This is mainly a quick fix for Express Queues not sending players if nobody joins the standard queue.

Changes:

• Fixed not sending express queue if nobody ever joins the standard queue (or the other way around)
• Skip express queue logic completely on free version. No need to do the extra checks that are never going to be used.

This update has two highly-requested features that I have finally added. Both of these new features had a bunch of changes under-the-hood, so if you have/made any addons, they might need to be updated. Feel free to contact me with any questions you might have.

Both of the new features also have new messages which replace old ones. The old messages will still be in the messages file, and the new ones are automatically added with the default. If you modified all of ajQueue's messages, you might need to copy these over. But be sure to note the differences between the old and new ones.

With this release, ajQueue now absolutely requires velocity 3.2.0 or later. Bungeecord requirements have not changed.

Big New Features

• Express Queues for ajQueuePlus. Express queues are meant to be a more fair replacement for the existing priority system. Theoretically with priority, if enough priority (paid) players keep joining the queue, no standard players will ever be sent. The express queue is a separate queue that is meant to only be open to paid members. ajQueue then alternates between sending players from the standard queue and express queue. You can also change the ratio in the config to send more express players or more standard players, or leave it at the default of 1:1. Since the express queue is only open to some players, the idea is that it will be shorter than the standard queue, so paid players can join the server faster without the possibility of no standard players ever being sent. The priority system still works and will probably never go anywhere (it even works within the express queue if that's something you'd want). Players need the ajQueue.express.<server> permission to join an express queue, so by default nothing will change for players.
• Better ETAs. ajQueue now measures the time it takes to send players to the server, and will use that to calculate a rolling average for more accurate ETAs. This new system even allows servers that are full to have an ETA. I've set the default to average the last 10 sends, but you can tweak that in the config if you want more stable or ETAs that update to changes in sending times faster. If you want for some reason, this new ETA system can be disabled in the config.

Other changes

• Take supported-protocols into account in group balancing (for default and first balancers)
• Fixed priority messages ignoring everything after a second colon in the message
• Added treat-negative-one-max-player-as-infinite config option
• Don't let instant send if more than 1 player is in the queue without bypass
• Fixed backend trying to access PlaceholderAPI when its not installed
• Limited /ajQueue list to showing 50 players per queue (otherwise it kicks the command sender if too many players are in queues)
• Fixed a ConcurrentModificationException that sometimes happened when a player leaves the proxy
• Fixed a rare NullPointerException that could happen if a player is in the queue and queue events are sent while they are in between servers
• Optimized bypass and priority logic for ajQueuePlus
• Some other small optimizations for both versions
• Fixed a conflict with nLogin, where queue-server wouldn't work if a premium member was redirected to it using nLogin
• Fixed server aliases ignoring everything after a second colon
• Fixed the config updater putting the priority-messages into enable-priority-messages when updating the config
• Fixed velocity-kick-reason not supporting hex colors
• Fixed make-room comment saying the permission twice but not that the server needs to be full
• Fixed SuccessfulSendEvent being triggered for remove-player-on-server-switch
• Added first-strict balancer, that always picks the first server in the group no matter what
• Added 1.21.10 and 1.21.11 protocol names to default messages (you can always add protocol names manually btw)
• Add a warning when auto-add-to-queue-on-kick fails to queue a player. It suggests raising auto-add-to-queue-on-kick-delay
• Added ping-timeout option for velocity if you want to use a different timeout for ajQueue pinging servers than the one from velocity.toml
• Fixed instant sends not working if an offline player is sitting in the queue
• Clarified that velocity-kick-message does not apply to offline/full servers
• Re-check the stayqueued permission for a player when they leave, to be sure we have the most up-to-date max offline time for them.

Weird that its been over a year since the last release. Sorry, I've been busy. Anyways, here's a new release!

