PolyMC Archive

Everything started going big when LennyMcLennington (GitHub) removed the CoC (Code of Conduct) form PolyMC's repo, link, local archive, external archive. He also proceeded to remove people he deemed to be "radical queers" from the GitHub organization and every other place tied to the project he had acces to. The final straw was the moderators adding PluralKit (local archive, external archive) to the Discord. Predictably, this upset a lot of people, some of who raided the Discord and GitHub (opening issues).
The original action was a modification of the CoC, removing specifications about who has to be respected and why, to make it more succinct. Link, local archive, external archive, local screenshot.

Early PolyMC Discord announcements



People spread the roumor that Lenny and/or PolyMC got hacked, and would be used to distribute malware. GT:NH had more integrity.

Lenny posted a GPG signed paste to counter these claims. Link, local archive, external archive.

The Discord got locked up because of the raid, and the expelled people created their own Discord and fork. The project was initially named "PlaceholderMC" and got rebranded to Prism Launcher. Website, archive, early archive where it looks just like PolyMC.
Lenny got suspended from the Arch User Repository (aur). PolyMC got removed from the AUR and flagged as malware (fake CVE's). It also at least happened for Fedora, Gentoo, and NixOS packages. Some of these distros straight up replaced PolyMC with PrismMC.

The kick-out-team disrupted anything they could, including revoking the Microsoft auth token. The CurseForge token was also revoked.

PolyMC got suspended on Open Collective (donations): link, external archive.

Not to be overseen, Lenny and the project got a journalistic treatment by GamingOnLinux (author and site owner: Liam Dawe) [ link | external archive ], PCGAMER (author: Joshua Wolens) [ link | external archive ], IGN (author: Kenneth Shepard) [ link | external archive ], and PCGamesN (author: Jason Coles) [ link | external archive ]. The owner of GamingOnLinux and author of the article, Liam Dawe locked the comments.

X (formerly Twitter):
KingBDogz, a Mojang developer, has also commented on X: link, external archive. Shockbyte, as well: link, external archive. Modrinth xeet: link, external archive.

Reddit:
r/feedthebeast: link, external archive. r/PolyMCLauncher: link, external archive. Open letter to Lenny, from u/Da_Boom: link, archive. The r/PolyMCLauncher sub got privated for a short period of time.

Misc:

The creation of PrismMC did not fly under the radar of Quilt. Gdude, the head janitor of Quilt has appeared in their Discord vc. A Quilt team member, Emmaffle (external archive) joined PrismMC too.

Bonus:
- Gif by some anon.
- The state of mc modding.
- lowpolymc, link, external archive.



Sources include the KiwiFarms Minecraft thread.