Northline RP Community Portal v2.9.21

Server status accuracy

- online with players connected - online but quiet / zero players - offline / stale server signal - unknown / data unavailable

• Added a dedicated server runtime status layer so the portal distinguishes between:
• The public Status page now shows Offline instead of presenting an offline server as simply 0 online.
• The homepage server card now also reflects offline state instead of only showing player count.
• /api/status now returns a runtime object with state, source, last signal time, and freshness metadata.
• Added optional support for APE_RP_DATA_PATH/server_status.json as a future game/server heartbeat file. If present, it is preferred over connection-log inference.
• Added config.status.offlineAfterMinutes so stale connection logs can be tuned without code changes.

Notes

If no server_status.json heartbeat exists yet, the portal infers offline state when there are no connected players and the latest connection-log signal is older than the configured threshold.