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Switch MCStats to another Metrics provider.

DoNotSpamPls opened this issue ยท 15 comments

commented

MCStats has been in a half-broken state for years now, and it doesn't seem like the developer is going to fix it

commented

https://bstats.org/ would be the obvious choice to move to.

commented

Half-broken in what way? - I was looking at removing it, but it seems to be up and running just fine.

commented

@Sleaker there are 3 reasons

  1. The static.mcstats.org server is running very slow for some reason, and this results in half-working webpages like this .
  2. Even if you manage to open the plugin stats page, location maps just show "Unknown" as a location, and some charts just don't load at all. The author of MCStats is nowhere to be found to fix it.
  3. This is pretty minor, but passwords in MCStats are stored as SHA1, which is known to be vulnerable. bStats uses salted bcrypt, which is a significantly better solution.

The only downside people have expressed about bStats is that if you have a universal plugin, you'd have to create seperate pages for bukkit, bungee and/or sponge, respectively. This shouldn't be a problem for Vault, since it's just a Bukkit plugin.

commented

@Sleaker It's very likely that mcstats.org will expire after 3 days, and the service will be dead for good.
Hopefully it won't cause errors for everyone using Vault.
It got renewed on the last day, so it's fine, but it's still as unreliable as it is.

commented

@Sleaker Update vault and remove mcstats and use bstats ;)

It was just amazing to see a plugin works 3 years after the last update ;)

NICE JOB btw

commented

bump?

commented

@DoNotSpamPls - bumping doesn't really do anything, it's still in the planned list, this isn't a forum.

commented

@Sleaker If it's fine with you, I would like to make a pull request for this. I've been using bStats in my own plugins for a while now and really like it.
The custom graphs from vault's metrics class can also be implemented for bStats.

commented

@NiklasEi Sleaker will have to contact Bastian (the owner of bStats) in order to get the "vault" plugin that's there deleted (it was a fake version posted by a user called kanoxx, it's now gone from spigot resources)

commented

@DoNotSpamPls

  1. It is not a fake version
  2. I (kanoxx) can give him the plugin name without any trouble
commented

Sorry, "fake" was probably the wrong word. I meant that it's kind of unofficial. Thanks for coming in to help though ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

commented

@conreptio - This PR has been completed and I have an account on bstats.org - can you transfer the ownership over to me? Thanks!

commented

Hey, ๐Ÿ‘‹
I need your exact bStats name (case sensitive!) in order to transfer the account.
Is it 'Sleaker'?

commented

@Bastian it is!

commented

Done ๐Ÿ‘