also also also: what if i wanted to create my own fork? like, if i just wanted to make my own version with my own features? or to try and contribute improvements to existing features? or even if this was to go the way of blockland and stop being actively maintained, with developers who are difficult to reach or else? i don't see any particular reason to be hostile over even the prospect of it being open source, manteuro
This. The whole community would benefit from it being open source. I don't understand why the Rebuilt team necessitates that feature requests go through them, as if they made it open source people would be able to create those features themselves and submit them as pull requests.
This would completely open up what the game can do, and issues such as the game running on ancient engine code would no longer be an issue.
It would also null any doubt that Rebuilt doesn't have any malicious code too, of course.
soldier is the person who has no experience with computer security thinks hes smarter at identifying what really is or isnt a problem than people with actual experience
the difference here is its going to be a lot harder to hold clay hanson/kenko/etc accountable if there is an actual backdoor in their software compared to a person who has to give up anonymity to publish their software on a public, managed marketplace to ensure if there are issues they can be held accountable
I don't think accountability is the main issue here. Personally, I'm not going to blindly trust and run any opaque application from this community because of its history of putting backdoors in add-ons and third-party applications.
Conan why so hurtful? Are the mountains of evidence not enough for you?
I would hardly consider a small handful of antivirus detentions as absolute evidence that Rebuilt has anything malicious in it.
Looking at the VirusTotal results I'm guessing the ones that detect anything think it might be a keylogger. Considering how easy it would be for a naïve developer to implement keyboard input that
could raise alarms versus
one that doesn't, I wouldn't be too surprised if this was the reason. That's just my theory though.
If this is true, it would still bring in the question why these detections would have disappeared after an update, and why they were there to begin with if the vanilla version of the base game did not have these- as either implementation isn't something you can just mistakenly arrive to during decompilation.
Why we're 10 pages into this thread and nobody has bothered to run Rebuilt in its entirety in VirusTotal's sandbox is beyond me. I would do it myself but I do not have the one that tripped virus scanners on me.