This version uses a new updater. If you have ajQueuePlus and want to use the automatic updater, after updating to this version, make sure to read updater-config.yml, as the updater now requires you to authenticate in order to download ajQueuePlus updates. No authentication is needed for free users. And if you manually download updates and don't care about the command updater, you don't need to do anything either.

• Updated protocol names list to include names for 1.20.4 through 1.21.8 protocols
  • You can always manually add things to this list. This update just adds them by default so you won't need to do these versions manually
• Added a new updater (and update checker). It uses my own infrastructure so it wont be effected by spigot being weird
• Don't try to send a player instantly if a server is not joinable (e.g. offline, full, etc) (this usually wasn't an issue before, but this should fix a few edge cases)
• Fixed auto-queued message not using server aliases
• Log a warning when an invalid plus priority permission is detected (instead of before where it would either error or do nothing, which lead to confusion)
• PlaceholderAPI Placeholders should now update quicker after a player joins a queue
• Add disable-proxy-communication option (not recommended for 99% of server owners, but its there if you need it)
• Fixed skip-queue-server-if-possible sometimes not recovering if a skip attempt failed
• Fixed an error in /ajQueue kick when specifying a queue for a player not in that queue
• Fixed queue servers being skipped with skip-queue-server-if-possible even though /ajQueue pausequeueserver was enabled
• Fixed /listqueues and /ajQueue list kicking players on bungee
• Added auto-add-excluded-servers to the config. If a player is kicked from a server in this list, and auto-add-to-queue-on-kick is enabled, then they will not be auto queued
• Updated the protocol version number link in the config, since wiki.vg is no more
• Added %ajqueue_queued_status% which shows the status of the queue the player is in
• Added status.skipping-queue-server message (which is disabled by default) if you want to send a message when a queue server is attempted to be skipped
• Make it even clearer that you need to specify two servers in queue-servers
• Updated some config comments
• Added some previously hard-coded kick reasons (for velocity) to the messages file
• Allow backend/spigot commands to be completely disabled
• Allow /server alias on the backend/spigot queue command to be disabled

Holy cow, it's been 8 months since the last release. Sorry it's been so long since an update. I've still been making changes, but I made it harder to release when I tried to automate releases. Back to manual updates, hopefully slightly more often

Changes

• Add Folia support (for the backend side)
• Add skip-queue-server-if-possible feature
• Added option to make /send an alias for /ajQueue send
• Unregister built-in velocity /server command if it should be replaced with the queue command
• Fixed console error if you try to auto-complete in the leavequeue command
• Improve /ajQueue usage hint
• Improve /ajQueue version command
• Probably fixed some errors with getting the last server change time (I couldn't reproduce, but it should be fixed)
• Add PriorityCalculationEvent to the API, which allows you to add priorities programmatically
• Fixed players being removed from queue-servers when they leave and have a stay queued permission
• Fixed error that could happen when checking if a server is whitelisted
• Only check for ViaVersion once instead of every time an AdaptedPlayer instance is created
• Fixed error when running the permission list debug command from the console
• Fixed velocity-kick-message silently not being sent if an error occurred
• Fixed the legacy section color code character breaking velocity-kick-message
• Fixed protocol names not being read from the messages file
• Added new API events: AutoQueueOnKickEvent, BuildServersEvent, and PreConnectEvent (Thanks KamikazeJAM/Jake Moore)
• Add act-like-no-permission-servers-dont-exist option
• No longer sends ack message when check-proxy-response is disabled
• Prevent spigot PAPI placeholders from being spammed

