Adhoc server list: Show metadata

[hrydgard]

This is a first draft, will probably not end up in 1.20 (but maybe 1.20.2).

Feedback requested! @Kethen

I'm not sure if we should exhibit the discord links, may lead to excessive traffic.. not sure.

[Kethen]

Looking good!

Few things come to mind:

• Should there be a status page button? Btw data.json should look like this going forward if the server provides it at all https://github.com/Kethen/aemu/blob/2026-03-03/pspnet_adhocctl_server/www/data.json.sample .
• Think icmp pinging the servers while the list is visible is possible? That an/or the location field might be helpful for users to pick the closest server

[hrydgard]

Yeah let's get this right so we don't have to change it too much later :)

Yeah, it would be possible to ping directly, adding a little indicator, that'd be cool. Maybe even ping time.

Soon all will have (relay) so maybe we should flip that and show "No Relay" in red if they don't have it...

And I have some more ideas. We do need a info or status button to pop up a dialog where we show the info from data.json, and we could move some metadata like the description to that dialog, to keep the visual size of the entries down.

I'm also thinking that data.json could provide some metadata as well, such as the description and discord link. Maybe we can reach a point where all we hardcode (or download from ppsspp.org) is the list of server, and the rest of the metadata is just fetched directly from the servers.

[NABN00B]

Shouldn't this be a group of radio buttons? Would avoid the excessive amount of "Use" buttons.

[hrydgard]

@NABN00B Yeah, probably...

[Kethen]

Yeah let's get this right so we don't have to change it too much later :)

Yeah, it would be possible to ping directly, adding a little indicator, that'd be cool. Maybe even ping time.

Soon all will have (relay) so maybe we should flip that and show "No Relay" in red if they don't have it...

And I have some more ideas. We do need a info or status button to pop up a dialog where we show the info from data.json, and we could move some metadata like the description to that dialog, to keep the visual size of the entries down.

I'm also thinking that data.json could provide some metadata as well, such as the description and discord link. Maybe we can reach a point where all we hardcode (or download from ppsspp.org) is the list of server, and the rest of the metadata is just fetched directly from the servers.

I'm not sure how exactly we should do this yet, but for reference, citra used to host a server master list that the community can list their servers. The restful API is still being used in citra forks, an imlementation can be found here for reference

https://github.com/simvux/room-reg-impl

[hrydgard]

We're gonna do something similar to infra-dns.json for list updates, I'll help add that for 1.20.1 or so. I guess I can add something on my server to automatically update the file from a git repo every day... I probably should do that with infra-dns.json too.

[CauaLMF]

Yeah let's get this right so we don't have to change it too much later :)

Yeah, it would be possible to ping directly, adding a little indicator, that'd be cool. Maybe even ping time.

Soon all will have (relay) so maybe we should flip that and show "No Relay" in red if they don't have it...

And I have some more ideas. We do need a info or status button to pop up a dialog where we show the info from data.json, and we could move some metadata like the description to that dialog, to keep the visual size of the entries down.

I'm also thinking that data.json could provide some metadata as well, such as the description and discord link. Maybe we can reach a point where all we hardcode (or download from ppsspp.org) is the list of server, and the rest of the metadata is just fetched directly from the servers.

Using ICMP has some problems; some servers block ICMP and would be marked as unavailable.
In my server's case, ICMP is allowed, but there's a catch: the displayed ping is different from the actual ping because there's an ICMP redirection on my server.

[hrydgard]

I'm doing a simplified version for 1.20.2:

With the non-visible metadata in a popup that you get if you click the little info buttons.

Custom server list is so far only available from the ini file, I'll add UI to add/remove servers later.