The possibilities for using the catalog are constantly being improved.

2020 Mar

• Anual cost of 720€. Extra cost of 230€ for bug fixing due to lost field data in new Drupal release
• 250 to 350 new labels each month and a lot of rework causes too much time in front of the computer
• No fun to continue with the catalog. A fultime job without any benefit. Many discussions with collectors who do not help or who do add labels in low quality.
• Bonus points can be earned for helping in the catalog & catalog is restricted only for 'helping members'
• 33,059 labels, 4,578 brands, 238 collectors
• 18,945 duplicates, 117K verifications

2019 Nov

• Each label has got a 'Trade Value' to compare the want- & request list not only by length
• 11 collectos who help in the cost
• 32,097 labels, 4,491brands, 223 collectors
• 17,523 duplicates, 112K verifications

2019 Apr

• New trade feature for special trade labels
• 29136 labels, 4362 brands, 210 collectors
• 13029 duplicates, 81K verifications

2018 Oct

• Infrastructure costs of 60€ per month. Database extends the 1GB and needs to be separated on a second server.
• Premium Membership is introduced for collectors who participate in the cost. Some functions and information of the catalog are moved to this user group
• 26972 labels, 4216 brands, 188 collectors
• 12084 duplicates, 71K verifications

2018 Feb

• Translation to Russia with the help of Elya Khrapovitskaya and translation into Low Saxon with the help of Sabine Krüger
• 24500 labels, 3875 brands, 140 collectors
• 9550 duplicates, 63K verifications

2017 Nov

• Year of issue is updated with help of 360 New Addition pages from Gerri (1995 - 2013). Missing labels from Gerri's collection are added to the catalog
• 24000 labels, 3800 brands, 135 collectors
• 9400 duplicates, 62K verifications

2017 Feb

• 13000 pictures in low qualety are replaced with best images
• 21500 labels, 3600 brands, 86 collectors
• 8100 duplicates, 53K verifications

2016 Aug

• Responsive Grid for all banana lables instad of fixed 5 columns
• 20,000 labels, 73 collectors

2016 Mar

• The huge collections of Costa Rica are added to the catalog: Luis, Walter, Max, Kevin, Pablo
• 18,500 labels, 58 collectors
• Labels are requested from a specific collector: 1:1 trades.

2015 Nov

• Chat included
• 17,000 labels, 49 collectors
• The collections of Michael Ebnet-Feit, Becky, Michael Riehl, Martin Schwember and Manfred are merged

2015 Jun

• Flip Book for many Magazines from John, Leee, Kathy and Gerry
• Flip Book for the new additions of a month

2015 Mar

• Tradelist now with "Requestlist" and "Wishlist", to ask for labels and see, what other collectors like to get in exchange.
• Comments of a banana label are also shown in it's catalog entry
• 20 registred users, 11,600 labels online

2015 Jan

• Adding a forum
• Upload new labels with predefined catalog entries

2014 Dec

• German and Spanish translation
• Promotion on Facebook
• 12 Collectors

2014 Aug

• First friendly user: Bill Martz, Peter Niessen, Klement Cepon
• 10,000 labels online

2014 Jun

• Plain vanilla Drupal 7.x installation
• Start implementation of "Catalog of Banana Stickers"