Edited sentence: A search may indicated high availability of a particular file, yet it may actually be nowhere to be found due to the end point of the link (often a clan website) being no longer used.After the game was moved over to the Steam platform, some of the older admin software did not work properly and the authors had moved on to other projects, as Team Fortress Classic was already several years old.Another issue is that many of the links for bots, waypoints, maps and other items for Team Fortress Classic are dead links, but are still indexed by the search engines.Another problem for server administrators is the lack of updates for 3rd party support software.In order to play Team Fortress Classic, users must now use the Steam platform.Initially, there was a great deal of software written for both Windows and Linux server platforms.Steam remain controversial issues within the Team Fortress Classic and Half-Life communities.Team Fortress Classic can no longer be played on the WON network (unless a player knows the IP of the server he or she wants to play on) as Valve Software has shut it down.The advantages and disadvantages of WON (and its user-created replacement WON2) vs.The result is that most 3rd party programs written for Team Fortress Classic administration no longer work and only a few Windows versions have been updated to work with the Steam platform.This has been compounded by the release of Team Fortress 2, which was released on 10 October 2007.This is particularly an issue for Linux administrators.This software may have diminished interest in maintaining and updating Team Fortress Classic.While many (but not all) of these programs were licensed under the GNU GPL, it is not trivial to modify programs that were written by someone else, possibly with less than disciplined coding skills