Habbo's Fansite List

[NeverSkem]

I See this news on ClubHabbo ^_^

Habbo have now added a list of every site that's registered on their mailing list to the Habbo.com website.

Link: http://www.habbo.com/community/fansites

Although this isn't anything new for ex-official fansite owners, I imagine it's nice to know that your fansite is linked from Habbo's website if you own one http://www.clubhabbo.net/images/smilies/emoticon_smile.png

Thread closed by Chris (Forum Super Moderator): Due to bump!

[SackRace]

hmmm theres alot of them so will be quite hard for people to pick.

[JerseySafety]

been there for awhile :L

sad that theres no more official fansites :(

[Zuth]

http://www.habboreception.tk/ - Really? I've heard people are making them just to get badges...

[Samantha]

Yeah saw this on the page yesterday there was loads even some I.didn't know existed.

[geo]

It's quite annoying that there are really crappy ones being made just so they can get a badge! Seems pointless to go to that effort.
Zuth; that one is awful..

[Samantha]

Could people just mAke a web's one just to be classed as one?

[Zuth]

It's quite annoying that there are really crappy ones being made just so they can get a badge! Seems pointless to go to that effort.
Zuth; that one is awful..

Its stupid, you see people like David putting months and months of hard work into a site and then they let people like that who've just made it in a matter of hours.

[Aiden]

I don't like the list because if some one really wants a new fansite they will go to the events :P

[Pigperson]

Why are there so many :L Habbox seems less special now and why are we under US, it should be like EN because it's english speaking but yeh.

Will

[David]

http://www.habboreception.tk/ is my favourite, gonna resign from habbox for this one.

[xxMATTGxx]

Tweet @Fansites_Jason and complain/share your views in regards of the list! :P

www.twitter.com/Fansites_Jason

[Jurv]

it's strange how we're under the us list but at least we're on there, haha!

[=Lizzy]

some of those erm how to put it are not too good
its nice that they are being advertised but surely habbox and others are better and yeah. Dave.; what is that

no disrespect just saying my views x

[Plucked]

Why's the site "habboland.net" on there twice? And tryhabbo.net - that site is closed down. Bit awk...?

[Amberr]

wow didnt realise there was that many.

[beth]

it's just a joke so those people with their .tk site aren't actually paying any money towards their site, they could **** users over and just disappear hahhaa.

[Nick]

Theres a lot of them.. Tryhabbo is there but it will redirect to a new fansite/url :S

[Aaron]

Yeah I saw this list a week or two ago, interesting alright that anyone can make a site now and receive the fansite badge..

[Plucked]

Just sent jason a tweet regarding the list, hopefully when he returns from holiday it'll get updated and checked :)

[Jazz]

some of them arent even worthy to be called a website let alone a fansite

[NeverSkem]

http://army-news.com (http://army-news.com/)
http://www.habbogamers.nl.ae/
http://www.habbofeeling.nl/
http://bighabbo.nl/
Why This Fansite are Under US?

[Suspective]

Why This Fansite are Under US?

Because Habbo are to lazy to place them under the right category.

army-news is the silliest name I've ever heard for a fansite.

[Cerys]

There's way too many.

Maybe habbo could create a small section at the top of the screen showing the ex official fansites? Or just bring back official-ness xD

[xxMATTGxx]

Sorry for a bump but I thought I would post this here as it is related to some of the complaints in regards of crap sites being added! This was just tweeted a few minutes ago:


IMPORTANT FANSITE UPDATE - Amended Fansite Criteria

Fansites,

I wanted to first and foremost thank you for all the enthusiasm on the Fansite project so far! I have looked through hundreds of sites and we are constantly updating our mailing list.

While we're excited to see that there is a lot of excellent Fansites out there, we have unfortunately also uncovered some that are of very poor quality. It might seem as though some have set up fake Fansites only to achieve the in-game badge, but with no intention of updating them with news.

So as you can probably appreciate, we have a few things to organize and work through before we can grant the promised in-game badge and VIP Club membership to Fansite owners. The first thing on our agenda is an audit (check) of all the Fansites on our list.

Fansite Audit
We will be carrying out site checks immediately on all of the sites on our mailing list. Following this, we will run a new audit every 3 months.

Because there is such a varying level of quality between the Fansites, we decided on a list of criteria that will help us determine whether your site is qualifies to remain on the mailing list. See below:

Fansite Criteria:
• Must regularly publish Habbo related news to fans
• Must not publish news unrelated to the Habbo product
• Must contain no dead links
• Must contain inbound links to the Habbo site (Idea: from on the Fansite badge supplied by us?)
• Radio sites are required to branch out and contain news headers and links (relating to our Habbo updates).
• No templated domain names (blogs templates) .tumblr, .wordpress, .altervista, .tk, .blogger etc. Please use a clean domain name.
• Optional: Sites must contain links to Habbo's Facebook and Twitter channels.

Note: Habbo has the final say on what sites remain on the mailing list

When the final list is approved by us, we will hand out the in-game badges, the promised VIP Club membership - this will take a few weeks.

If you have any questions, please let me know!

Have great weekends!

Many thanks

Jason

[MKR&*42]

Sorry for a bump but I thought I would post this here as it is related to some of the complaints in regards of crap sites being added! This was just tweeted a few minutes ago:

Oh that's quite good criteria aha, I've seen quite a few fansites (some of them rather popular) who don't publish Habbo news, so that criteria could cut down on quite a lot. Good to see the number is going to be reduced again, there's far too many to keep track of

" Must not publish news unrelated to the Habbo product" - Good thing we stopped posting real life news? lol.

