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I'm not trying to tell you how to do your stuff, but I find that people are easier to help when both parties are sober.
And if this wasn't your first time here you'd know most of my posts are not pointless (granted, you are right, this one kind of was).

I have tried to run a server myself with Assist SM, but I always ran into problems, but I'm pretty sure it was to do with closed ports on my end.

I'm pretty sure there are already numerous threads on setting up servers with Assist Server Manager. Have you tried anything that's already been suggested?

And you said you've been using Assist for a long time, does that mean Assist client or does it include the server? It's hard to understand (for me at least) from your initial post whether or not this was your first try at a server with Assist.

All in all the more information you can provide the easier it is for people to help you. Such information includes, but is not limited to, your OS, whether or not you've opened the correct ports (there's a topic about that somewhere around the forums) and whether or not you've added an exception in the firewall.

Additionally, I've seen Merlin write a lot about server stuff and he always mentions that you have to start the server when Assist client is not running,

Also, and I'm not sure about this, but there might be a problem with you joining your own server, did someone else also try to join it?

To be honest, I have a similar problem. I can only see this page through a proxy when on my phone. It used to work fine, but for a few days now I've had problems.

-On phone + proxy atm

That looks all good, but IMHO it's too long for a newcomer to read.
Plus it contains stuff that is irrelevant today.

But like I said, we would (IMHO) benefit from having an about page at startup, whatever it looks like, ad long as you get info about what you're joining here.

Your account has been activated

The version on the main page is wrong again. It says 8.06, although we're on 8.08.

Something I wrote up real quick. Give your opinion on it. Also, I don't know the start date of the project.
And feel free to add/edit it to your liking if anyone can be bothered.

America's Army
America's Army (AA) is a computer game developed by the United States Army as a recruiting tool. It is financed by the US government and is free to download for anyone.

The first version (1.0) was release  on July 4 2002. America's Army: Special Forces (version 2.0) was released on November 6 2003. The game runs on the Unreal Engine. There have been many updates with additional features as well as maps.

America's Army supported 3 platforms (Windows, Mac and Linux) up to version 2.5 (released 13 October 2005). Later releases dropped the support for Mac and Linux.

Since 1st of January 2012 the US Army dropped official support for America's Army 2 and thus shut down their authentication servers as well as server browser.


Assist
Assist is a community run application that enables players to play America's Army 2.5 on 3 platforms (Windows, Mac and Linux). It works together with a stat tracking page (battletracker.com) in order to provide authentication and honor tracking as well as it's own server browser in order for players to play America's Army after the US army shut down official support.

The project was started on <x date. I don't know this one> and has since come to version 8.08. It features various anticheat technologies never before seen in AA in order to maintain a level playing field as well as provides a means for creating a server (including Assist Server manager).

In addition to letting players play the original version of AA 2.5, the Assist developer team has worked hard in order to add features to the version of the game that were added in later versions by the original developers. Those features include SAI (Situation Awareness Indicator or simply a minimap), shortened flash times, maps from both later versions of AA 2.x as well as AA 3 and also custom maps, just to name a few.

Assist also comes with a fairly active community gathering at aao25.com with a forum full of often extremely helpful members. If you have a problem regarding Assist or AA, your best bet would be to get help there.

That's a really good initiative in my opinion!

And he did bring up some pretty valiant points regarding visiting this site for newcomers who have no idea what AA is.

I think the front page could benefit from having a button like 'about' which would talk about AA in general and Assist in a couple of paragraphs.

I've never run any games on Linux either, but I hear it works

Good luck!