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Howdy, folks - we've got a fairly important announcement to make today. As of now, we are delaying all plans to update to 1.19 until further notice. We do hope to update at some point down the line, but there are some features that 1.19 (and moreso 1.19.1) appear to be implementing that we feel could end up doing serious damage to the Minecraft community as a whole. Chat Signing and Player Reporting As of 1.19.1 Pre-Release 1, chat messages on servers can be reported to Mojang for a number of reasons. Some of them are completely reasonable, others are borderline, and some yet are downright unacceptable. This situation is still developing and Mojang has recently started to make some adjustments - so there is some hope - but the system itself is still deeply concerning. You might be wondering - what happens if a player gets reported? Well, if Mojang decides the report is valid, the player reported will face a temporary or even permanent ban from multiplayer and Realms. Yes, you read that right - a player could be reported for a chat message and potentially be given a permanent ban from the entirety of Minecraft multiplayer. This is not a joke, and is not an exaggeration - this is a real feature that, as of writing, is planned for 1.19.1. The initial 1.19 update introduces part of this feature, which is chat message signing and a profanity filter toggle. We don't know where this feature is going, but with the nature of our server being largely geared towards a more adult audience, we feel that updating at this time could be a risk not just to our server, but to anyone who plays on it. Options - or Lack Thereof With this feature, we felt as though we effectively had two options: Stay on 1.18.2 for the foreseeable future, until when/if the reporting feature is removed, allowed to be opted out of by server administrators, or scaled back to where it wouldn't impact us Update to 1.19/1.19.1 and disallow all mature subject matter in server chat, including forbidding all sexual-related topics from discussion outright and the complete banning of swear words on the server As you might guess, that second option is not very desirable. We've allowed most server chat outside of racial slurs and actual outright harassment since 2014 - and we really don't want to change that. Not only that, but we suspect you guys wouldn't enjoy that very much, either. So, as of now - we've made the decision to remain on 1.18.2 for a period of time to see where this situation goes. We want to see where this feature develops, if any opt-outs are made available, and if they start to overreach their enforcement after some time. Our hope is that this won't be a permanent thing, and that Mojang will continue their trend of listening to their community and come up with a viable solution for adult servers - but we can't know for sure just yet. That, and this feature feels as though it's likely come down from Microsoft as opposed to Mojang themselves. We will continue developing features and fixing bugs for the server as planned - and we'll be sure to post an additional update as soon as we know what the long-term plan is going to be. But for now, that's all we've got. Stay tuned for future updates, on both this situation, as well as for those previously-mentioned new features and fixes!
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I was banned, I understand my consequences & I've learned now from them since I'm a teenager now. I am sorry for Illegally breaking rules, that I've should not broken or talked about it. Sorry CU PLATFORM Lovely -TSNNinkago1 (ign)