Our charter · Draft 0.1 · 17 September 2026
Your work. Your files. Your choice.
Archived working draft. Never adopted. Its original wording is preserved below. Read the current charter.
A place to share your work should earn your trust, not ask you to hand over control. Modpacks.ch exists to help people find, publish and play mods. These are the commitments we want to be held to.
This is our first public draft, not an adopted policy. It sets out what we intend to protect as the service grows. The practical controls available today are explained below and in our creator guide.
01 · Ownership
Publishing here doesn’t make your work ours.
You choose your licence, maintain your repository and publish your releases. We will not demand ownership, an exclusive release, or permission to relicense your work as the price of being listed. We will use project information to help people discover and use your work, with credit and links back to you.
With GitHub publishing, your files live in your GitHub Releases and your settings live in your repository. We read them; we do not need write access to your repository. GitHub is still a separate service with its own terms and availability. We cannot promise control over it.
02 · Distribution
You choose where your releases go.
We will support publishing from GitHub without requiring a CurseForge or Modrinth listing. You can also keep using those services. Choose your preferred verified download destination; other verified copies remain available to players. We will not require exclusivity or force people into our own launcher to reach your download.
We will respect the source’s download rules. We will not quietly replace your chosen file with our own upload or claim a mirror is an author-published release.
03 · Funding
No ad networks. Our own callouts are your choice.
We will not sell third-party ad slots or add ad-network tracking. CreeperHost and MineTogether are services from the people behind this website. A callout for our own work is not an ad-network advert, and it should still be optional on your project pages.
Authors can keep those links in the sidebar, move them to the footer or hide them through their repository settings. That includes partner links to those two services. We will not charge for hiding them, reduce your visibility or change your download options because you do. Other creator-chosen partners and support links remain separate.
04 · Discovery and support
Money won’t buy a better place in the catalogue.
We will not sell ranking, give our hosting customers a ranking advantage or penalise authors for working with someone else. Discovery should help people find relevant work, including new and recently maintained projects.
Your donation and support links go to you. We will not substitute our referral codes or take a cut from those links. Any fees charged by the service you choose are its own.
05 · Leaving
Being useful is how we keep you.
We will keep an author-controlled way to hide a project from the website. Your repository, release files and publishing workflow remain usable without our pages. We will not hold your files hostage, charge an exit fee or demand that you delete your other listings.
Today, "visibility": "hidden" removes a verified project from the website after the setting is processed. It is not a promise to erase upstream records, API records, other sites’ copies or every cache immediately.
06 · Privacy
Players aren’t an advertising audience to sell.
We will not sell personal browsing data or build advertising profiles. Browsing and downloading do not require a Modpacks.ch account. Author registration uses GitHub sign-in to check repository access.
We use our own Matomo service for page visits and link clicks. That is analytics, not a claim that nothing is measured. Local JAR inspection happens in your browser without uploading or running those files. Images and links may connect you to the services that provide them.
07 · Tools and trust
Useful information, without invented certainty.
We will identify sources, keep author declarations distinct from our inferences and say when we don’t know. A compatibility listing is not a guarantee that every combination runs. A shared name is not proof that two downloads are the same file.
We will document our public formats and API so other tools and launchers can use them. We will not make our own website or launcher the only way to use published project data. Service limits and upstream restrictions still apply; access does not grant rights to redistribute someone else’s files.
08 · Accountability
No quiet rewriting of the deal.
Once adopted, we will date and explain changes to this charter, keep previous versions available and announce material changes before they take effect. We will not silently reset an author’s choices to introduce new callouts or downloads.
Author control does not mean we must list harmful files, impersonation or content we cannot lawfully carry. When we restrict a project, we will explain the reason and provide a way to request review, except where law or an active security investigation prevents disclosure. Urgent protective action may come first; an explanation should follow when possible.
Before adoption
A promise needs a way to hold us to it.
This draft still needs a published contact and review process, a charter revision archive, and a defined notice period for material changes. Those are requirements for adopting it, not services we claim to have in place already.