Hub

task.spawn(function()
    for _, s in network.browse('featured') or {} do print(s.name, s.players) end
    for _, e in hub.experiences() do print(e.slot, e.experience) end
    for _, h in network.instances() or {} do print(h.name, h.players) end
    print(network.online())
end)

• hub.role(player) returns the player’s rank on Minefort: "owner", "admin", "moderator" or "builder", and nil for everyone else. It also takes a uuid, with or without dashes.
• Minefort sends the ranks every minute. Anywhere but a hub, they are nil.
• hub.role(player) returns the player’s rank on Minefort: "owner", "admin", "moderator" or "builder", and nil for everyone else. It also takes a uuid, with or without dashes. Minefort sends the list every minute, so a new rank reaches the hub within one. Anywhere but a hub, it is nil.
• hub.experiences() returns a list of {slot, experience, title, pitch, icon, banner, players}. experience is the name /play takes. A slot that is not in the list has no experience.
• A banner is a 1024×512 PNG its creator uploaded and Minefort checked: 8 by 4 maps. Read it with http.get(banner, { cache = 86400 }):image(); a new banner has a new URL, so the cache never shows an old one.
• hub.rent(player, slot, product, experience) offers a portal of the grounds for Gems, like shop.prompt: product is one of the hub’s rentals, such as portal_24h, and experience the name /play takes of any published experience, which the portal then leads to. It returns a request id, or nil; shop.on_paid hands the purchase over. Renting your own portal again adds time, and may leave experience out to keep what it shows.
• hub.point(player, slot, experience) turns the player’s own live portal to another published experience, as often as they like. It returns whether it did.
• Minefort decides who may rent or point what: a stand someone else holds, or a name that is no published experience, is a no. Anywhere but its hub, every answer is no.
• Minefort keeps the lists up to date. The first call of experiences waits at most two seconds for them, so call it from a task.