!" - Messy, tossed salad of people that haven't even really understood the patch system.
- SkinsRestorer, "
System.out.println("[SkinsRestorer] "),try {} catch (Exception e) {}" - The cleanest code it has comes from one-time contributors. - FlameCord, "Are you sick of using sane, open-source software? Try this MC-market Travertine fork!" - While it has some nice workarounds to vulnerabilities, it's done on the wrong layer and contains some rather weird changes as well.
- EntityTrackerFixer, "Minecraft tracks alot of entities - so let's disable that, who needs entities to work as intended anyway ;^)" - Just use Paper, please. It fixes the issue without producing even more problems.
- Literally any closed-source (paid) 1.8 Paper fork on mcmarket, "[Optimized] [Cannons] [Everything is multithreaded]" - Mostly just copied off each other with little to no actual work involved or improvements done, with many even introducing major bugs or including security breaches.
- Kangarko, "Become self-hated now" - Offers overprized Spigot/Java courses (use JetBrains Academy instead), uses every place humanly possible to advertise his service, and likes to silently push blame towards other people.
- Spartan, "A premium product with setting your server on fire in mind, made by ad spammers" - Checks are largely bypassable and the plugin page has such awesome quotes as "A Minecraft server uses just one CPU core".
- ClearLagg, "Use one of ClearLagg's many utilities to make lag" - Causes more lag than it removes and doesn't even know its own name.
- CMI, "Over 280 must have bugs for your server!" - A (non-)substitute for EssentialsX, but it doesn't patch bugs.
- Songoda, "The one top sketchy marketplace for Minecraft plugins" - The plugins are oof and Songoda as a business has engaged in sketchy practices.
- NeruxVace, "Money ain't got wings!" - Small german minigames network that won't let anything stand in the way of its urge for "success". Whether it's paying developers, or simply following up on (legal-)agreements - Noah Kemm doesn't give a damn.
- 1.8, "An outdated version of Minecraft with mindless pvp" - Hasn't been updated in 5 years.
- ViaVersion "1.8-1.16 KitPVP" - Enables servers to stay on unsupported versions of Minecraft while allowing newer versions to join. Not a bad plugin, but used as a tool for evil.
- ProtocolSupport - Like ViaBackwards, just with more evil.
- Slimefun "It offers everything you could possibly imagine. From taking 70% of your tick to clearing inventories at random!" - Tries to turn your server in an FTB modpack, and does not achieve its goal due to developers not knowing what they are doing.
- FastAsyncWorldEdit "It's async, so that means it's better!" - Aims to be a fast fork of WorldEdit, it sure is fast, fast at breaking things.
- IllegalStack "Dupe & Exploit fixer" - Actually introduces dupes, eats 15% of your ticks, and likes to do wonky things like removing nametags of players and entities.
This list does not mean you must not use any of the above mentioned, or that any of them are truly horrible, but just that some random person on the internet considers some of their (design) choices questionable. Take it lightly and please correct any plainly wrong information. :) Have a nice day, k thx bai.