2001/2002
- becoming aware of the game BZFlag
- beginning to play online
- being amazed by the Java applet solution of MrApathyCream that generated a list of online BZFlag servers (most useful information plus online player data)
2002
- receiving conceptional and detail support from MrApathyCream, JeffM and blast on how the server list and communication to the bzfs works
- spending countless hours of analysing client-server and server-listserver communication with Ethereal (now called Wireshark)
- becoming aware of Perl prototype scripts to contact server list and server data in the sourceforce.net BZFlag repository
- creating a PHP script that performed server list and bzfs requests and processed the response to show all data as HTML page
2003
- using a dyndns-address and home server to provide own website with first PHP script presenting BZFlag online data (still as live requests)
- extending BZFlag-related data
- registration of domain strayer.de and placing the website on a friend's webserver (in a real datacenter - no longer at home)
- splitting server list and server request(ed) information
2004-05-23 00:00:00 UTC
- collecting and storing server data
mid/end of 2005
- decision to create a website that combines the stability and neutral design of Noodleman's "got stats?" (official PHP-based online player/server web page @bzflag.org) and combining that with the BZFlag leagues' information like david_v did on his web pages (until final outage of the Java-based solution in 2005-10) and additional BZFlag information (until then only available on my private website strayer.de)
...in combination with a long-lasting player/server data history (longevity by design)
2006-01-21 14:16:00 UTC
- collecting and storing player data
2006-02
- adding initial league support (teams, players, match servers); data-wise provided by menotume (and later on by the other leagues' administrators)
around 2006-05/06
- bringing BZstats alive by presenting collected data via the subdomain bzstats.strayer.de
2006-10
- moving BZstats on the server of BZFlag player [dmp] (who then hosted it for serveral years without charging me anything)
- implementing generic BZstats API and request setup page (no longer in use - lasted for one year only, due to low interest)
...since then, providing data provisioning scripts for different players and their purposes
2006-10-27 17:10:03 UTC
- resetting data collections as a new beginning (due to data inconsistencies caused by code bugs)
2006-11
- implementing myBZbuddies and the use of the global BZBB login
2006-12/2007-01
- transferring BZFlag-related information from private website to BZstats
presumably 2007-06/07
- taking over the technical support/administration of the 1vs1 BZFlag League and sharing the BZBB data
(Although, both websites are separated in code and data, BZstats reuses the BZBB forums' user data gathered by the 1vs1 site to reduce the forum's load.)
2009-03
- BZBB user data history (in combination with 1vs1 global BZBB login support)
2012-05/06/07
- working on a cross-server-chat (XSC) bzfs plug-in that allows to chat with players across different bzfs as well as with web-based front-ends and providing notification services (similar to IRC and IRC bots) and running it on test servers, kindly provided by brad
...work discontinued due to lack of time and a nasty memory leak (and a slowly decreasing number of players)
2017-05/06
- moving BZstats on an own server ([dmp] thankfully took care of the setup)
...meanwhile and since then...
- several fixes (code bugs) and updates, such as 1vs1 tournament support, more stats and graphs, server owner gathering, geoIP-support to determine server locations, automated repository data exports (flags, keys, commands, options, changelog etc.)
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