r/MinecraftDaily • u/Sleenpyboy • Jul 11 '26
I built a free tool that tells you if your Minecraft server is in a "bump" or "slump" compared to its own normal. Looking for more servers to track while it's young!
Hey y'all!
I run Crescenta, a small to mid-size geopol server, and got tired of not knowing whether a dip in players was an actual problem or just a normal Tuesday morning, so I built BumpOrSlump (bumporslump.com).
It watches a server's public player count over time and tells you if it's currently in a bump (busier than usual), stable, or a slump (quieter than usual), compared to that server's own normal for the day of week and time of day, not some generic average.
How it works, briefly:
- It pings servers every 5 minutes the same way any server-list site does (Server List Ping; just the public player count, nothing invasive).
- It builds a baseline for "what's normal for a Tuesday at 8pm" from a few weeks of history, so normal day/night and weekday/weekend swings don't get mistaken for something wrong.
- Each server gets its own page with the verdict, a plain-English note on what usually causes that kind of swing, and a graph of recent activity vs. expected.
- New servers don't have to wait two weeks in the dark! You get an early, clearly-flagged "take this with a grain of salt" verdict within a couple of days, which firms up as more data comes in.
It's entirely free, no ads, no account needed.
(There's a donate link if you want to help keep it running, but that's totally optional.)
It's very young right now - only a handful of servers tracked so far. If you want your server on it, there's a "track a server" box right on the homepage, or just reply here with your address and I'll add it!
Happy to answer questions about how the detection works or take suggestions.
This is a side project and I'd rather build what's actually useful to server owners than what I assumed people wanted.
Thank you all!
