Opened my ports and it’s a ghost town. Anyone down to play?

bnet is dead, much easier to find people to play with using devilutionX (no need to open ports or any other voodoo)

I know you one of the authors of DevilutionX. And I ask anyway. Are there is some else ways to play online? Official still alive but empty. DevilutionX alive and not empty. Did it MOST alived way to play? I know you want and try promote it. Did that work? Or did that only one way at all?

I mean. There is some offline mods. And maybe some online too? And main point, there is Devilution. Your project is forked from "forked". Did old project have online features and what you think how many ppl can be there? Or in any else projects/ways to play.
Can you say you succeed promoting DevilutionX as best way and did you reach most populated goal? War2ru for Warcraft 2 nowadays really achieve that goal and have waaay more random ppl to play than official Bnet. As I get it there is war2com alternative mentioned on forums. I don't think they more populated.
BTW, official Bnet for War2 is almost died after GOG release. A bit later with unavailability of servers, same for Diablo 1. Before GOG release War2 bnet have more players than war2ru, opposite to what they say on community resources.

Diablo is a game where more important to make a party first. Less ppl ready to play waiting in Lobby for randoms.
So although I did not check D1 here since first release, I'm sure there is 0-1 online on Bnet. I agreed DevilutionX is better way to find random coop. Did it best way for that? I accept any answer as it was said by player (neutrality).
There is no alternatives at all? Others fan made Projects and older Devilution are offline mods and everyone already play DevilutionX? I ask cause I'm somewhere few years back from now in community things.

Your message/question isn't super clear to me. There are other ways to play online, like Tchernobog, and alternative networks. But from what I have seen DevilutionX is both the easiest, has the most players sticks closest to the original gameplay.

DevilutionX never had a goal of being the most populated, just to work well and remains faithful to the original gameplay.

It's worth noting that Battle.net is often down, which could contribute to its low player count. Additionally, DevilutionX does not currently have a lobby, but there is a Discord chat that many people use instead.

@QWEEDDYZ jesus christ please use a translaator, I'm not going to waste my time trying to read that garbage

I assked chatGPT to make sens of it, assuming it did a good job here are some more answeres. I think you are confused about how Devilution fits in to things. It's no relevant for players, it's a tool for being able to improve things. I will produce an exe identical to the original so there is no point in doing so. Like I said, that isn't a specific goal, but more players appear to be using DevilutionX for multiplayer then Bnet. It's unclear what kind of answer you would accept. Again Devilution is not a mod as that was never the point of that project. DevilutionX is the project for making something for players.

Some more chatGPT stuff:

This might be concerning:

I would like to buy Diablo 2 Resurrected, but if Battle.net is often down then that might just be an exercise in frustration since you have to download the Battle.net client and be online to play even single player. Would I be wasting my money if I bought Diablo 2 Resurrected? Or am I misunderstanding which bnet we're talking about here?

D1 kind of has it's own bnet, I wouldn't expect it to behave like this in other blizzard games because that'd sound unacceptable but then I'm not playing d2 and not planning to ever give blizzard a single $ after years of treating their playerbase like crap :)

Diablo 1, StarCraft 1 and WarCraft 2 are on legacy Bnet 1.0, the other games are on Bnet 2.0 which is still maintained so things are much better there.

Okay. Thanks.