gnawmonThe oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft
qazI’ve been playing on this server for several years and have posted about it on here before. They have no claims system but do have a strong anti-griefing policy that allows builds from more than a decade ago to remain untouched (map). You can go exploring, and you will find builds from 2010 and new builds from a couple of months ago. It’s pretty cool seeing how building styles developed from back in Minecraft Alpha to now.
The “free speech” chat policy isn’t entirely unrestricted. The servers are hosted at Hetzner in Germany and are therefore bound to their laws. This means things such as swastikas are not allowed (neither as builds nor in chat). There have been cases where people use the n- or f-word, but it’s not common, and will not be appreciated by most players.
The owner (SlowRiot) is an interesting character. He runs a game studio and is a former director of Mensa UK with whom he had a legal fight a couple years back. He is not that active but checks on the server every so often. (SlowRiot’s MCO wiki page)
The server has been having several technical issues for a while. It is still stuck on version 1.12.2. It has various custom Sponge plugins which are still being ported over. Furthermore, it also has issues with lag, comparable to a heavily modded minecraft server.
EDIT: This is the mail in question
And the followup mails
You can click on it to zoom in. I don’t think I can change the size it renders as by default.
Accessibility means text: some people can’t read images of text.
Text is a better technology for text content: reflowable to varied screen sizes, adaptable to different renderings & sizes for those with dyslexia or vision issues, multimodal (can be read by computer, rendered in braille, etc), searchable & indexable by semantic content.
An image of text does none of that.