Should I update to 1.5 immediately, or should I wait for an announcement or something?
EDIT: 101th Post 
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If you want to play on Aloha, itās still 1.4.7, so donāt update. If you donāt care, update. Also, reguarding the 1.5 update itself, Itās awesome! Iāve tried it out and itās so fun.
When we update the server to 1.5 it will mean weāve fully released the server. Iām not sure on how long it will take for all out plugins to update, but hopefully soon!
I am not gonna play 1.5 much, why? Optifine not on it and none of my favorite servers run it (besides the ShotBow network).
Yes Optifine is on it. Obviously not many servers are running it because Bukkit hasnāt updated yet.
Iāve been curious. Whatās the difference between Optifine Ultra, Standard, and Light? They only have ultra for 1.5 as of right now.
I think Ultra is the combo of all of them or something,
Standard is like the basic-ish one, without multi-core, AA, or anything else
and Light is a stripped down version of standard, with even less options?
And of course I would expect Ultra to āgiveā more FPS than standard or light.
Source: Off the top and somewhere on the left of my head
Iām afraid to say youāre incorrect.
Optifine Ultra has multicore chunk loading, AA and Antisoptric filtering for Minecraft. Basically itās much laggier than say Optifine or Optifine light but it looks nicer and still runs better than vanilla Minecraft (most of the time).
Optifine Standard is just your standard Optifine. It improves FPS and provides support for HD Texture Packs/Random Mobs/A ton of other things.
Optifine Light is a very stripped down version of Standard, it improves FPS to the max. In fact, I would many times get in excess of 80 FPS when using it. It doesnāt have zoom, and doesnāt support HD Textures. Nor does it support Forge/Modloader/Any other mods. This is really only useful for very old computers.
On the topic of multicore loading for Optifine, Iāve always wondered if they meant logical or physical cores. Anyone know what should I do for 1 physical core hyperthreaded as 2 logical ones?
It uses logical cores, but I donāt see the point of making 1 physical core 2 logical cores. It still works just as fast.
seems like it was the opposite of what i saidā¦ lol i feel like a fail newbā¦ but then again i AM a newb
gonna try light right now to see the effects 
EDIT: Once light edition comes out anyways
Anyway, Iāve been testing the 1.5 beta version. Pretty buggy so far, so much for a Friday release. Maybe next Friday.
Update it, donāt update it, it doesnāt matter because you can always downgrade by getting the 1.4.7 jar, then upgrade by going to the [option] button on the launcher/login page. Click force update to go back to 1.5.
For some reason with 1.5 there is a type of lag Iāve never seen before where when I place a block, itāll register itās there (Itās invisible) but it will actually take a few seconds before it appears.
1.x releases are hilariously buggy until ~1.x.3 or so, so Iād be surprised if our serverās gonna be up any time soon.
Yaāll most wish they wouldnāt release them 
To be honest, I think 1.2.5 was the most āsuccessfulā update, but 1.4.7 was pretty good as well.
1.7.3 beta, the best release ever.
We will wait for 1.5.1, 1.5 has far to many bugs.
About how many years ago was 1.7.3 beta?
Sadly, the magic of minecraft with my buddies kinda faded shortly before the nether was SMPādā¦I recall the funtimes me and two friends had establishing a base of operations and scrambling for food the first few days.