Bug#1035312: minetest: New upstream version available (5.7.0)

[Jeremy Shannon]

On Thu, 7 Dec 2023 07:02:37 +0100 Tobias Frost <tobi at debian.org> wrote:
 > I guess that complicates things. The change [1] reads to me like it is
 > no longer possible (at the moment) to play the game without the need to
 > download something.

Not true, you don't need to install anything to play on a server. The
engine is literally all you need. Pick a server, register and log in,
and you're playing!

  If you want to play single player, you do need to install a game, but
then the question is: which one? There's no reason Minetest Game should
be treated as first among equals. It's not fair to all the other games
and the people (like me) who've worked so hard on them to push MTG on
new players as if it were the default.

 >This would be a regression IMHO, as well for the
 > user experience as well as for user privacy.

  RE user experience: By itself, Minetest Game is a bad game, it's
not meant to be played on its own, it's designed to be a base for
adding mods, and if you don't have a bunch of mods installed, it gives
the false impression that Minetest is nothing more than an empty,
unfinished Minecraft clone.

  As for privacy, it's true that the community-run Contentdb collects
anonymous usage statistics if you download through the client, but you
can always use a browser like Tor to download games.