On June 23, 2006 we released the first public beta of the PBBans Hub. The idea of the first multi-stream solution with live banning excited many of our members and it was a hit from the beginning. At first, it was a very basic system with a bare minimal streaming interface and no real user control. It was a basic streaming interface.
One year later our server count went from less than 200 repository servers to over 1200 hub streaming servers. This was a pleasant surprise for us as we never expected so many people to have an interest in the first year. Also over 95% of our streaming members switched over from the repository system to the PBBans Hub.
Today after two years, we are past the 4200 actively streaming mark with close to 5000 servers total. We have also made the repository a legacy method of streaming to PBBans. We have added many new features to the PBBans Hub such as Generic CVAR Scans, Generic BIND Scans, Cheat File Scanner, ban announcements, server greeting messages, and advanced league integration. This is just a few changes of the PBBans Hub itself.
Many things have changed at PBBans over the last 2 years and there will be many more to come. We would like to thank the community for your continued support and look forward to bringing you more cool features in the future.