Garanis's Server Browser (ALPHA)

hey Garanis, any updates?

Also make sure you read this: https://forum.kag2d.com/threads/stu...scripted-server-savvy.6916/page-3#post-129461

though I have a feeling you're already using curl

 

Amazing work garanis :D

PS: You could make it create statistics, like average: online time, number of players etc.

 

It is a website not a download

 

Thanks for putting the warning in there about using a different password than the official KAG account, I appreciate that.

That said, how do you store the passwords for the accounts people register, salted hash?

Suggestions (varying in size):
- When on the page to add a buddy, make the cursor default to being in the box. This lets people just add people repeatedly and just hit enter after each one (without having to go to the mouse to click back in the text box after each one)
- <will probably add more suggestions as I browse around>

Otherwise great work and nice use of the API. Hopefully we have some sort of push notification for buddy state at some point, or get an API-side buddy list implemented so that you can poll the status of a bunch of people at once

 

Some other suggestions:
- Show a total count of servers displayed (matching filters) and total number of players in the servers shown (like the in-game browser does)
- Make the gold/passworded but ternary controls like in the game (so that you can filter no gold/no passworded as well)
- Something we want to support in-game at some point but is low priority for us is to have advanced filtering expressions and let people save a list of filters. This would allow you to do something like
MAPW >= 250 and MAPH < 200 AND %full >= 75 AND %full < 99 AND (so on) AND gameMode == "Capture The Flag!" OR (another expression to build a joint set if wanted)

It's really simple to do this with the API, just adding /key/value filters to the URL (and then doing an additional API call for each ORed clause)

Something I wanted to do with the soldat web lobby but never finished it (http://soldat.thd.vg/en/lobby/) was have a graph of the activity on each server over time - though this would require you polling the server list every 5 minutes or so throughout the day from a cron job. You could graph a lot of interesting things which server owners/admins would probably like to use on their homepages/signatures/etc: a bar graph of what time of day/day of week a given server is busiest, activity on a server in the last 24h/week/month/year, %age of servers with players in them over the last d/m/w/y etc etc.


edit: also, if you do anything that operates every 5m (like pulling the list to aggregate stats/graphs), there's a lot of neat shit you can do:

- If you allow people to save "favorite servers" or "favorite server filters", you can check the server list when you pull it at an interval and let people set up notifications/alerts. Then you can have it send them an e-mail, AIM IM, etc letting them know when their favorite server meets some threshold of activity or when a server filter has matches
- You can alert people when certain buddies are seen online/etc and send the user an e-mail/IM/PM with the join link (or you can even let people set one-time notices like "e-mail me the next time player X is online"

Damn I'm actually envious that I don't have the time to work on implementing things like this - but it's a project better served by some community devs anyway

 

Only just discovered this, but damn it looks tasty! :D