Habbo caught up in child sex scandal / Habbo Mute

[ColyTom]

Omg, haven't heard about any of this till today when I logged on and realised I couldn't talk. I'm not suprised this has happened though!

[xxMATTGxx]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvWLIjWdQO0

[e5]

The other thing about this mute, is that it is encouraging users to ask others to come off Habbo/open a new window with a link to another site where they can chat UNMODERATED. This in itself is dangerous for the safety of young people.


Cheers for the vid matt.

[Red]

Well they can't really speak to do that now, since basically all form of communication has been removed.

[lawrawrrr]

love the song in the video LOL

[Red]

Sounds like a eurovision song at beginning. LMAO I like it too.

[Camcorder]

Paul just tweeted:

Habbos, a video summarizing #TheGreatUnmute http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvWLIjWdQO0 enjoy!

The video is quite lame. Seems like they're trying to use older users' experiences to show the public (who won't even look at this) what sort of community Habbo is now.

Threads merged by Jordan (Forum Super Moderator): Due to same topic being discussed

[KieKieKoala]

That was the most lamest video ever

[Jarkie]

Boring video. Why is he wasting time on YouTube. unmute us already!

[DPS]

So this is why there taking so long.. BECAUSE THEY MAKE A STUPID VIDEO.

[iBlueBox]

Cute you could see my habbo in the video just standing their.

[Shockwave.2CC]

Ok, I thought it going to be an alright video, but then it just turned into a video about Habbo users comments

[e5]

matt g posted this in another thread.

[Annabelle]

^ LOL I thought it sounded like a eurovision song, too.

I haven't been on Habbo in a good while (joined in 2005/6), and I only found out this morning that I still had an account on this forum, lol. But still, I really hope Sulake and Habbo get back on its feet, when I heard all the news and gossip surrounding the 'sex scandal' investigation I was really concerned, seeming as I played it almost everyday when I was 12-14 (now 18). Despite the fact I don't think - from what i've seen - the investigation was carried out incredibly well (was she going purposely into 'TEEN PARTY LOLOL HAVE BOBBA HERE HURR' rooms or just chatting around like normal?), I've got to be honest, I really wasn't surprised. I mean come on, allowing these rooms like 'T33N PARTY ;)) BEDS <3 LOVE <3' and the suggestive ads which have been placed everywhere, they were probably going to get into some sort of trouble or bump in the road somewhere. It's been really interesting seeing a whole community pulled together over something like this, and I really hope they improve the moderating system as well. I'm all for more moderators and volunteer MODs (anyone remember hobbas?) who have had training to deal with situations involving this.

I know my input is probably worthless and churning up facts already discussed here, but hnnnggh I really hope it recovers from this. It's been brilliant seeing all the feedback coming from users, let's just hope Sulake takes them into consideration. :c

/input

[ickles]

o0o0o... I see myself on that video ;D

It is rather a dull video though!

[lawrawrrr]

+ landing.view.unmute.mainmessage.body=The chat is back in Habbo, in a limited wa
+ y at first. Before you can chat, you need to read our safety instructions and p
+ ass a safety quiz. When you've passed, you can participate in our safe chat. IM
+ , forums and minimail are still disabled.


Looks like we were right about the quiz! IM's annoying though, so you can talk in rooms but not in console? And what exactly is safe chat?

[Jurv]

http://blog.habbo.com/ he's posted some updates!!

[fefobobo]

habbo is no diffrent between every other social network and there parents should know what there doing

[DPS]

http://blog.habbo.com/ he's posted some updates!!


Wrong it says he did. but says the Poster is Linn LOL weird.. but yeah hes pissing me off

---------- Post added 25-06-2012 at 04:19 PM ----------

So what other hotels can you speak on now?

