We talked about a lot of those issues tonight - we decided that rather than curation it's probably better to go with a tagging system (e.g crits, nocrits, votecrits; no ads, ads, video ads; stock maps, some custom maps, etc etc etc loads of potential options here) and let the community decide for themselves what they are and aren't interested in. Maybe with a way to leave feedback on "is this server using accurate tags?" (and ofc may also require additional spot checks from whoever). MAYBE also with a way to rate/review servers, something that has strengths and drawbacks. (The whole thing pretty much started last night and is in extremely early stages and is still taking shape, lots still to decide/discuss/see what's possible.)
That's the complex end of it, vague plan atm is that people first accessing the website are greeted by a big shiny option saying "are you here for a 'normal' game or for a custom gamemode?" or something similarly accesible. We know accesibility + ease of use will be a big thing as this'll be used by a lot of people to whom server browsers are foreign. Also, plan is for the other main boon of it to be map workshop integration - i.e you can log in through steam, it checks for custom maps you've subscribed to in the workshop and then sends you to a reasonably active server playing one of your subscribed maps. Or something similar, details are far from being hammered out but the people working on it think it can work. Point is there's loads of enthusiasm for playing/trying out custom maps people come across in the workshop but currently no easy way to actually play a game on them, if we can help facilitate that that'd be awesome for the community and mapmakers alike. Basically everything is in *extremely* early development and up for discussion (and has been discussed in a depth not reflected in this hlds thread), like others have said please join in the discord if you've got questions/want to see what's going on/want to help out (if only so we're not hijacking this thread and spamming everyone's inboxes!) On 27 July 2016 at 03:45, Tim Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > How will this be any different from gametracker.com? It seems like anyone > that will want to use your list is someone that is already comfortable with > using the server browser. > > How will you know if someone is impersonating another community to leech > off their popularity and then getting them banned unfairly? > > And most importantly, how can we be sure that you will remain impartial > and not secretly boost 8chan servers or lower your competition? > > In places like /r/tf2 and spuf, you can already see the favoritism where > they have a "good" community server list and strangely it is missing some > of the most (if not the most) popular tf2 servers. > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >
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