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> I will forever mourn the general demise of server browsers. Too many games require you to use matchmaking systems, which means it's very hard to build up a small community in-game anymore.

It's been many moons since I was into gaming, but back in the RtCW [1][2] days there was a bunch of regulars that played on a server run my (IIRC) Charter. There were many servers in the browse list, and I'm sure many had a community of regulars just like we did.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Castle_Wolfenstein

[2] A Linux client was actually released, which is what I mostly used. (Actually running it on FreeBSD's Linuxator.)



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