[xxMATTGxx]

As Habbo Reintroduces Chat into Selected Markets, Sulake CEO Invites Parents to Contribute to Online Culture Change

http://www.sulake.com/press/releases/as-habbo-reintroduces-chat-into-selected-markets-sulake-ceo-invites-parents-to-contribute-to-online-culture-change/#.T-mynXU07eU.twitter

[GommeInc]

As Habbo Reintroduces Chat into Selected Markets, Sulake CEO Invites Parents to Contribute to Online Culture Change

http://www.sulake.com/press/releases/as-habbo-reintroduces-chat-into-selected-markets-sulake-ceo-invites-parents-to-contribute-to-online-culture-change/#.T-mynXU07eU.twitter
So ignore everything they say, and only pick out the select few who may be brown nosing or paying a compliment? The parents are going to think they're talking to a child, with the intelligence to match :/

[Alba]

Paul LaFontaine ‏@PaulLaFo (http://twitter.com/#!/PaulLaFo)@habboxjx (http://twitter.com/#!/habboxjx)@Maartuhnn_x (http://twitter.com/#!/Maartuhnn_x) .com is going to be unmuted when the Guardian features are ready and the presence of alert Helpers is very high.
I seriously don't understand this man, and his ideas. How do they know there's going to be a presence of 'alert' helpers, when he removed our ability to communicate with other Habbos through the Helper, followed by removing the tool completely?

[Jarkie]

[/B]Paul LaFontaine ‏@PaulLaFo (http://twitter.com/#!/PaulLaFo)@habboxjx (http://twitter.com/#!/habboxjx)@Maartuhnn_x (http://twitter.com/#!/Maartuhnn_x) .com is going to be unmuted when the Guardian features are ready and the presence of alert Helpers is very high.
I seriously don't understand this man, and his ideas. How do they know there's going to be a presence of 'alert' helpers, when he removed our ability to communicate with other Habbos through the Helper, followed by removing the tool completely?

Omg.. this means we will have to wait even longer... FOR GOD SAKES.

[GoldenMerc]

Omg.. this means we will have to wait even longer... FOR GOD SAKES.

I don't see it untill next week personally

[Jarkie]

I don't see it untill next week personally

Starting to annoy me already. Why can't they just unmute us, so we all can get used to the new chat system then introduce this hobba like system.

[Alba]

Omg.. this means we will have to wait even longer... FOR GOD SAKES.

Paul LaFontaine ‏@PaulLaFo (http://twitter.com/#!/PaulLaFo)@Snim_UK (http://twitter.com/#!/Snim_UK) Our goals is to intro this in a few short weeks, not months. But the EXACT date is still to be determined :)

Haha.

[GoldenMerc]

Paul LaFontaine ‏@PaulLaFo (http://twitter.com/#%21/PaulLaFo) Habbos, Guardian feature is based on Helper technology which is already built. So development is fast, not slow. Hang in there.



What the hell...

[MKR&*42]

Stop.Making.A.Bloody.Campaign.Over.EVERYTHING.

Yes, I have no faith now. Just get him to unmute .de so I can go and speak basic german on there ;l.

[Jarkie]

Paul LaFontaine ‏@PaulLaFo (http://twitter.com/#!/PaulLaFo)
@Snim_UK (http://twitter.com/#!/Snim_UK) Our goals is to intro this in a few short weeks, not months. But the EXACT date is still to be determined

Haha.[/B][/B][/FONT][/COLOR]


Paul LaFontaine ‏@PaulLaFo (http://twitter.com/#%21/PaulLaFo)
Habbos, Guardian feature is based on Helper technology which is already built. So development is fast, not slow. Hang in there.

What the hell...

WTF. is this man on drugs or something?! ffs.

[Puma!]

Trying to tweet him is impossible - I can't ever seem to get an answer.

[GoldenMerc]

Trying to tweet him is impossible - I can't ever seem to get an answer.

I got an answer why i was unfollowed

[Jarkie]

Trying to tweet him is impossible - I can't ever seem to get an answer.

I've seen he only seems to tweet the same people. I've been trying to get a reply from him for awhile, but I just get ignored. .. might be 'cos I keep saying unmute the .COM hotel already... but in my EYE's i swear he hates the english hotel now after what c4 has done lmfao.

[Red]

Tweeted him yday and today as well and I just get ignored.

[GoldenMerc]

Dominic Gunn ‏@dominic_gunn (http://twitter.com/#%21/dominic_gunn) @PaulLaFo (http://twitter.com/#%21/PaulLaFo) Is there's going to be a selection of users pushed to "Guardian" status, when the blacklist environment becomes available?



