History
The interface over the years¶
HD Admin is a project we began back in 2016 and one we've been lucky to be able to continue working on full-time since:
2017
2019
2019 (2)
2024
2024 (2)
2026
2026 (2)Credit to Muneeb for the graphic
Timeline¶
| Year | What happened |
|---|---|
| 2016 | Ben starts work on an admin panel for his "HD Minigames" |
| 2017 | After repeated requests from friends, "HD Admin" is born and released to the Roblox Creator Store |
| 2019 | The major Classic rebuild releases |
| 2019 | The idea for a ground-up re-write forms at RDC 2019 |
| 2020-2023 | The re-write begins, first called "HD Admin V3" and then called "Nanoblox" (yes confusing, apologies), growing into three years of full-time work. Development is paused in 2023 for financial constraints |
| 2020-2024 | Consistent updates to Classic, including feature improvements, bug fixes and security patches, alongside advocacy to make Roblox's Creator Store ecosystem fairer for creators |
| 2024 | v1 releases in December, the start of six months spent modernising Classic |
| 2025 | v1 is adopted by some of Roblox's largest games like "Steal a Brainrot". That income funds the finishing of the re-write, now named v2 |
| 2026 | v2 Beta releases on 24 August |
You can find these different versions at the HD Admin Store.
We made an oopsie¶
There have been four versions of HD Admin over the years...
| Version | When | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Original | 2016 to 2019 | The first system |
| Classic | 2019 to 2024 | The 2019 rebuild which is what most people grew up with |
| v1 | 2024 onwards | Classic after its 2024 modernisation which will be supported until 2028 |
| v2 | 2026 onwards | The current system which is a complete re-write we started in 2020 |
... but we've referred to them by different names which has created some confusion. Our apologies 🙈
| The name you saw | What we call it today |
|---|---|
| HD Admin V1 | Original |
| HD Admin v0 | Original |
| HD Admin V2 | Classic, or v1 from 2024 |
| HD Admin V3 | v2. This was the first name for the re-write |
| Nanoblox | v2. This was the next name for the re-write |
"Nanoblox" is what we originally planned to call what is now "HD Admin v2", a complete re-write of HD Admin. We began it back in 2020, but it's only now that we finally had the funding and time to finish it.
Over this time and from feedback from various people, it became clear that "Nanoblox" was a confusing rename of HD Admin, and that "HD Admin v2" was a clearer name. It also coincided with other applications like TopbarPlus and ZonePlus taking off, so we made the decision to use Nanoblox as the name of our company and collection of software instead of the name of the admin system.
So what you might have come to know as Nanoblox is now fully complete and released as HD Admin v2. The v2 Beta came out on 24 August 2026.
The version numbers changed for a similar reason. The 2019 rebuild was called "HD Admin V2" because it replaced the 2017 original, which made the re-write "V3". When we returned to it in 2025 we counted the system everyone was already running as v1, and that left v2 as the name for the re-write.
Info
If you see "HD Admin V3" or "Nanoblox" in an old post, it means HD Admin v2. If you see "HD Admin V2" in a post from before 2025, it means what we now call Classic.
Pushing for a fairer Creator Store¶
We love creating tools for the marketplace. We were fortunate early on to receive an income from HD Admin, which made it possible to work full-time on software and to create applications like TopbarPlus and ZonePlus. Applications like these take thousands of hours to create and maintain, and Roblox's 2020 third-party-sales restrictions took away most of our ability to earn from them.
We've spent the years since asking Roblox to change this, alongside many other marketplace creators. You can find our main proposals here:
You can share your own memories of HD Admin on this forum post ❤️
