Feature request: support News items

[bgstack15]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

News is always empty

Describe the solution you'd like

getNews.go returns an empty value. Would you please consider adding support for news to read (html or markdown or plain text?) files from a news/ directory?

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Software Components

• Server
• Server certificate generator (genCert)
• Launcher
• Launcher tools (bin subfolder)
• Battle Server Manager

Games

• Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
• Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
• Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
• Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition
• Age of Mythology: Retold

Additional context

No response

Mockups or Screenshots

No response

[luskaner]

Hello @bgstack15

That's certainly a good idea, I also was thinking of simply showing 'news' of the proyect itself... 🤔, mainly new releases. But your solution is simpler (and does not require internet)

[bgstack15]

I might poke at this, but please don't let that interfere with any plans you have for developing this feature!

I expect that you could preseed any release builds with a news/Title_of_news.md with the project news, as a guide for the server operator to replace with his own news files.

[luskaner]

No problem, I was thinking something along these lines:

• Add a default resources/config/Title_of_news.builtin.md
• If there is connection download the latest resources/config/Title_of_news.builtin.md and save it.
• If resources/config/Title_of_news.user.md exists?
  • Yes: Use that file.
  • No: Use resources/config/Title_of_news.builtin.md

[bgstack15]

Oh, please, don't make it try to connect to anything, or make a parameter/config option to enable or disable that.

Would the Title_of_news.user.md use the steam_id, or is that a string literal user? Regardless, supporting multiple markdown files in that directory would be useful. The game client supports separate entries, but I guess it's not necessary.

[luskaner]

Oh I meant a global news (or per game?) not per user. Mmm my idea of the news was that people notice when a new version is available (otherwise there is not much news to share) as the software has no feature to auto-update.

[bgstack15]

A LAN server operator could have news, such as tournament rules or technical details (which probably wouldn't be helpful because that user has already configured his workstation correctly!) or other news for the LAN.