• Fixed invalid servers in placeholders throwing an error instead of just saying the server is invalid
• Config re-format
• Added require-queueserver-permission option to the config
• Fixed player status placeholder not working
• Fixed whitelisted status not showing for the non-player status placeholder
• Better fetching of players for spigot api
• Added plus-level-fallback to allow some leveled permissions on ajQueuePlus to work without a supported permission plugin
• Fixed QueueScoreboardActivator not activating on the correct player
• Ignore timeouts in placeholders
• Should fix nullpointers while modifying queue
• Add option to allow re-queueing for groups
• Fix player being removed before allow-group-requeue could work
• Filter auto-complete arguments
• Added ajqueue.make-room permission (disabled by default)
• Fixed priorities not being taken into account with make-room
• Add re-check-priority option to re-queue players when their priority increases
• move protocol-names to messages.yml and add newer version names
• Added manual-max-players to the config, which allows you to set a max player count for servers/groups
• Fixed wait-after-online not doing anything
• Don't parse placeholder if the player is no longer online
• Ignore error from player no longer being online
• Add QueueHolder API
• Added api to register custom PermissionHooks
• Add option to delay queue-servers by up to 3 seconds
• Fixed queue-server-delay being ignored by force-queue-server-target
• Fixed slash-server commands ignoring pre-queue checks (e.g. joinfrom permission)
• Skip invalid protocol names when moving them

See changes on github

This is the biggest update in a while. Massive updates to the API, including events and a spigot-side API.

You can see how to use the new API additions on the wiki

• Slash server commands will now not be shown if the user doesnt have permissions
• Fixed fulljoin and bypasspaused priority options not working
• (spigot) echo queue name when sending a player to a queue
• Update adventure
• Throw warning instead of error when trying to send a plugin message to a player thats not connected to a server
• Allow disabling of queue command cooldown system
• Legacy format velocity kick reason instead of just stripping all formatting
• Added Spigot-side API
• Parse colors after placeholders so that colors work in placeholders
• Fixed API not having javadocs & sources
• Added %ajqueue_status_<server>_player%
• Fixed whitelist/restricted not working well in groups
• Seperate sudo-queueing and normal queueing on spigot side. `/queue <player> <server>` on the spigot side now acts the same as `/ajqueue send`
• Add API events system
• Ignore plugin messages from disconnected players
• Fixed PositionChangeEvent being called when a player's position didn't change

See changes on github

• Fixed offline-time not working (because it was miliseconds instead of seconds)
• Fixed double-sending players with a bypass permission
• Fixed status.now-in-queue message being sent to players with bypass permissions
• Add a permission to the base manage command (so it doesn’t autocomplete)
• Fixed queues not being created for duplicated Bungee servers
• Fix occasional NPE on bungeecord (if a player is not on a server)
• Fix possible error with sending plugin message without a player name
• Fix memory leak related to queue command cooldowns
• Fixed manually creating PlayerSender not getting messages (spigot side /queue <player> <server>)
• Delay proxy check by a few ticks to hopefully make it more reliable
• If the proxy check fails, ajQueue will no longer "advertise" itself to players (it will just say "the queue plugin" instead of "ajQueue". It will still say "ajQueue" to players with permissions)

See changes on github

• Fix a semi-rare error when a server is offline on bungeecord
• Catch null player in spigot-side command
• Will no longer auto-complete servers the player doesn't have permission to queue for
• Really fix the semi-rare error when a server is offline on bungeecord
• Added /ajq pausequeueserver command, which will temporarily not queue you when you are in queue-servers
• Add a cooldown to the queue command (configurable)
• Will no longer notify about an update if the update is already downloaded

See changes on github

• minor improvements to the spigot-side
• Throw a warning instead of an error if a player is queued when they arent connected
• Move server ping cache storage to the AdaptedServer instance
• Fixed colors codes not working in status placeholder in listqueues command
• Fixed an error that could happen when checking if a server is full
• Wont check joinfrom permission unless the player actually executed the command (/ajq send bypasses joinfrom now)
• Fix unnecessary server look up in default balancer
• Fix minigame balancer not checking if server is joinable
• Fixed send-instantly not bypassing check-last-player-sent-time
• Fixed supported-protocols not working with groups
• Fixed offline servers sometimes not being marked as offline on velocity
• Fixed send-all-when-back-online not working 99% of the time
• fix error with placeholders that could happen when player disconnects
• Deploy to modrinth

