Hello,
Thanks to JD lurking on the mod portal, we, as Factorio communities, found about this project today and collectively would like to know who's behind the project and talk to you :) Especially since our logos are plastered on the website as friends and nobody of us on that list have any idea who's behind it :)

You probably know who the community leaders are and we talk to each other, so we would like to get in touch via private channels if you want to keep this thing without a specific username behind the project. There are some questions about the .exe file safety and things like that, so people are a bit skittish downloading and running it :) It could also help with additional development and some integrations since we do a lot of cool stuff for our communities and Clusterio team (I'm part of it and I'm the one behind the FMMO YT channel) we have lots of stats collecting ourselves, there there is a point of contact there for some interaction.

I'll let other community leaders sign here for themselves if they are interested.
/signed FMMO & Clusterio team representative

Hi,
Didn't you get the email that was sent to factoriommo(a)gmail.com this monday? I'll paste the content here as well:

Hi,
We have created the 'Factorio Leaderboard' mod and the website FactorioLeaderboard.com to give the community something more to strive for after they have launched the first rocket!

Each game gets ranked based on how many rockets that have been launched and how many aliens has been killed. The mod and website have the potential to do a lot more interesting stuff with the statistics from the game. But before we continue developing the mod, we would like to see if the community has a big enough interest in a leaderboard-mod.

We are now trying to get more people from the Factorio Community to discover it, but we could really use some help! It would be awesome if you could try it out and maybe feature it in a video and share a link to our website.

Could that be possible?

As a thank you, we can add a link to your youtube/twitch/website/discord on the first page of FactorioLeaderboard.com

Best regards,
The Development Team
FactorioLeaderboard.com

Well, now I see it :)

But anyway, while we understand the need to keep the public part as is, on the backend we wold like to actually talk to you live on Discord, since we have questions and concerns :) We can't really get behind a project that we have no idea what's behind it and who.
Like we found out there was a user on Discord with this username before, but now we can't find it on any server. Makes us wonder and suspicious :) So yeah, we'd like to be poked on Discord :)

Hi i got the email and was very much interested in checking out the page etc, but tonight i saw i had to download a .exe and im sorry without being able to see the source code and potentially compile it myself I stopped and asked around to see if anyone knew the creators behind FactorioLeaderboard.com

Hello,
This seams like a really cool project and we would love to see it gain more users; the example dashboard looks great for being able to check your base while you aren't at your PC. However, we share similar concerns about requiring users to install a service onto their computer when we don't know the team behind the project.

/signed ExplosiveGaming.nl Senior Admin

I understand that running an unknown .exe might raise safety concerns for some people, and it should. We don't mind if people decompile it to see how it works. I don't really use Discord but I just registered FactorioLeaderboard.com#9684 so hopefully no one can use that nickname any more.

I'm working on a update for the client, but I will check in with you in a couple of days. :)

Best regards,
The Development Team
FactorioLeaderboard.com

Morning,
We are also really interested in your idea, but there are many things we really can't find out. We know it's possible to decompile the source, but that's also not our goal. Often the code for such projects is open because we are cautious for our machines and our players.
I am sure it would even interest many peoples, but the best is maybe to do a Github or something like that. If you are concerned for the copyrights, and all that Factorio is a pretty open community, and no one will steal your code, they would simply do it better.

We don't want to bring you frustration maybe you worked hard on this project, and you invested much time, but as always security goes first mainly when touching services, SO files or local GPO modifications.

The idea is fantastic, and I am sure if you can simply put a bit of light on how it works, it would be awesome. Because we don't know if you are querying using the mod, using the save or even queries by piping them.

Every community you saw in those posts have stats, so we are interested, and I am sure we'd love to help, but we need simply need some light on this.

/signed Owner JAPC, Representative Clusterio & Factorio Olympics

Did you talk to the different communities who's logos you've used on your website? I'm part of some of those, and I made some of those logos, so I'm surprised I've not heard anything before earlier today.

Hi,
We have no problem with sharing the client code. It's just a service that sends the statsfile, that the mod creates, to our server. But it might not be on GitHub, because we use TFS. But as I wrote before, it will be in a couple of days. :)

@Zr4g0n - I sent an email to everyone except Redmew, Comfy and Vueltero, because I couldn't find a contact email. Did you make any of their logos?

Best regards,
The Development Team
FactorioLeaderboard.com

Hi everyone!
Sorry it took such a long time, but now the source code is available to download from the website. It is written in C# and you can compile it yourself using Visual Studio. Hope this makes more of you willing to try the service now!

Best regards,
The Development Team
FactorioLeaderboard.com