Welcome. This is the manual for The Modding Community — the site where people publish mods, game development assets, servers and the communities built around them.
It is written for three different readers, and you probably only need one of them:
I want to use the site
Start here. What an account gets you, how the site is laid out, and how to publish your first item.
I want to understand a feature
What each kind of item actually is, what can be attached to it, and how servers, parties, reports and penalties work underneath.
I want to write code against it
Three HTTP APIs: one for scripting your own content, one for game servers and mods to report back, and one for the desktop app.
The short version
The site is built around content items. A mod, an asset, a server, an app, a collection, a community, a group and an article are all content items, and they share the same machinery: the same permissions, the same tags and categories, the same ratings, comments, follows and reports. Learn how one of them works and you have learned most of how all of them work.
Everything else hangs off that:
- Accounts own items and hold the settings that decide who may see what.
- Servers are content items with a live half — a scanner queries them every few minutes and records who is playing.
- Parties are groups of people playing together, optionally reported by the game itself through the integration API.
- Community and moderation — reports and penalties — applies to items and accounts alike.
- The APIs expose the same objects and enforce the same rules as the UI.
This documentation is versionless
It describes the site as it is deployed right now. Where a behaviour is configurable by staff, the page says so rather than quoting a number that will drift.