Server Briefing

ServerBriefing
"What happened while I was gone?" - answered the moment you log back in.

ServerBriefing gives your admins and staff a personalized "while you were gone" report. Each configured player gets a briefing built from their own absence window, so someone who was offline for 20 minutes and someone who was offline for a week each see only what's relevant to them.

Features

• Personal absence windows - every recipient is tracked independently, never a shared "last briefing" timestamp
• Login summary - a chat summary on join, with a clickable [VIEW FULL BRIEFING] button
• Full GUI - a main menu with Server, Staff, and Incident sub-menus
• Player activity - joins, leaves, and peak concurrent players as summary counts, plus optional listing of first-time players
• Staff actions - configurable list of administrative commands (bans, kicks, mutes, whitelist, op/deop, gamemode, and more) so you can see what your team did while you were away
• Automatic incident detection
  • Sustained low TPS
  • Plugin error spikes (repeated SEVERE log entries from one plugin)
  • Unexpected server restarts
• Retention-aware - if your absence is longer than the retention window, the briefing says so instead of quietly showing an incomplete report
• Lightweight - SQLite storage, all database work runs off the main thread
• Tab-completion only suggests subcommands you actually have permission to use

Privacy-first by design
ServerBriefing is not a surveillance plugin. It never collects:

• Chat or private messages
• Block activity
• Player movement or locations
• Inventories
• Staff teleports or staff locations

Player join/leave activity is stored as aggregate counts, not a per-player log. Staff commands are only recorded if they appear on your configured tracked list; it is not a general command logger.

Requirements

• Paper or Purpur 26.3 (Spigot and Bukkit are not supported)
• Java 25
• LuckPerms is optional (soft dependency)

Quick Start

1. Drop the jar into your plugins folder and start the server
2. Open plugins/ServerBriefing/config.yml and add the players who should receive briefings under briefing-recipients
3. Run /brief reload
4. Have a recipient log out and back in after the minimum away time - they'll get their briefing

Commands and Permissions
/brief (alias /briefing) - see the Documentation tab for details.

Support
Found a bug or have a suggestion? Post in the discussion tab or leave a review. Please include your server version and any console errors.