JoinGG covers the scene end to end: what is new on the servers, which patch notes dropped this week, how to build a community that sticks — and everything worth knowing before you queue up.
Counter-Strike 2 replaced CS:GO, but the community server scene did not simply vanish with it. What survives, who still plays it, and how to connect.
Facepunch announced a Garry's Mod September 2026 update coming on 16 September at 3PM GMT, featuring backwards compatibility for dedicated servers.
Day of Defeat is a WWII class-based objective shooter with a persistent community. Classes, objectives, installing it and finding a server worth joining.
Screen, tmux and systemd solve the same problem differently. Which to use, and why the answer changes once the server matters.
How Day of Defeat: Source differs from the GoldSrc original, what its community servers actually run, and how to install it and find one worth joining.
Why the host advantage is real, why a listen server dies when the host leaves, and the point at which playing with friends becomes running a real server.
A reset buys back the early game and spends player investment to do it. Which servers survive the trade and which do not.
The dozen commands that cover almost everything a server owner needs, and the four mistakes that cost people their machines.
Every player-driven economy inflates, for a structural reason. The three sinks that actually work, and the inflows that quietly break everything.
What each hosting model actually gives you, why single-thread CPU dominates most game servers, and how to tell when you have outgrown the one you are on.
Why single-thread CPU beats core count for most game servers, why RAM is the usual ceiling, when disk speed matters, and how to find what is limiting you.
Copying the files is easy. Keeping the address, the players and the search ranking is the work, and it starts a week early.
