hosted worlds custom domain ability

[merry violet]

give users the option to set up a custom domain for their hosted world. could work by asking the user to set up a CNAME record on their domain's dns.

[worldly drift]

fire idea

[ivory needle]

Interesting idea, but seeing as how Hosted Worlds is designed to work as a close replacement for the "Open to LAN" feature, this ventures in a direction that I'm not sure Hosted Worlds will go in

Just my opinion tho

[merry violet]

lunarclient.world already "proxies" the LAN connection. the CNAME record would serve the same purpose.

it would still go through the backend of lunarclient.world while having a feel of customizability.

[merry violet]

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[red prism]

No one helping me

[hoary kernel]

if people could decide what their hosted world domain was then this could cause issues when someone uses the username of someone else for the hosted world domain
a world is hosted by one player so it makes sense that its username.lunarclient.world and this makes it easy for other players to remember

[ivory needle]

Also would require having to moderate domains ^

[hoary kernel]

yeah it would require a world filter
with the current implementation it just uses mojangs username word filter because its just the players username

[merry violet]

by custom domain, I meant that the user has to use their actual domain name. e.g. myworld dot mydomain dot com

I don't ask for custom subdomain ability

therefore, even if the domain name is inappropriate, lunar client won't have any responsibility since it's the user's property

[ivory needle]

Well.... in that case, they can already do this, no?

Just redirect a custom domain to <username>.lunarclient.world

Adding this as a feature directly into Lunar Client would not make sense given your explanation, for the following reasons;

• If it's added into the client, it will be official and require moderation or strenuous filtering,
• If it still requires a user to purchase and own a custom domain, the feature relies on a third party variable, and does not seem fitting to add into the client

[merry violet]

won't work, you'd have to use a service like cloudflare workers and proxy everything to the lunarclient.world domain

[merry violet]

as I said, there's no moderating cause it's the user's property

it's like how custom domains work on other services

or link in bios, if that helps you understand better in a way

I respect your decision tho and won't bother any further

[ivory needle]

I'm saying that if Lunar Client adds this inside the client as a feature, this would automatically apply liability, so moderation/filtering would be required. If it's something to be used optionally to the default IP, then I don't see this needing to be a feature within the client.

[ivory needle]

You just said it won't work, then explained how it would work 😭

There's many way to redirect a custom domain to an existing domain

[merry violet]

I was explaining how no moderation is needed because the subdomain won't be on lunar-owned domains

I also doubt it's gonna work with no issues even with cloudflare workers

it would be a fancy implementation if Lunar allowed you to set up your world behind a custom domain, but I get the concerns you're talking about

[ivory needle]

Yes but as soon as we implement the feature of allowing these subdomains to be applied inside the client, it automatically applies liability. Someone sets their custom domain to something extremely vulgar or offensive, then shares it around that they did it on Lunar Client- that's something we'd be held accountable for in the public eye

[ivory needle]

Many people I know set up custom domains for servers running cloudflare, tcpshield, or anything similar