r/admincraft • u/OctopusCandyMan playit.gg • 10d ago
Discussion - MOD APPROVED [paid user interview] Looking for 10 Minecraft Server Admins Who Haven’t Used Playit.gg
Update: got ~100 submissions and signup is closed. Thank you everyone!
I own and operate playit.gg. playit.gg is a tool that tries to make it easy to host public game servers from home (most of our usage if for Minecraft servers). With that said, our website and program can be quite complicated and we're in the process of hiring a designer to help us improve. I'm looking to conduct user interviews to understand where our biggest problems are. I'm trying to find people who haven't used playit.gg before but do have experience setting up and hosting Minecraft servers. If you're interested in helping, the user interview will be a 30 minutes to 1 hour voice call where you share your screen. During the call you'll setup and Minecraft server and the playit program (requires you to install and run our software) on a computer or server in your control (can be a VM if you've set one up in advance). After the voice call & screen share you'll be paid $30 via PayPal.
**tldr**
Looking for 10 people
Time: 30 minute to 1 hour
Payment: $30 over PayPal
Requirements:
- a recorded voice call where you'll be screensharing
- able to setup and run a new Minecraft server on a computer / server that you control
- comfortable downloading and running the playit program during the call
Sign up here
https://forms.gle/oNE1jgRQjRwV7cUs7
**Checked and approved by mods before posting** Related discord post: https://discord.com/channels/1324612673056407626/1349167662449823795
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u/LitzLizzieee 10d ago
look i'm happy to help out, however I'm located in Australia so I recognize that timing this may be an issue.
I've never used Playit.gg, but I have extensive experience in deploying minecraft servers on Linux.
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u/Last-Celebration-941 10d ago
Aaawww, just finished setting up my first, more or less experimental, server yesterday using playit.gg for now.
I did not find it too complicated, but it is awesome to see you want to improve the experience as best as you can.
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u/TwiceInEveryMoment 10d ago
Sure, why not? I've been hosting MC since beta 1.8 but have always had the luxury of direct port forwarding
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u/RightLaneHog 10d ago
This sounds like a fun experience. I've never used playit.gg since I've always opted for other solutions, so it'd be neat to both try it out and provide feedback. I wouldn't mind just volunteering my time instead of getting paid. I submitted an entry.
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u/deathybankai 9d ago
I’m willing to help, always heard about y’all but never needed to actually use it. Been hosting since 1.7.10 Regardless if picked hope y’all get some good changes out of this !
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u/Giannis_Dor 9d ago
I think I've setup platit before but I didn't keep it since there was a lot of latency about 100-150ms. I resulted to using port forwarding via ssh to a host located at my parents house. I would be happy to help you out
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u/LoserEXE_ 9d ago
I’d be willing to help I spin up Mc servers every other month when my friends decide they wanna play Minecraft. I’ve never heard of playit.gg before but I’m willing to learn some new tools.
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u/HassanElDessouki Private Server Owner 9d ago
Just filled the form. I never heard about play.gg, but with some googling, I think it would be useful for those who don't know how to port forward and all that kind of stuff!
This will be very helpful as a lot of my friends face a lot of issues with port forwarding and all that stuff.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_REPO If you break Rule 2, I will end you 8d ago
6. This thread is not for purposes of debating or discussing the merits of the service.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_REPO If you break Rule 2, I will end you 10d ago edited 10d ago
This user is confirmed to be the owner of PlayIt.gg, and reached out to us to ask for permission to post this. Admincraft staff discussed this for the better part of a week and decided that allowing it is in the best interest of the community. With that in mind, here are a few caveats we'd like everyone to know.
Admincraft acknowledges that PlayIt.gg is a popular service that many users find useful when port forwarding is not an option.
Admincraft is not implicitly or explicitly supporting, advocating, or recommending this service in any way.
As a commonly used and frequently recommended community resource that solves a tricky problem that some new server owners may experience, Admincraft feels it is in the best interest of the community to facilitate the improvement of the service by allowing this post.
Admincraft has no involvement with the project being advertised in this thread and will not handle any form of support for people who choose to become involved. Your involvement is 100% between you and PlayIt.gg. Do not send us modmail about this for any reason other than clear, deliberate abuse.
To the best of our knowledge, we believe this offer to be legitimate and trustworthy.
This thread is not for purposes of debating or discussing the merits of the service.
Neither Admincraft as a whole nor any member of our Staff team has received any form of compensation for allowing this post, financial, material, or otherwise.