Paul LaFontaine ‏@PaulLaFo (http://twitter.com/#%21/PaulLaFo) @dominic_gunn (http://twitter.com/#%21/dominic_gunn) We learned from the Helpers and plan a screen to enable Guardians that is exp + history check. Blacklist + Guardians together



Highly doubtful i'll be one now with my history

[lawrawrrr]

So if you have a clean history you have more of a chance? woo!! never been banned irl :')

[GoldenMerc]

So if you have a clean history you have more of a chance? woo!! never been banned irl :')

I don't think iv been banned on this acc, but not sure lol... saying that i've been registered with this account for 6 years, that is quite some time..

[lawrawrrr]

I don't think iv been banned on this acc, but not sure lol... saying that i've been registered with this account for 6 years, that is quite some time..

Surely the older the account/player is the more likely to give you the guardian status?

[GoldenMerc]

Surely the older the account/player is the more likely to give you the guardian status?

I'd hope so, if i saw a guardian who was say made in 2011 or 2010 i'd be pretty disappointed tbh

[Kyle]

ive had about 4 perms lifted from my account does this mean the history is wiped or will i not be able to become a guardian lol

[lawrawrrr]

I'd hope so, if i saw a guardian who was say made in 2011 or 2010 i'd be pretty disappointed tbh

Even some 2012 Habbos finished the talent track, which is the only thing Paul's hinted as needing :S

[Jarkie]

Highly doubtful i'll be one now with my history

I'm the same. But due to how old our accounts are and from we was last banned... I haven't been banned for like 4 or 5 years now. i just have 1000 and one warnings LOL (mostly unfair cos mods can't read english) So with anyluck they will take it in to an account such as "Yes this user has been banned and warned, user has learnt from mistakes... User keeps on playing and has a gab of bans for XX number of years.."

[GoldenMerc]

I got perm banned in 05 on SilverMerc but can't see that being a problem, can't remember any other bans

[Puma!]

I've seen he only seems to tweet the same people. I've been trying to get a reply from him for awhile, but I just get ignored. .. might be 'cos I keep saying unmute the .COM hotel already... but in my EYE's i swear he hates the english hotel now after what c4 has done lmfao.
Yeah same, I find it funny how loads of users are now ex-Hobbas and how they apparently love to help. If you can't beat 'em, join em.. But that still doesn't get me a reply :P


Fun times ahead, folks - let the sucking-up commence!

[lawrawrrr]

I don't know how they'd stop people from not revealing other accounts...

[Red]

had a few unfair 2 hr bans which I appealed and they admitted they were wrong. Annoying if things like that are held against you because of incompetant mods.

[GoldenMerc]

I don't know how they'd stop people from not revealing other accounts...

Well they deleted it, so potentially not. other than reading this thread off course. But the difference is its years ago... many years ago.

[lawrawrrr]

Well they deleted it, so potentially not. other than reading this thread off course. But the difference is its years ago... many years ago.

But when you submit a help request they always ask for other accounts, and I'm going to assume they'll be even stricter when it comes to applying for a powerful postition like guardian. I'd put my 5-year-old account on cos it's clean but if someone was perm banned then made a new one, they wouldn't HAVE to declare it, as they wouldn't be able to prove it.

[MKR&*42]

I got perm banned in 05 on SilverMerc but can't see that being a problem, can't remember any other bans

I presume you own the account "BronzeMerc" as well? :P

Anyway, I have 50+ bans in total because half are just incorrectly given ;l and the rest were for being a little bit sexual. Intersocial has none though lal

[GoldenMerc]

I presume you own the account "BronzeMerc" as well? :P

Anyway, I have 50+ bans in total because half are just incorrectly given ;l and the rest were for being a little bit sexual. Intersocial has none though lal
did have then it got deleted think Zuth; or someone similar registered it.
think Jord; has ChromeMerc and a few other "Merc"

[Zuth]

did have then it got deleted think Zuth; or someone similar registered it.
think Jord; has ChromeMerc and a few other "Merc"

I have silvermerc :P

[Tidings]

probably means we'll be updated on the chat either later on or tomorrow..

