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Originally Posted by Angelox
I don't see it as a Decentralization, maybe because I don't depend on it (the public LS). There are many people into Minilogin, and they stay with the project. The developers are working for the 'public' version of the emulator, and I don't see where it would matter, just so long as there's an LS available. It just doesn't seem that important to me, what is important is the frustration people get when all this is down and now one can play or do anything else.
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The problem is majority of the lifeblood many servers trickles in from players looking for something they heard about on a website, which is almost always gone or not what they really wanted afterall. The login server makes it easy to go and try something else without any talent since the majority of our players do seem to struggle.
That considered, if we enhanced the web site to include a list of servers supporting mini-login list where you easily controlled what is up and down (a new hook or telnet) and join from there, this would provide the same affect and could be mirrored without security risk. This same application could also be built into a minipatcher that does nothing but simply get a list of servers and connect to the selected just as minilogin performs.
I'm a bit behind on my current project to jump in head first at the moment but I wouldn't mind spear heading such a task in the near future.