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How about making small change to how servers in serverlist are ordered?
Lets randomly take one server from server list and add it to top of list.
That "featured" server could then stay there for several hours or day, and then another random server would be choosen.
This will push players to try different servers and also distribute players among servers more equally.

A drop down- or search box would be a nice addition.

Krock wrote:A drop down- or search box would be a nice addition.

Well, new players don't know what to search, so they just click on any server from top of the list. And if that server is already full or near full, they can get bad impression about Minetest - like it is laggy, too crowded etc.

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Esteban wrote:I think that it would be nice to add something that if a server is full, is sent to the end of the list.

Yes, good idea.
( i noticed that if server shows it has still 2 slots for players, you cannot login anyway, so it must be taken into account)

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And here is another idea - additionally to minetest.conf parameter "max_users" hawing something like "max_users_softlimit".
When softlimit is reached, server will stop registering itself in online serverlist, so only players who already know this server can join.