The source code has recently been rewritten from Python to Go, for better performance and stability, as well as cleaner structure and ease of use for the server host.

Please note that the code is still in a experimental stage at this time and there is still a lot of work to be done before it's ready for production use.

Features For Players

A friendlier server list, which is also sortable.
Dedicated pages for each public server, with more detailed info.
Pages for private servers too, upon request.
Player count stats and graphs.

Features For Web Host

TODO

Data Source

The data used for most of the public servers is scraped from the Byond page. Relying on Byond means we're affected by their server downtime (no page, no data), but we will automatically discover any new public servers.

All private servers, and some public ones, are being polled directly for data. That means a list of private servers have to be maintained manually, but we're not affected by any downtimes (as long as the game servers themselves are up and running). This is usually a more reliable method, but it's more expensive to run since we have to send multiple network requests (instead of one to Byond).

Both methods can be affected by spoofing attacks, done by bad servers, and so there's no way to guarantee that the calculated stats and graphs are 100% correct.

But then again it's just some silly numbers for a bunch of games.

Source Code

This is a open source project running on Go and jQuery.

The source code itself is hosted at github.com and is open for any and all contributions.

License

MIT License, see the LICENSE file.

Credits

A. Svensson - Author and host.
stuicey - Thanks for original idea and first work.
headswe - Thanks for reverse engineered code for polling SS13 servers.
Hugo14453 - Thanks for new corgi favicon.

Todo

Bugs

Better colors for the warning/offline server notices.
Better flags (set db file, servers.json file etc.).
Prevent locking the whole db when updating.
Update static files to newer versions.
Use unicode for server names in the templates.
Fix and clean up the tooltips in the server details template.
Use the same format for the verbose timestamps.
Check the licenses of external depencies and add credits.

New features

A new name for the program and a fancy CLI banner
Tests (a must have for the scraper and poller)!?!
Show note about data source for each server (scraped/polled).
Show fancy web stats from the web server logs?
About page:
- Move all notices about Byond sources to this page.
- A way to contact me (reddit, github etc.).
- Info on how to request adding a new server to be polled.
Stats page:
- Server graphs
- Player graphs + average
- Number of online/warn/offline servers.
- Total/average number of online players.
- Log of recently added/removed servers.
- The number of data points since start.
- Time since last update.
- Time to run update

Suggestions

Frontpage of some sort?
Player growth rate for each server (+/- compared to avg.)?
Use some kind of logo?