ThePaul-T
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1 week ago We want to do away with the flow entirely, so that is why we've not done this yet. With MS auth being a thing now, an oauth flow to pair your account is possible.
If we don't think we can get it done in the next month or so, I'll likely take your suggestion instead as a short-term stopgap.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I'm always frustrated when people don't understand that they need to connect to mc.auth.minetogether.io via their MineCraft client, and instead browse to it using a web browser, end up confused, and whatnot.
Describe the solution you'd like
Setting up whatever server is hosting mc.auth.minetogether.io to forward all connection requests for port 80 and 443 (or maybe any port besides 25565 just to be safe?) over to "https://www.creeperhost.net/wiki/books/minetogether/page/linking-your-minecraft-account" would likely drastically assist with this problem. It wouldn't solve all of the issues because endusers are endusers of course, but it would likely be a really straightforward way to help.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Telling people to go to mc.auth.minetogether.io via MineCraft is the current meta, and an acceptable meta but this would be a hopefully simple way to augment that.
Additional context
Not sure if there may be a reason that whatever server is handling mc.auth.minetogether.io cannot handle HTTP(s) redirects, but that could be solved via a SVR DNS record I believe and minetogether.io is already on CloudFlare so minimal issues there. Can't think of any other complicates but surely some are still hidden in the cobblestone and would only turn out to be silverfish when mined.