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[Empired]

But considering this is Habbo it'll probably been a couple of weeks tbh :P

[Zak]

But considering this is Habbo it'll probably been a couple of weeks tbh :P

Haha, this !!

[Jarkie]

:O Thats odd... I really hope so.. but Paul has said there is no planned date?!? :S

[Seikou]

suppose it's another step towards being unmuted :-)

[:odey:]

I just want it gone now. haa :(

[Jarkie]

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t83/jarkie/lazy.png

Image for lazy ppl xoxo

[MKR&*42]

Awk when I just realised W.L is Welcome Lounge :(

Urm, good I guess? :L

[DPS]

Notice not many people sit in there now.. people given up lol

[Jarkie]

Notice not many people sit in there now.. people given up lol

Thats cos 99% of people are now boosting, ahaha!!

[DPS]

Thats cos 99% of people are now boosting, ahaha!!

Haha true i dont see the point in boosting tbh. idc about badges that everyone can get lol

[geo]

Intersocial; I didn't have a clue what WL was too! :P
I assumed we would have been unmuted now anyway, hopefully we'll be unmuted today though. :)

[Kieran]

.com won't be unmuted this week from what Paul wrote on the latest blog post.

"This week, we are rolling out limited chat in Spain and Brazil, two markets that contain high proportions of active users. "

[Jarkie]

Haha true i dont see the point in boosting tbh. idc about badges that everyone can get lol

lol like most badges nowadays >.>

[sex]

i hope paul loses his job
******

[Mathew]

grow up.

http://i.imgur.com/eyOSy.png

[PiippBB]

Hmm, given his posts to ENGLISH speaking users on his Twitter last week saying we would be unmuted today I got my hopes up. Then he said all hotels would receive communication this week. He's now backtracked on that and said some this week. He's answered questions regarding dates for all hotels apart from .com. Now he's told us via Twitter that .com will only be unmuted when the Guardian system is ready. He then told someone the Guardian system doesn't actually have a date, but they hope to have it ready within a few weeks. I'm sorry, Paul, but if you keep .com closed for another two weeks it will die. User numbers have already sunk to a complete low, even I'm beginning to get annoyed with this mute now. It's all the more frustrating when we can see other hotels receive their chat back. Why can't they just give us the limited chat now? They've had several days to test it on the Finnish hotel, they've unlocked it for two more, yet we have no end in sight. It's ridiculous. Even a filter preventing most words would be better than this silence. I can't see many people sticking with them much longer, I know I'm losing the will. And Paul's constant hints on his Twitter that .com will be unmuted, then backtracking is just ridiculous. Just be honest Paul, if you don't want to unmute us then tell us now and we'll stop wasting time holding torches and filling up rooms.

[Alba]

I thought they had frozen peoples VIP?

[GoldenMerc]

grow up.

http://i.imgur.com/eyOSy.png
He'd get fame out of anything that kid.

I thought they had frozen peoples VIP?
Nope think they are still running but we get it all back

[iBlueBox]

Time habbo.com is unmated it's probably been like a month now?

[Jarkie]

Time habbo.com is unmated it's probably been like a month now?


It will be the 21st of December 2012 (DOOMS DAY)

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t83/jarkie/ohmygawd128490753723906250.jpg

[PiippBB]

Time habbo.com is unmated it's probably been like a month now?

Actually it's only been two weeks today. But given Paul has made out we could be muted for many more weeks; yes, I can see us being silent for at least a whole month. I can't see much of a community remaining after that.

[Demi]

People who use Habbo will use it, people who don't would be the ones that have gone to other sites because they like to cause the issues.

Simples.

[PiippBB]

People who use Habbo will use it, people who don't would be the ones that have gone to other sites because they like to cause the issues.

Simples.

