History
This page will tell you what all the "hlstats" software are about.
The first development of HLStats was started by Simon Garner in the year 2001.
It was hosted at Sourceforge.net as project HLStats.
This was the home for HLStats for nearly 9 years.
In the year 2004 Simon Garner stopped the development of HLStats.
The support cuntinued and UnitedAdmins came into play.
They took over HLStats and developed it further until the year 2007.
UnitedAdmins was falling apart in this time and the interrest for futher development
went down.
This was the time where Banana took over HLStats.
He never stopped to continue the support and development of HLStats.
The development went slowly since he was and currently is the only one who
actively develops HLStats.
Somewhere in the time hlstats-community.net went down and with it a good place
where users got support and addons. This was a key moment for Banana.
He created hlstats-community.org, since the .net Domain was not afordable.
He slowly rebuild the community and developed HLStats further.
The project moved from sf.net to gihub. To a new and fresh place.
The story about the "other" HLStats
Since HLStats is licenced with the GPL licence everryone can contribute
and modify HLStats in any way.
This was the time HLStatsX came up. A former HLStats user and supporter took
HLStats and made a fork called HLStatsX. Tobi created something different
and based the support for Source Games only. He build a strong community around
HLStatsX and made the move to make money of it. HLStatsX is not really opensource
anymore. A sad move...
This is way HLStatsX:CE came up and is still alive. Former HLStatsX users where
disappointed about the way HLStatsX went and are now happy to have a opensource
HLStatsX fork again.
HLStats is the base for two successfull forks. HLStatsX and HLStatsX:CE and perhaps
some other not so successfull software which I do not know.
The story about Banana
Well Banana is with HLStats from version .99 and up.
He noticed HLStats at a LAN Part and "fell into love with it" ;-)
He started as a supporter at the originial hlstats.net forums and soon bacame
a respected person. Simon Garner was happy to have him.
As Simon Garner stopped the development and support and UA showed interrest into
taking over the project, he said Banana have to be in the new team.
So Banana went with HLStats into UnitedAdmins. Developed the software with others
further and stepped up the ladder within UA untill the final and last realy Admin
of UA from the "old" UA Team. But this is really another story....
He was there as Tobi took HLStats and made HLStatsX and helped there to support
the new community.
He was there as psychonic and lart started to fork HLStatsX into HLStatsX:CE.
(psychonic and lart are not working together, they started speratly to fork
HLStatsX. psychonic was more successfull with its HLStatsX:CE)
So basically the true and genuie HLStats is the HLStats. No X no CE or whatever.
Its home is here at hlstats-community.org. From here you can get all the things
you need about HLStats.