[xxMATTGxx]

Oh that's quite good criteria aha, I've seen quite a few fansites (some of them rather popular) who don't publish Habbo news, so that criteria could cut down on quite a lot. Good to see the number is going to be reduced again, there's far too many to keep track of

" Must not publish news unrelated to the Habbo product" - Good thing we stopped posting real life news? lol.

Some fansites aren't happy by the looks of it!

[MKR&*42]

Some fansites aren't happy by the looks of it!

Hardly surprising, but I don't blame Sulake for excluding fansites who don't post Habbo news - the fansite is practically useless without it. A site like, I believe it's ClubHabbo? (the fansite that went to a forum) shouldn't really be considered a fansite if it only provides a forum.

Last time I checked (Feb. time) 3 or 4 of the previous official fansites (before that status was axed) didn't even post news at all.

[Samantha]

I don't agree that only Habbo news should be posted, if I wanted to bring back new topics in news in the future does that mean I can't? People want to know more than just Habbo news. I don't mean the sort of news that could be in the current affairs either.

[Nick]

Finally, they are cleaning it up. So this VIP Membership, does it go to matt or what im confused by why they are even giving it out for.

[Samantha]

Nick; think it's the 3 who get the badge not sure though.

[xxMATTGxx]

Finally, they are cleaning it up. So this VIP Membership, does it go to matt or what im confused by why they are even giving it out for.

The VIP actually only goes to one person and that's up to the owners/management of each Fansite. They are giving the VIP out as a thank you more than anything else I believe.

[Seikou]

lol at some of the sites on there, the only fansites on the list should be good quality ones

[xxMATTGxx]

Update:


FANSITE UPDATE: Thanks for the meeting yesterday we are going to tweak a few more things, based on your feedback. Its hard to have a conversation with a lot of people fighting (each other) and trolling in the meeting. I had to mute the room to make announcements (not to silence you).

Historically fansites programs were not consistent in each country. Some countries had official / unofficial sites. I know that fansites used to work with site producers from different countries, but we no longer have site producers, so we are operating a global and fair system, through me. I respect every single one of you, but one thing that will slow the process down is negativity and Habbos shouting and ruining the program for others. This is 2012 and we are moving the Habbo product forward and we believe you guys are key to making it a success.

I get hundreds of fansite requests each week - they all vary in quality. I reject sites and I accept some.

We now provide content (HQ insight) to you before we launch it officially. Sometimes things change last minute at HQ, that's why you only hear it a few hours before we publish - this cant be helped. This is business. Its up to you how you turn this content in to awesome content for your audiences. We cannot supply guidance to help make your sites better. Its time to get creative and make your site better than the others.

The process works similar to how online Tech press works. A new product comes out, A press release is written by the company, it is sent to hundreds of tech blogs. Sites write the story. The best tech blogs that get the most traffic are often the sites that write great news and offer a lot of insight to their audiences.

In terms of promoting you more, I am in discussions with HQ about the community pages (updating them), I am also looking at promoting you on a tab in the official Facebook pages too. I am also pressing HQ to showcase fansite events better ingame and on the site. This fansite program is just the start - we have a lot more exciting things to come - but we all need to be paitient. Global programs like this dont work over night - a lot of work is going in to ensuring this is a success.

I AM LISTENING - PLEASE DO NOT THINK I AM NOT :)

I was tweeting late last night (before bed) and now moving forward, I have slightly tweaked the fansite criteria to make it fairer.

FANSITE CRITERIA:

- Continue to use FREE domains if you wish. We do not recommend this, they are not good for SEO and can often look scammy to users, but we understand if you can't afford a domain.
- We do not want to see people sending in simple blog templates with no news. It is obvious this is just to gain the ingame badge.
- It is not mandatory for a site to include forums. A forum is a good social utility for a site however
- You can write about un-related Habbo news. I was aiming this message at sites that get sent in that contain nothing about Habbo (for example PS3 and Xbox dedicated sites). If its a Habbo fansite it should be about Habbo right?...
- The fansite audit will be checking inactive sites and those that have not been updated for approx a month. It will begin this Wednesday.
- We want to see quality sites, serving great content to your audiences. The Habbo brand is associated to your site so we want this to be as good as possible.
- Site must not contain dead links
- Sites should contain inbound links to Habbo (this can be through your news, the fansite badge, or to the client)
- It would be good for Radio sites to start including news on their sites. This is not mandatory, but will help if you want to get on the mailing list.
- Optional: Sites must contain links to Habbo's Facebook and Twitter channels.

We have the right to remove sites from the mailing list. When we add sites to the list, our decision is final.

When the quality checks have been completed and I have weeded out inactive sites, I will send another poll to capture details for the ingame badge and VIP club. Lots more sites have been added in the last 3 weeks!

I will supply an audio file clearing up a lot of other points later on today.

Thanks again for your discussions yesterday. STAY POSITIVE, STAY COOL, STAY CLASSY.

[Jordy]

Press releases to Habbo fansites before Habbo itself announces the news is the most promising thing Habbo have done towards fansites since about 2005 (I hate to be someone looking back to the past as "The Good Old Days" but it's fair to say under Callie, the fansites received a lot more benefits including regular Hotel alerts, VIP, exclusive events, free furniture etc). This will encourage users of the hotel to use fansites much more for news and I think it's fair to say the fansites have been listened to. There's also a bit of common sense it seems with Habbo noticing the fansites clearly set up to earn a badge.

[Jazz]

i got this email the other day and I'm glad they are getting rid of these horrid fansites

[Ftb80562]

Habbox FTW

[Cornholio!.]

Bump.

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[xxMATTGxx]

Bump.

What's the reason for the bump...

[sex]

What's the reason for the bump...

he wants to bum and grind you

[sex]

What's the reason for the bump...

he wants to bum and grind you

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bump i mean