I have been wondering for awhile what the best option was for running a server that is 80% 1.7 clients and then the rest 1.8. I have tried 1.8.8 Spigot Jars with protocolsupport, protocol hack, and now people are recommending that I use paperspigot. It is a practice pvp server so no 1.8 features are really needed. Whats the best and most efficient way to do this?
I run a PVP network and we use a modified version of paper spigot. I believe we modified 1649, so I'd say use paper spigot 1.7 (protocol hack).