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tragic

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Get Notified When Your Favorite BF1942 Maps Go Live!

Hey everyone,

Thanks to the incredible work of Owlcat, the BF1942 community now has a Discord bot that allows you to receive real-time notifications when your favorite maps start running on your favorite BF1942 servers. That means no more refreshing server browsers or missing out on your favorite maps.

This is a massive quality-of-life improvement for players that don’t have time to monitor server rotations. With a smaller but passionate community, tools like this are huge in helping us jump into the matches we enjoy most and hopefully boost server populations.

How it works:
You simply type /subscribe in the #map-alerts channel, and prompt will allow you to select the map & server from a drop-down menu. You can also add a minimum player count if you don't want to be notified if it's an empty server.
You will then receive a private message via Discord as soon as the maps go live on your selected servers.

Major kudos to Owlcat for building this and contributing something genuinely valuable to the community. Innovations like this breathe new life into the game we all love. I've personally been wanting a tool like this for years.

If you’re interested in getting set up here is the link to his Discord server: https://discord.gg/Xz8bTNbv7M

Winston Smith

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Re: Get Notified When Your Favorite BF1942 Maps Go Live!

Lol. That's pretty awesome!
Is Owlcat behind that real time website, too?

Black Mamba

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Re: Get Notified When Your Favorite BF1942 Maps Go Live!

Is there a GitHub for this?

owlcat

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Re: Get Notified When Your Favorite BF1942 Maps Go Live!

Is there a GitHub for this?

Unfortunately, there isn't one at the moment. I just pushed v1.1 of the bot, which includes some big improvements to how it works and a brand-new data system.

To anyone who has already configured thier alerts, because of this switch to a new data ingestion system, you'll need to reset any alerts you had configured. I know this is a hassle, and I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience!

If you have any questions or have feedback, feel free to send me a DM here or on Discord.

owlcat

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Re: Get Notified When Your Favorite BF1942 Maps Go Live!

Minor update this morning.

- Fixed a bug where servers with formatted names (e.g., italics) would not appear in the search results for the /subscribe command. All servers should now appear correctly when searching.

owlcat

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Re: Get Notified When Your Favorite BF1942 Maps Go Live!

Released a few new features today:

EW: /subscribe_server – Subscribe to ALL Map Changes
You can now subscribe to every map change on a specific server. Perfect for keeping an eye on rotations or for community map-alert channels.

Options: server, players_over (optional), channel (optional)

? UPDATE: /subscribe Now Supports Channel Alerts
By popular demand, /subscribe can now send alerts to a server channel—not just DMs—if you have the correct permissions.

Options: server, map_name, players_over (optional), channel (optional)

? NEW: /findgametype
Quickly find all servers running a specific gametype such as Conquest, CTF, TDM, etc.

Option: gametype (autocomplete)

? NEW: /alert_stats
Shows the Top 10 most-subscribed maps and servers across all users.

⏸️ NEW: /pause_alerts
Allows you to pause or unpause all of your subscriptions without deleting them.

Option: status (pause/unpause)

If there are any other features you would like added or think that would be beneficial, please let me know!

? NEW: Do Not Disturb (DND) Controls
You now have full control over when alerts can reach you. Set quiet hours, block alerts during sleep, work, or school—it's fully customizable.

/dnd set
Set a DND schedule to block alerts during specific days and times.

/dnd view
View your current DND schedule.

/dnd clear
Clear your DND schedule and resume normal alerts.

Install Instructions & link to GitHub is here: https://bf1942.online/tools/map-alert

Black Mamba

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Re: Get Notified When Your Favorite BF1942 Maps Go Live!

Thanks I’ll use it in my server.