Description
Overview
Boots is a lightweight, silent addon for WoW Classic Era that passively tracks your guild's activity by taking hourly snapshots of online members and sharing that data guild-wide.
All snapshots are broadcast via the guild channel, forming a distributed, peer-to-peer telemetry mesh. The more people who run it, the better coverage your guild gets.
🔍 What It Does
- ✅ Logs guild roster data hourly: name, level, class, and zone
- ✅ Broadcasts snapshots to all other users with the addon
- ✅ Merges incoming data into a shared, synchronized dataset
- ✅ Automatically tidies old logs every 30 days
- ✅ Designed to be passive — install it and forget it
📊 What It Enables
Designated leadership or technical members can export the collected data from their SavedVariables file to power external tools such as:
- 🟢 Heatmaps of class activity
- 🧭 Zone frequency maps (where your guild tends to hang out)
- 👥 Composition reports of truly active players
- 📈 Foot traffic trends and "boots on the ground" insights
This data can help officers plan raid times, monitor growth, and support long-term guild optimization.
⚙️ Commands
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
/boots status |
View current logging settings |
/boots toggle |
Enable or disable logging |
/boots tidy |
Manually remove logs older than 30 days |
/boots clean all |
Wipe all stored snapshot data |
/boots help |
Show help info and usage guide |
🔒 Privacy-Friendly
Boots only logs what is visible in the default guild roster — no whisper reading, no behavior tracking, no alt detection.
Just presence data, shared among addon holders, for the greater good of the guild.
This addon is a silent utility designed to improve guild health and coordination — especially when combined with a web-based visualizer or attendance dashboard.