GFLBans

GFLBans is going to be a full replacement for sourcebans that replicates much of its functionality while improving upon areas where sourcebans falls short.

Specific Improvements that I plan to implement

• Speed improvements, currently it takes a few seconds to load the bans/comms list. With caching and better-designed tables (possibly better web code too), we can make huge improvements in this area.
• Multiple permission models: Better handling of admin ranks for games that aren't sourcemod based (GMOD, Minecraft, rust, unturned)
• Support games that don't use steamid. (Maybe)
• Additional methods of detecting ban evasion
• Bans are submitted and queried through an API instead of a database connection. It's easy to do a lot of damage in a short amount of time with direct database connections. (DROP TABLE bans; DROP TABLE admins;)
• Integration of Admin applications with the ban system
• The ability for a server to still use the ban system, while ignoring other servers' bans/comms (I.E. wanna be able to use web comms, but don't want other servers' commbans affecting a particular server)
• Ability for admins to issue server specific bans. (Say GFL opens a serious rp server and the punishments are kinda harsh; we could restrict bans made on that server to only that server. Wouldn't apply to hacking/really bad offenses)
• Using steamid64 (community id) over steamid32. (Due to it being a number instead of a String, we can do more efficient sorting in database, resulting in faster lookup times) Also, admins can worry less about all that hassle about the first bit being 1 for some games, and 0 for others.
• Ability for admins to set 'fallback passwords'. The use of these would be that admins could still access sourcebans even if steam's openid is broken/down. (Passwords would have security requirements, obviously, and to prevent/make it harder for admins to give their passwords out, 2FA would be required.)
• (Maybe) For certain types of bans (rdm on ttt/breach), automatically attach the relevant logs to the ban so that admins don't have to worry about getting proof for those type of bans.

I don't know when this will be complete, so I'm setting it's expected completion date to some crazy ass guess.

Feel free to comment on this if there is anything you'd like to see in this.