Luanti 5.15.1

[ArceusI]

Well, there are cases where updates are good, but because of the general deterioration of services, it's making me begin to shift away from updates because something could go wrong again.

Any advanced graphics features added are pretty much always optional and will not be enforced. They are usually also far outnumbered by general improvements to the engine that fix performance issues for all users, no matter how low powered or high powered their devices are.

The graphical issues you encountered and caused a huge stir about here and on the F-Droid forums were thankfully reported properly by other users who were willing to make a proper bug report with actual details about their setup, which allowed the devs to verify the bug. The bug was then resolved (at least in stopgap way) very quickly, resulting in this version.

I think you might still need to learn how to contextualise things and figure out how to express things less dramatically. Your wording above, "a general deterioration of services" also makes it sound like Luanti is something you pay for, like car insurance or a streaming service. It's a free, open source project created by volunteers that spend lots of their free time to make it the great project it is, without you giving anything at all in return. The least you could do is show some gratitude, patience and willingness to be a good community member.

You are of course welcome to stay on version 5.15.1 forever and never update again.

Well, paid services are seriously falling apart, but even free services are going to inevitably get impacted.

[ShallowDweller]

This is very off-topic now and you shouldn't ask these things in a news topic. If you have anything further on this, you should open a new topic either in General Discussion or Problems.
Indexed textures are used for better compression, though different projects will have different agreements on how to store image data and it's totally fine. It's also totally fine to switch from indexed mode to RGB, the only concern is that, as it is with any and all editing of textures, whatever you export via your image editor is going to be essentially uncompressed, and you'll have to run the image compression script before i.e. sending your texture changes to be reviewed and maybe merged into the engine.

Sorry for mistaking a question about the engine's design choices and asking related questions for something on-topic for an update thread.
Thanks for answering my question by the way. And before you ask: no, I'm NOT being sarcastic or passive-agressive.

Well, there are cases where updates are good, but because of the general deterioration of services, it's making me begin to shift away from updates because something could go wrong again.

Any advanced graphics features added are pretty much always optional and will not be enforced. They are usually also far outnumbered by general improvements to the engine that fix performance issues for all users, no matter how low powered or high powered their devices are.

The graphical issues you encountered and caused a huge stir about here and on the F-Droid forums were thankfully reported properly by other users who were willing to make a proper bug report with actual details about their setup, which allowed the devs to verify the bug. The bug was then resolved (at least in stopgap way) very quickly, resulting in this version.

I think you might still need to learn how to contextualise things and figure out how to express things less dramatically. Your wording above, "a general deterioration of services" also makes it sound like Luanti is something you pay for, like car insurance or a streaming service. It's a free, open source project created by volunteers that spend lots of their free time to make it the great project it is, without you giving anything at all in return. The least you could do is show some gratitude, patience and willingness to be a good community member.

You are of course welcome to stay on version 5.15.1 forever and never update again.

I have reasons to believe ArceusI lacks the tech literacy to provide the information developers need from them. Some tech iliterate people can be really frustrating to deal with and guide through troubleshooting as they don't even know what is the difference between MS Windows and a computer. I think that's why some software bug reporting forums have a report template that demands certain pieces of information in an "X or Y?" format, as that forces the person reporting the bug to go figure out what their <insert type of data here> is.

I could be wrong (I haven't seen what they did in the F-droid forums after all), but I want to give people the benefit of doubt, specially when they get accused of hating updates over a genuine concern raised by an issue caused after an update, even if updates causing issues is rare for software with a competent team like Luanti's.

EDIT: I forgot what the rules for double-posting are, so I'll say it here instead of double-posting:
The uptade made it to flatpack today (Tue Feb 17)! Thanks devs!

[Loerina]

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[silverfang789]

Loving the new EXE install! This'll make updating so much easier without having to copy folders between portables. TYSM!