Featured Servers section proposal

[phinner]

Summary

Adds an experimental Featured Servers server category to the server list.

Stems from an idea I proposed in the Mindustry Server Owners discord.

Links

• Add priority servers, update servers_v7.json Mindustry#8720
• Anuken/Mindustry@7fbf4ca

Details

The server is a proxy, running https://github.com/xpdustry/poly.
The proxy can be claimed for a limited time (maximum 24 hours) to route players to the proxied server.
Intended to be used for events.

Limitations

• Currently, the proxy server can only be controlled if the server owner is in the Mindustry Server Owners discord. I'm trying to figure out a proper way to not require that.
• The poly plugin logs claims in a public discord channel. I haven't added rate limits yet.
• The proxy server is located in EU west (France). It is therefore not guaranteed to be reachable by all other regions. Adding a proxy somewhere else, such as EU east and/or ASIA would be ideal.

Merge requirements

At least 2 approvals and Anuke.

[50275]

You're asking the wrong people. Go to the Discord; only Anuke should be making this decision.

[phinner]

You're asking the wrong people. Go to the Discord;

I did that initially, but not much reaction 🤷.
This is why I moved that here, with a working plugin and details about the implementation.
And also for the sake of transparency since here everything is public.

only Anuke should be making this decision.

Forgot to include that. My bad.

[50275]

The whole point of this repository is for Anuke not to monitor it. If you didn't get a response then, you're almost certainly not going to get a better one here.

[Anuken]

[TheRadioactiveBanana]