One of the nice things about hyperlobby was...

[Warhound]

The flaw is here, "Hyperlobby can only connect and monitor pilots that join via the Hyperlobby".
All Seeing Eye (RIP) and Xfire have no problem showing every server and their connected # of clients, letting you connect to them irrespective if the server is hosted on HL, through them or in any other way.

On the CLOD subject..going by your words my guess is 1C softclub want money from hyperlobby as a 3rd party who makes profit (donations) from piggybacking on CLOD?
Sad evolution but it's all too common these days and in a way understandable even if I wish it wasn't so.
IF so (for all I know they just have to wait for the SDK or there's some other obstacle) and there are really alot of people who love HL and want it to support CLOD. Jiri/HL should set up a webpage with a counter towards the goal (price of the licensingfee) and see how much support they can muster, with the withdrawals done once the goal is reached.

A word from the devs about how they see CLOD interacting with 3rd party apps and mods wouldn't go amiss in a future update. But isn't to be expected soon considering everything still seems to be very hectic right now... we'll have to wait for CLOD to succeed and things to calm down at the office.