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Luparax
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Today I downloaded the new Curse launcher. And I was confused to say the least. I searched a bit for feedback on the new launcher but couldn't find any that were relevant to my problems, so here are my two cents.
First off, there is no way to set the installation location of the curse launcher. Which means another program fills up that sweet but small SSD instead of the 3TB disk dedicated to that kind of data. Since quite a lot of people (including about 50 people from my friends list after a quick strawpoll we did a couple months ago) use the SSD/Hard Drive setup this is really inconvenient. It's not a lot of data, but I'd still like it to be on my dedicated hard drive.
Secondly, the launcher actively tells you "Invalid password" if you enter an invalid password but the email address/username was correct. As the average user, I didn't think any of it. As a programmer for a company that creates mobile apps, I was shocked. There is a reason most launchers don't do that and that is because it gives hackers an easy way to check if email addresses are in use. A more generic "login failed" or "Invalid Username/Password" does convey far less information to people who have no valid account, or try to login into an account that does not belong to them.
Thirdly, where did the server download button for minecraft go? The links still work in the FTB launcher, even for newer versions of the mod packs/server. And there is no download button on the curse forge page for mod packs either, at least not one that I understand to be for servers. If I have to start both launchers to play with my friends (one to set up the server and one to start the actual game) I might as well just use the old one.
That was just some thoughts I had on the new launcher and since this forum is titled "Launcher Feedback" I thought I'd put it here.
First off, there is no way to set the installation location of the curse launcher. Which means another program fills up that sweet but small SSD instead of the 3TB disk dedicated to that kind of data. Since quite a lot of people (including about 50 people from my friends list after a quick strawpoll we did a couple months ago) use the SSD/Hard Drive setup this is really inconvenient. It's not a lot of data, but I'd still like it to be on my dedicated hard drive.
Secondly, the launcher actively tells you "Invalid password" if you enter an invalid password but the email address/username was correct. As the average user, I didn't think any of it. As a programmer for a company that creates mobile apps, I was shocked. There is a reason most launchers don't do that and that is because it gives hackers an easy way to check if email addresses are in use. A more generic "login failed" or "Invalid Username/Password" does convey far less information to people who have no valid account, or try to login into an account that does not belong to them.
Thirdly, where did the server download button for minecraft go? The links still work in the FTB launcher, even for newer versions of the mod packs/server. And there is no download button on the curse forge page for mod packs either, at least not one that I understand to be for servers. If I have to start both launchers to play with my friends (one to set up the server and one to start the actual game) I might as well just use the old one.
That was just some thoughts I had on the new launcher and since this forum is titled "Launcher Feedback" I thought I'd put it here.
