1skandar

1.9 probably won't be stable enough to update to until at least 2017. Remember, there was 450 days between 1.8, which was crap, and 1.8.9, which mods are now actually...

Pretty much. And 1.7.10 didn't start to get really popular until about the time 1.8 was released. That is generally how it works.

Not only that, but there is an increasing, shift to 1.8.9 and away from 1.7.10.