The original fork was primarily a result of continuing disagreements between a portion of the community, and MultiMC's lead maintainer, mainly surrounding the topics of 3rd party packaging and re-distribution. Many users of the time, especially across Linux, and other Unix-like platforms, were left dissatisfied by MultiMC's policy of restricting self-built packages, by not allowing the launcher to build with the necessary API keys for the successful authentication of Microsoft Accounts.