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Currently /ii, the primary method (as far as I am aware) for players to edit items ingame without mods only supports minimessage. This is an issue as minimessage, for the most part, is just a longer version of & color codes. Creating custom items already sometimes can hit the chat limit without minimessage, and as far as I know there is no reason to decrease how much you can write.
tldr minimessage only good for gradients (and rainbow if you like that) in /ii, color codes are insanely better for literally anything else including speed. chat is not notepad++, you do not need to write in html in it
let me know if i missed anything
Pros of MiniMessage:
-Gradients are much faster.
-Can do rainbow if you want that
Cons of MiniMessage:
-Extremely inefficient/slow:
Instead of writing &6, you write <gold>. This is 4 more letters you can no longer use on your item lore. Instead of writing &e, you write <yellow>. This is 6 more letters you can no longer use on your item lore. Instead of writing &3, I don't even know what you write because of my next point:
-Lack of easily accessible documentation:
With color codes you have them ingame with /einfo colors, on multiple websites, and (I really feel old now) some people such as me have EIGHT YEARS OF EXPERIENCE yikes im old
I had to search not "minimessage" not "minimessage minecraft" but "minimessage minecraft plugin" to find something that wasn't giving me a bad feeling/a sus link. Even then I ended up on minimessage: https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/minimessages.89382/
wait a minute, that isn't minimessage! Even on the main post it doesn't have any links to documentation I could easily find. There was apparently a document, however I was unable to find it.
-Gradients are much faster.
-Can do rainbow if you want that
Cons of MiniMessage:
-Extremely inefficient/slow:
Instead of writing &6, you write <gold>. This is 4 more letters you can no longer use on your item lore. Instead of writing &e, you write <yellow>. This is 6 more letters you can no longer use on your item lore. Instead of writing &3, I don't even know what you write because of my next point:
-Lack of easily accessible documentation:
With color codes you have them ingame with /einfo colors, on multiple websites, and (I really feel old now) some people such as me have EIGHT YEARS OF EXPERIENCE yikes im old
I had to search not "minimessage" not "minimessage minecraft" but "minimessage minecraft plugin" to find something that wasn't giving me a bad feeling/a sus link. Even then I ended up on minimessage: https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/minimessages.89382/
wait a minute, that isn't minimessage! Even on the main post it doesn't have any links to documentation I could easily find. There was apparently a document, however I was unable to find it.
tldr minimessage only good for gradients (and rainbow if you like that) in /ii, color codes are insanely better for literally anything else including speed. chat is not notepad++, you do not need to write in html in it
let me know if i missed anything
