They deliberately removed code search for not logged in users almost immediately. Just recently they removed cloning without an account, so now updating my computer requires signing in to github.

They have been awful stewards.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 55 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If with "good care" you mean "the core functionality is up and running most times", yes

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My parents took good care of me, then.

[–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Please take better care of yourself than your parents did! You deserve to feel taken care of <3

[–] cuteness@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Better than Github did pre acquisition, and we actually got new features after years of stagnation. I don’t know what they changed but at least the product moved forward in some way.

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

... Didn't they revoke the Minecraft licenses people purchased because they didn't manage to migrate their Mojang accounts to Microsoft accounts in a short amount of time?

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People were given three years to migrate, I wouldn't quite call that short

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 13 points 1 day ago

People have absolutely taken a multi-year break from Minecraft before.

Really though, why is there a time limit at all? Google still allows you to convert old Youtube accounts to Google accounts, why can't Microsoft do the same?

[–] Hasherm0n@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Lost access to my OG account because I didn't find out about this until a month after it was too late.

[–] 10OhmResistor@aussie.zone 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

On top of that, even if you did manage to migrate your account, the M$ Minecraft accounts get deleted without warning after some time (2 years?) of inactivity. Guess how I found that out.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The MS or MC account?
Because my MC account is very dead, while my MS is semi active.

Edit: (Dead meaning not deactivated)

[–] luciole@beehaw.org 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I haven’t played Minecraft for a while, but I was under the impression that Microsoft was progressively turning the Bedrock version into a microtransaction hellscape. If I’d have to reluctantly commend Microsoft for anything, I’d rather go for Visual Studio Code.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

The bedrock version is bad, but they have recently given everyone that owned one version of the game the other version for free and now sell both versions of the game for the price of one

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 4 points 1 day ago

Oh, yeah bedrock sucks. Java edition is still great though. And yes, VSCode is good as well.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Bedrock indeed, but you didn't even have Bedrock edition before Microsoft, so you can't really say MS fucked it over since it was always kinda bad. Java has been pretty nice and the "big content updates" direction under Microsoft really rejuvenated the game.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago

It's nice that they brought Minecraft to practically every device. It sucks that they didn't replicate redstone

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Thats because Microsoft has refused to change anything meaningful, there are new mobs but they dont drop anything of value and there are new biomes but the blocks are all decorative. Microsoft knows they'll screw it up so they only make surface level changes.

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, Minecraft fans will tell you just how much they love their handling of it...

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 3 points 1 day ago

As a Minecraft player, as long as they leave java edition alone I'm fine with it.