Doom and Quake mods existed in a world before sketchy download sites. And today, most Doom and Quake mods seem to be hosted on websites dedicated to either jus

Doom and Quake mods existed in a world before sketchy download sites. And today, most Doom and Quake mods seem to be hosted on websites dedicated to either just those games or mods in general (and I say this having spent some of this past weekend revisiting Quake and Doom mods). Minecraft modding seems to be centered around a third-party controlled forum with ad-interstitial links to pay-per-impression downloads from some sketchy file hosts. The whole thing is super sketchy. And the fact that you're basically patching in compiled code (that can do bad things to your system, as there is no limited API or scope-limited runtime like in Quake and Doom modding) makes it really, really scary to get those mods running.