Anyone know what the deal is with all these random community servers?

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Saw a bunch of these duplicate servers whilst trying to find a new retake server, and at first thought it was some sort of glitch. But after looking up both the github links mentioned (here and here) it looks like someone is exploiting the same issue they're complaining about in an attempt to get it noticed and fixed? I also found this post which explains the issue, essentially servers are using a source plugin to create 'ghost' servers in order to have more results on the community browser so they can receive more traffic. This issue seems to be most prevalent in Europe however, and while one of the servers is located in Germany, my ping to it is <40 somehow? Not really sure how the whole situation works.

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Saw a bunch of these duplicate servers whilst trying to find a new retake server, and at first thought it was some sort of glitch. But after looking up both the github links mentioned (here and here) it looks like someone is exploiting the same issue they're complaining about in an attempt to get it noticed and fixed? I also found this post which explains the issue, essentially servers are using a source plugin to create 'ghost' servers in order to have more results on the community browser so they can receive more traffic. This issue seems to be most prevalent in Europe however, and while one of the servers is located in Germany, my ping to it is <40 somehow? Not really sure how the whole situation works.

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