srs

I cannot agree with this anymore. The authentication servers are what check if you're using a premium account. Not only that, but they also allow you to use your skins in older versions of the game. Mojang has also for some reason erased all the server downloads for beta and alpha versions and some early release versions from their website and the minecraft launcher itself. You can download them from Minecraft Version Changer, but those require you to use offline mode, which can allow your server to be vulnerable to hackers. This issue is also very easy to fix, which makes me wonder even more why Mojang wont fix this. By the way, its not like the old authentication servers straight up stopped working, Mojang shut them down for whatever reason. Mojang developers might think that this issue is very small because they are older and "inferior" versions of the game, but with more and more users going back to older versions due to updates and changes that they don't like, this issue is becoming much larger as time goes on.