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Minetest is an infinite-world block sandbox game and a game engine, inspired by Infiniminer, Minecraft and the like.

The community is about the great and open source sandbox game writed in Lua, Minetest.

Feel free to call players for a multiplayer game or publish your project of a mod and everthing related.

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Minetest: Eventually move [from Github] to a free git platform [GitLab, Gitea, Codeberg]? (github.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"Right now, Minetest, a free software game engine which is also the best free alternative to the well known Minecraft, is hosted on GitHub, a proprietary platform owned by a huge unethical company." (Zughy)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I asked this in the forums a few years ago, back then the most vocal core devs were against it. But git.minetest.net would be such an awesome thing.

They could run an own GitLab instance there and move main development off of the Microsoft service. For backwards compatibility they could mirror the repost to MS GitLab like they do with GitLab.com right now.

In the long term even the CDB could be hosted there.

But two chances to cleanly do the move were missed. First was the release of so-called “Minetest 5.0”, the first release after the 0.x era and the second chance was when lots of other FOSS projects left GitHub when Microsoft bought it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Would love to see it. Been wanting to contribute to Minetest more than once, but that enthusiasm always evaporates when I remember that I'd need to create and keep a GitHub account for it.