Not really true. I love playing on Habbo but I'm getting frustrated now and I can see why so many others already have. That said, I'm still logging in everyday and I'll definitely be on again full time (by that I mean as much as I was before the mute) once the mute is lifted, it's just annoying having this mute and I'm getting angry and upset that I can't play at the moment, as I'm sure many others are, and already have, too. It's made worse by the fact that other hotels have been unmuted and we haven't. There's no reason they couldn't unmute .com right now with the limited chat. It's not gonna open them up to paedophiles considering there's a list of ALLOWED words. They wouldn't even really need to moderate with the whitelist on to be honest as so many words can't be used. It would just be nice if they gave us the limited chat (even if it is awfully limited) whilst they sort out the things to follow. At least then we could communicate in some way.

[Fifty-Six]

Not really true. I love playing on Habbo but I'm getting frustrated now and I can see why so many others already have. That said, I'm still logging in everyday and I'll definitely be on again full time (by that I mean as much as I was before the mute) once the mute is lifted, it's just annoying having this mute and I'm getting angry and upset that I can't play at the moment, as I'm sure many others are, and already have, too. It's made worse by the fact that other hotels have been unmuted and we haven't. There's no reason they couldn't unmute .com right now with the limited chat. It's not gonna open them up to paedophiles considering there's a list of ALLOWED words. They wouldn't even really need to moderate with the whitelist on to be honest as so many words can't be used. It would just be nice if they gave us the limited chat (even if it is awfully limited) whilst they sort out the things to follow. At least then we could communicate in some way.

Habbo.com will be last to be unmuted because we're the hotel Channel 4 and the British media will report on once new features are implemented. I'm guessing they want to do test runs on the Hotels where sexual behaviour wasn't as big an issue, so that things will run smoothly when the spotlight is back on.

[PiippBB]

Habbo.com will be last to be unmuted because we're the hotel Channel 4 and the British media will report on once new features are implemented. I'm guessing they want to do test runs on the Hotels where sexual behaviour wasn't as big an issue, so that things will run smoothly when the spotlight is back on.

Oh yes, I guessed at this myself as soon as we found out the unmutes would happen one hotel at a time. As you say, the media aren't interested in the other hotels; just .com. What's frustrating though is that there's no reason they couldn't unmute .com right now with the limited chat. Afterall, it's a list of words we're allowed to say, blocking anything not included on the list. I don't see why they can't give that to all the hotels now that they've had time to test it on Finland; provided there's no bugs in the system it's a filter which will obviously work. There's no reason they couldn't unmute us now with the strict filter (giving us at least some way to communicate, however limited/restricted then continue to test the other features on the other hotels. The fact we won't be unmuted with even the filter until the Guardian system is ready, and Paul has said that could take a few weeks, is just ridiculous. His reason for doing every other hotel first is based on the fact most of the staff don't have very good English. Then, when he is tweeted saying that they should have more English native language speakers for the .com hotel, he says they have plenty. He seems to be contradicting himself there. Infact, he seems to contradict himself a lot.

[Alba]

One step forward, the code from that chat box is now gone.

[Jarkie]

One step forward, the code from that chat box is now gone.

lol that might be the only thing they did was 'remove' that weird coding from the chat boxes to the users.

[lawrawrrr]

lol that might be the only thing they did was 'remove' that weird coding from the chat boxes to the users.
restocked the football section too!!

[beth]

i will never fail to be baffled by people sitting in a chatroom they can't even chat in. holy jesus.

[Michael]

Paul LaFontaine ‏@PaulLaFo
12pm Helsinki time tomorrow we tell you on the blog (and here) when next sites can chat again. Thanks!

I'm glad this mute is coming to an end, finally!

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[santa-my-nana]

Awwwww, I'm enjoying this mute

[MKR&*42]

Tomorrow *Sorry, we'll tell you them in 2 days instead" :rolleyes:.

Wish they'd just stop ******* about and tell us now.

[lawrawrrr]

Paul LaFontaine ‏@PaulLaFo
(https://twitter.com/#!/PaulLaFo)I was briefed today on the extension of VIP to make up for time lost so be assured. Also, I asked for Mute Survivor prize for all! :)


ooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[Chippiewill]

Actually Paul typoed, he meant that 12PM tomorrow he's going to be telling you on the blog when there'll be a blog post about when the blog post about the unmute blog times will be.