See changes on github

• change status placeholer in title to use the placeholder displays in the config
• Fix color in title status
• Added SERVER placeholder to wrong-version message
• fix rare concurrency error

See this on github

• retain online and whitelisted states when reloading servers
• Fix bungee plugin message handling being sync for no reason
• fix `require-permission` not being respected in /<server> commands
• Fixed some exceptions for server pings not being shows in pinger-debug
• Add 1.18 to protocol names list
• fix no args detected as 1 arg
• add kick-kicked-players

kick-kicked-players will kick players from the server if they are in a queue-server and they are kicked from the target server.

This will probably be my last update of 2021. Happy (almost) new year!

• Rewrote almost all of the plugin
• Now supports bungeecord and velocity
• All messages can now be disabled by setting them to a blank string
• Made it easier for me to add permission plugins. With this, the first other one ive added is UltraPermissions, although it hasnt been tested. I still recommend using LuckPerms!
• Send actionbars and queue scoreboard events slightly more often to give a bit of a buffer for laggy players
• New ajQueuePlus feature: stayqueued. Give a player the permission ajqueue.stayqueued.<seconds> and they will stay queued for <seconds> seconds after leaving the server.
• The rewrite fixes all the issues that could occasionally cause the proxy to crash.
• Changed some of the permissions. See the new permissions on the wiki
• Better reload handling. Instead of leaving already existing queues there, it will instead delete the queue, the re-make it and re-add any players who were queued.
  
• A whole lot of internal changes that should make some things better for me

The only thing you should have to change when updating from 1.x.x to 2.x.x is changing to the new permissions

• Added support for Adventure MiniMessage format in messages. The format can be found here
• More fixes that could cause cme

Reupload to fix not shading adventure correctly

• Fixed a bug that could crash the proxy
• Fixed the priority debug option not working

Re-uploaded to fix not loading on java 8

• Fixed an error that caused players to be added to the queue infinitely
• Fixed an error that would prevent bad players from being removed from the queue (relating to the previous error)

Re-uploading to (actually) fix it not running on java versions less than 11

• Fixed an error that caused players to be added to the queue infinitely
• Fixed an error that would prevent bad players from being removed from the queue (relating to the previous error)

Re-uploading to fix it not running on java versions less than 11

• Fixed an error that could happen if a player got kicked from a server then left the proxy
• Added a message that is sent to the player when they get queued for the server after getting kicked from it

Reupload to fix not loading on java 8

• (should) fix the servropriority permission
• Fixed console commands on spigot being ignored when they shouldnt
• Fixed auto-queue-on-kick reasons not being detected correctly
• Fixed an exploit that could allow players to send any message they wanted on the actionbar

Reuploaded because I forgot to update the version of ajqueue its based on

• Added command to pause a queue (will not send players in queues) and an option to prevent players from joining paused queues
• wait-time now supports decimals
• Added the %ajqueue_queuedfor_<server>% placeholder for the spigot side that returns the number of players queued for <server>
• added ajqueue.denyjoinfrom.<server> that prevents players from joining queues from <server>
• added send-all-when-back-online to the config
• Fixed a typo in the config

Reuploaded to fix the plugin not loading

• Added wait-after-online to the config which waits this amount of time after the server is back online before sending players. This is for if your server lags right after starting up and you want players to join after that lag (or near the end of it)
  

(reuploaded because I accidentally uploaded the free version)

• Fixed players who left/got kicked sometimes were not removed from the queue
• Added an option to the config to delay loading servers until after the server is loaded. Meant for if you have another plugin that loads servers that are not in bungee.yml
• Added an option to refresh the servers at an interval. Useful if you have a system that dynamically adds servers to bungeecord.

Also, the plugin was tested on 1.16 and works perfectly without any changes.

Released on spigot