Editing Minecraft Beta pre-1.8's lack of authentication (section)

==Community response==

===Securely fixing the game client===
On November 2nd, 2021 user named "craftycodie" has [https://github.com/Mojang/LegacyLauncher/pull/33 made a pull request] on Mojang's GitHub repository, [https://github.com/Mojang/LegacyLauncher/ LegacyLauncher], which is Mojang's way of running older versions of Minecraft in the modern launcher, that's capable of modifying the game's behaviour - it fixes issues and incompatibilities that had appeared over time without having to re-release older versions of the game. The pull request made by "craftycodie" fixes several issues, including authentication support. It's using Mojang's latest authentication methods (only in versions older than Beta 1.8 as of now, with a suggestion of improvement), which are way more secure in comparison to the no longer working approach. Mojang has never accepted nor responded to the pull request, despite it having 30 reactions, 28 approves and 27 comments from the GitHub community.

===Securely fixing the game server===
Released on October 1st, 2020 by user named "craftycodie", [https://github.com/craftycodie/OnlineModeFix OnlineModeFix] is one of the ways of fixing the authentication issue for Minecraft servers. While Mojang doesn't need to patch it, because it's easy for server owners to fix the authentication method by themselves, they didn't release any fixed server files, nor solutions to the problem.