Originally Posted by
heliophobicdude
I'm tempted to ask Forkk (author of MultiMC) to create a platform within multimc to handle mod updates, but here's the catch, every update have compatibility information get fed into a system to see if the update is compatible with the current instance of mods.
Also, have a portal through which mod authors can have their base of all updates. Somewhat like how it is now for forge versions within MultiMC.
Obviously that doesn't sound hot at all to mod authors that want the revenue generated by their traditional method of adf.ly. But what Forkk can add is a mini browser that pops up for every update and waits the usual 5 seconds to skip the add to download, but MultiMC handles this. All the user has to do is select what version of a mod with compatibility info not conflicting with any of the present mods in the instance, then have multimc launch the mini web browser page and wait for the user to hit the "5 second SKIP button". All having multimc process the download.
As far as I'm concerned, the mod author can generate more revenue by the updates within the system because of the user being able to easily do this. Compared to the user never doing this but once to create the instance; being afraid of compatibility and other hassles of installing the mod.