Welcome to MinecraftTracker.com
Hello MC-Market and welcome to my new project! I have been working on this project for a long time now.This server list is kinda brand new, but we have a lot of experience because that we own a danish version of the same site, that have been live since 2014.
Today we released a new design, system and everything and thought about expanding the site so everyone can use it!
Link: https://MinecraftTracker.com/
Thoug I don't have any plans to ruin the danish site and the community I have been building on for years. So we own 2 domains that's running the same system but with language control.
Which features do we have?
Basically our system has the same functions as all the other server lists. Our functions are maybe just build in another way than the others
I think that we have a clean design, that is easy to work with and to get around on the site.
Also a thing I like to do, is to get all the data I can get about each server and use it for something.
Playerlist? What’s that.
I think we have a feature that I have never seen before on any other server list. A Playerlist.
When a server has server-query enabled in the settings, people are able to get the playerlist on each server. With that I can store the data and in a way “stalk” players. I don’t know if it will work when I now have a international site, but it does work really good in Denmark
I also thinks it’s funny that you can look yourself up and see how many times I have seen you and which servers I saw you on.
Also it is not that accurate because not all servers have the query enabled, but still a fun thing.
How search works
Also a thing that I haven’t seen before. Our search function is a bit complex and advanced, if you want to be more advanced.
Of course you can search for specific names, but you can also search for specific tags and a few other things.
You can click on each tag to enable it for the search – it’s easy to see when it’s enabled
But the unique thing is, that you can easy select more than one! You can actually search on multiple tags. So maybe you want a Towny server that also have a Hub? It’s easy to find! I guess…
Let’s go to the server page!
When we go to a specific server to vote, report or comment, you can also see many other things!
We have a few basic information at the top about the status on the server, IP to the server and so on. Basic stuff.
But you can also see the description the server owner can write, we have statistics and if query is enabled, you can see the server list and plugin list.
Statistics
Again we collect many things every 15. Minute, so why the hell not use it for something?
We have created a few statistics that updates automatically throughout the day.
· How many players does the server have?
· How many votes does the server have?
· Uptime, is the server really stable?
· How much score does the server gain every day?
· Latency, is the server good?
How many players does the server have?
Every 15. Minute we collect how many players each server has at the moment and on these data, we can create a simple chart to show player number each time we collect the data.
How many votes does the server have?
So obvious people can vote on the server, but how many votes do they get? Again with a simple chart, you can see how many votes they get each day.
Uptime, is the server really stable?
When we collect data, we can obvious see the server status and we do save that each time. At the end of the day we are doing the math on the data we got throughout the day to see how many times we saw you online. Though it’s allowed to be offline 1 time. It’s easy to understand how the system is collecting data and when.
How much score does the server gain every day?
Our system is running based on server score that I will talk about later in this thread. But here can you see how much score the server gains every day.
Latency, is the server good?
With this chart you can easily get a good view on the ping/latency on the server. We have a few servers around the world where we are tracking the latency. On the website you can see which country they have the best ping.
Though it can sometimes get the wrong ping.
It is also possible to have a YouTube video added to the server and there is a comment section.
That was basically the features we are happy to have and of course we are in development every day, so new functions and features will come!
Score/Point system
Our system also has a score system. We are pinging every server every 15 minutes and it’s also at that moment we are getting and storing all the server data we get (playerlist, server statistics and so on).
Every night at about 12:00:00 (UTC/GMT +1 hour). Our system creates a daily report on all the data that we collected throughout the day. It is also at that time we’re generating the score for the day. So mostly the server rank will be at the same throughout the day but it’s changing at night. We thought that’s a better thing than generating it throughout the day.
The score it generated on the data we have collected the whole day and then doing some simple math on votes, players online, uptime and queries.
Also I have a few unique ideas for a new way to get score on servers. Hopefully that will give server owners a new opportunity to get score and get higher rankings
Why score on queries?
Because our playerlist service is relying on servers with query enabled, so we are rewarding those servers with extra points as a thanks.
Just remember, that if we see anyone that’s trying to get more score with faking the data. We’ll detect it. We do still have the control and power to change everything
All in all, I hope that this is falling in good place and that no one is going crazy about it.
