I spent 5 hours making a chrome extension.. It all went in vain

Introduction


As an AS player, it's very hard to find an AS server on Roblox's server list, so I almost never touched them, until... I found this.

Explanation


Let me explain, this is an API request to fetch a server list’s data . The interesting thing here is that it includes ping (The highlighted part of the image).

Knowing that I knew I had to do something with it, I started watching tutorials on making a chrome extension… eventually, it worked.

The Fall


So here, you might think: “Yo it worked, let’s goooo”. But when I tested it, all the servers I got were USW or USE, and at that moment, I realized the ping is actually the server’s ping, not your client’s ping to the server. I was extremely disappointed and stopped working on the extension.

Acceptance


Of course, I didn’t stop there, I went on the dev forum, trying to find a solution. I did find one, and it was to own the game. I accepted the reality and moved on.

Open-sourced Project


Since I failed in doing that, maybe someone with more creativity than me can do it. So I decided to open-source it on github, here’s the link: GitHub - Tracck/Roblox-ping-chrome-extension: The extension to check ping

Do note that I discontinued it afterward, so it only works for the first 10 servers. You will have to expand it by yourself.

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ive never seen you before but good job on trying to make this work.

Thank you :frcryin:

oh and also
+5 arcane credit

I’ve never seen you before even though you’ve apparently been here since August. I mostly read nerdy stuff and the words just blended together but I got the gist.

Good Job :nod: :+1:t6:

I make books not pay attention in math.

Oh my social anxiety gave me a hard time replying to people and making topics. But I’ve just recently decided to just do it, thank you! :nod:

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Don’t worry. We all have too smooth of brains as forumers to make fun of you

FYI, you can’t outpizza the hut. just sayin’

click the “Play” button instead of joining a server individually

to my experience, it links you to the server with the best connection for YOU
sure i main AS, but i can also get connected to USE and USW and i play on them just as well, because it connects me to the best server for that time

Yea I know, but there’re many types of the same server. AS Tokyo, AS Hong Kong, AS Singapore (best for me). So I expected the ping to give me the best AS server in all of the servers

I seen your post on the crowns/galleons thing for items. Nice work all around, glad to see there’s a(nother, not me) coder amongst us here in the forums.

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Thank you, I’ve always worked on roblox studio so most of my knowledge is all from roblox. I’m making these projects to broaden my knowledge, but at the same time, due to my lack of experience, I can’t make the code flexible as I wanted, making some features I wanted to add ended up in the trash can.

should still connect you to the best server for you thats open

I actually think it connects you to the AS server which has the most players

Anime pfp :pensive:

I am sorry but your opinion is immediately invalidated

Nice astolfo pfp you got tho :flushed:

sorry should have specified

anime girl*

:fr:

not complaining then
:frhigh:
hope you get better wifi and can actually play on all AS servers. or at least get lucky and find your servers

sweat energy