[Michael]

Actually Paul typoed, he meant that 12PM tomorrow he's going to be telling you on the blog when there'll be a blog post about when the blog post about the unmute blog times will be.

So tomorrow he'll tell us on the blog about when the next blog will come up? Strange.

EDIT: How do you know Paul typoed?

[Empired]

Actually I kind of believe that they will tell us. I don't understand why the mute was so long anyway, why does it take you two weeks to sort out a word filter?

[geo]

bit of a ******* delay......
finally i guess. all of this for absolutely nothing, whole thing was dealt with ridiculously. :rolleyes:


Actually I kind of believe that they will tell us. I don't understand why the mute was so long anyway, why does it take you two weeks to sort out a word filter?

i swear if this world filter thing is compulsory habbo will be exactly like club ******* penguin

[lawrawrrr]

He'll probably just say what the next hotel to be unmuted is...

[Jarkie]

About time! Going to take some time to get used to all them padlocks.

[Succubus]

Let's hope this is the end of this :P They wont stop fiddling around with nothing but air, it's stupid and they should just hurry up.

[Camcorder]

He'll probably just say what the next hotel to be unmuted is...

Pretty sure that'll be it. And we're probably going to be the last hotel to get unmuted. This mute is completely unnecessary and I am almost sure Paul is incompetent.

[Mathew]

I don't even want to be unmuted now tbh. Couldn't care less anymore. It's clear to see the game has no hope with their current moderators and player support staff - what's the point? :P

[garriet]

hope they do actually tell us tomorrow.

but i kinda agree with mathew, but then again without chat most of the community is lost.

[wiktoria]

they could've unmuted us days ago

[Empired]

bit of a ******* delay......
finally i guess. all of this for absolutely nothing, whole thing was dealt with ridiculously. :rolleyes:



i swear if this world filter thing is compulsory habbo will be exactly like club ******* penguin

Yeah n get banned for saying tea towel because it could be used as something sexual.. somehow :S

[Pigperson]

Woop finally :D

Will

[Jarkie]

Yeah n get banned for saying tea towel because it could be used as something sexual.. somehow :S

lol omg yea.. its just gonna be like Club penguin where you get a server ban for using words like "wtf" lmao

[CreatureOfNight]

I can't wait til this mute is over!!! :) Can't wait to "speak" again on habbo lol

[Logandyer45]

Hell, they better tell us, this crap is getting boring. I am still here because I love Habbo. It's like Monday Night RAW, you don't know what's gonna happen next. Lmaooooo

[Shorty]

Looks like .com will be unmuted next week, at the earliest.

[PiippBB]

He'll tell us tomorrow which hotels will be unmuted next. We already know it won't be .com; we're last and won't be unmuted until the Guardian system is ready, which he already said yesterday will be a few weeks. He hinted heavily on Monday that France would reopen soon, I think they will be one of the hotels named tomorrow.

[DPS]

Lets me honest most of us have found better stuff to do while its been muted, the only people going back is the freaks that care about furni that isnt worth anything. Im glad that the mute has made me pull away from the net.

[PiippBB]

Lets me honest most of us have found better stuff to do while its been muted, the only people going back is the freaks that care about furni that isnt worth anything. Im glad that the mute has made me pull away from the net.

I don't think that's fair and I find it insulting that you refer to players who have spent good many on a game as freaks, just because they care about the investment (not just money, time aswell ) that they have made. For most of us Habbo is simply a place to relax after a busy day, playing games and chatting to friends. Yes, in a way it is good that the mute has given people time to reflect on how much time they spend on the site, but it's also not unreasonable to expect that most players will return to the site, whether it be because of furni or friends or just because they enjoy playing the game.

[DPS]

I don't think that's fair and I find it insulting that you refer to players who have spent good many on a game as freaks, just because they care about the investment (not just money, time aswell ) that they have made. For most of us Habbo is simply a place to relax after a busy day, playing games and chatting to friends. Yes, in a way it is good that the mute has given people time to reflect on how much time they spend on the site, but it's also not unreasonable to expect that most players will return to the site, whether it be because of furni or friends or just because they enjoy playing the game.

