Allow servers to have their own "descriptions" defined by a cvar or whatever

[Just-a-Unity-Dev]

See that empty space? Put some text into it and you should get something like this

Of course with the correct font and actually programmed in instead of using GIMP

[ElectroJr]

IIRC adding a discord button was also discussed in the maintainer meeting, though I can't find it in the notes. The basic gist was that many servers currently have a discord link in the name, so just adding support for a discord button would already make the names significantly shorter.

[Just-a-Unity-Dev]

IIRC adding a discord button was also discussed in the maintainer meeting, though I can't find it in the notes. The basic gist was that as many servers currently have a discord link in the name, so just adding support for a discord button would already make the names significantly shorter.

would also stop cramming everything into the title, like so:

[LRP][US-WEST][16+] LongServerNameThatICantBeBotheredToTypeOutCompletely (discord.gg/AnotherLongServerNameBecauseNoVanityLink)

[Just-a-Unity-Dev]

Willing to code this when I got the time

[PJB3005]

The way I was thinking of doing this is as such:

• Have the /info endpoint be fetched to show server description, since it's large data and we don't want to send it with status.
• Include a desc field in the JSON for just a regular plain-text description.
• I just merged https://github.com/space-wizards/RobustToolbox/pull/2769 which had been sitting for far too long, it can be used to do stuff like [LRP] and such.
  • I figure the best way to do this would be to have standardized tags like rp:low, age:18, region:usw, etc... Show some nice icons for it.
• Add some sort of generic list field to store links to the /info JSON.
  • I'm thinking you want to have an icon identifier, link text, and link url. So like {"icon": "discord", "text": "Discord", "url": "https://discord.gg"}. I don't know how we would put this in the config on the game server side though. One option is to have content expose a bunch of standard CVars like hub.url_discord and then filling them up with an engine API on info request.

[Just-a-Unity-Dev]

I was originally gonna do this but life got in the way. Couldn't even start programming it. If someone wants to pick this up feel free to do so

[Just-a-Unity-Dev]

@PJB3005 wooooooooo!!!