FTB-App VS PolyMC

Several users (myself included) are experiencing problems with FTB erroring out when trying to launch an existing modpack or downloading a new one, as evidenced by the last few issues raised on Github. It doesn't look like any of the devs have commented on any of the issues yet, and the only suggestion from other users has been to disable any antivirus software, including Windows Defender, which seems like a terrible idea.

After a certain date(don't know exactly when, although more than a year ago) All FTB modpacks are no longer published or maintained on Curseforge, they are now in the FTB App https://feed-the-beast.com/app and can also be downloaded from launchers with FTB support

After a certain time all FTB packs are no longer published or updated on curseforge, They are all now in the FTB App

Unfortunately, while it's planned, it's not available yet.

I wish i knew what caused that. you could also ask here as well https://github.com/FTBTeam/FTB-App/issues

Feed The Beast Official Launcher FTB modpacks are no longer updated or published on Curseforge

No, not really. No one was in charge at the beginning. It was a community project with multiple people having the administrative role at the same time. LennyMcLennington was one of the contributers, but not really an important one. But he removed the administrative rights from the actually important people. Devs like flowln and Scrumplex played a much bigger role. Even after half a year being the only developer at the PolyMC-Project Lenny still heasn't caught up with what other conributers had done in a few months before. See: https://github.com/PolyMC/PolyMC/graphs/contributors

Could I suggest trying a different launcher such as PolyMC? You can get this on deck in Linux linkand sign into your microsoft account to access Java. This version also has the benefit of you being able to get modpacks.

It's still open source, the repo hasn't moved. https://github.com/PolyMC/PolyMC/

The issue is: the main developer freaked out, made a post ranting about political bs, kicked everyone from the GitHub project and now it's been 2 months since it hasn't been updated. The developers who used to contribute to "PolyMC" moved from the "PolyMC" project to the "PrismLauncher" one after the drama.

There was no prompting or provocation towards lenny at all. The code of conduct existed for ages before lenny deleted it on oct 17 2022: https://github.com/PolyMC/PolyMC/commits/358f080c76dbdfc65f32e08448a5e38b78d2bab0/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

PolyMC: https://polymc.org/

for polymc literally yes git commit (got deleted but title is there)

First, it's gio that handles trash in SteamOS. Second, after digging into PolyMC's code, it also leverages trash. Was added roughly 7 months ago in this commit: https://github.com/PolyMC/PolyMC/commit/02f30de1c11fa53e61c199032a3280afe618e3b2