The DropTracker began as a hobby project in 2021, after many years of manually performing the same types of processing that the system does automatically now, such as:
- Automatically screenshotting & submitting valuable drops and other achievements to a clan's Discord server.
- Allowing players in a clan to instantly track inside their group Discord server by simply installing the game plugin.
- Maintain an accurate, up-to-date version of every single submission ever received in an easily-digestible format to be exported to .csv files, or into other applications
- Create "Loot Leaderboards" to display the top players in a specific clan based on the amount of loot they've received in the target timeframe
This project also consisted of a number of other moving parts, such as:
- An in-depth integration with XenForo; a high-end forum/community software based in PHP.
- Automatic updates to GitHub based on changes to the server code or internal webhook configurations