What you "own" on Habbo isnt yours. You have payed you use a virtual item that will never belong to you, if it gets taken you wont ever get it back, If Habbo was to close and i dont see it lasting another 10 years well yeah.. haha

[PiippBB]

What you "own" on Habbo isnt yours. You have payed you use a virtual item that will never belong to you, if it gets taken you wont ever get it back, If Habbo was to close and i dont see it lasting another 10 years well yeah.. haha

But I would imagine within the next ten years I will have left the game anyway. And I don't think the current issues will cause the site to close, not considering the turnover Sulake made last year from Habbo. I'm just going to leave it at that because in all honestly I find the way you compose your posts to be quite insulting; it's not funny that people have spent good money on a game only for it to close (which as I said I don't think will happen for some time yet anyway, if at all).

I'm glad the mute has made you realise you need to step away from the game, but at the same time, it's finding a balance between real life and the net which is most important, a balance which I learnt long ago. For me, playing on Habbo for too long isn't an issue; I'm not logged on everyday and I don't spend too much time on the hotel anyway. it's just something that's there which I can choose to play if I'm bored and I think that's probably how most people look at it. It's no different to a console game such as COD or Pokemon; the key is finding a balance between playing the game and living a life.

On topic:

How many more hotels are left to be unmuted?

[DPS]

But I would imagine within the next ten years I will have left the game anyway. And I don't think the current issues will cause the site to close, not considering the turnover Sulake made last year from Habbo. I'm just going to leave it at that because in all honestly I find the way you compose your posts to be quite insulting; it's not funny that people have spent good money on a game only for it to close (which as I said I don't think will happen for some time yet anyway, if at all).

I'm glad the mute has made you realise you need to step away from the game, but at the same time, it's finding a balance between real life and the net which is most important, a balance which I learnt long ago. For me, playing on Habbo for too long isn't an issue; I'm not logged on everyday and I don't spend too much time on the hotel anyway. it's just something that's there which I can choose to play if I'm bored and I think that's probably how most people look at it. It's no different to a console game such as COD or Pokemon; the key is finding a balance between playing the game and living a life.

On topic:

How many more hotels are left to be unmuted?

Habbo isnt a Game :)

[Fifty-Six]

How many more hotels are left to be unmuted?

The majority are still closed. I think it's only Finland and Spain that have limited chat right now.

[geo]

Looks like .com will be unmuted next week, at the earliest.

Next week.... at the earliest?! You've got to be ******* kidding me. We've been waiting for so long, how much longer are they going to delay this?

[Seikou]

it's finally coming to an end, sick of waiting..

[PixelWarning]

Next week.... at the earliest?! You've got to be ******* kidding me. We've been waiting for so long, how much longer are they going to delay this?

The accusations against Sulake/Habbo were very strong. As a result, a lot of mistakes were uncovered and the entire Habbo population took part in contributing ideas that they wanted to see implemented into Habbo through TheGreatUnmute.com. Sulake may oversee Habbo which is a large game, but their staff are only human and they are taking into consideration that they are still under the spotlight of the media and parents. I understand your frustration but in my experience; development of games cannot be rushed. I have worked for two separate games that are similar to Habbo (not retros) and when rushed, things come out very sloppy.

They're not delaying it, they're making sure all of their I's are dotted and T's are crossed -- they cannot afford another slip up.

Don't take this post as an attack, just attempt to understand that they're working as best as they can and they're not holding off to be mean to you or other users. They want their entire Habbo population back just like before and as bad as you do. Patience is key.

[Vause]

FINALLY. it better not be like ******* club penguin otherwise i'll be gone.

[PiippBB]

Next week.... at the earliest?! You've got to be ******* kidding me. We've been waiting for so long, how much longer are they going to delay this?

Be prepared to wait even longer. Paul said via twitter yesterday that .com won't be unmuted until the Guardian system is ready. In a later tweet his said that THE Guardian system won't be ready for a few weeks. I don't think .com will be unmuted even next week, I think possibly the week after that, if not almost definitely the week after that.

[GommeInc]

ooooooooooooooooooooooooo
So a prize for putting up with the mute because he's useless at his job? I suppose he will try anything to keep people interested :P

If he shot a hundred children and was on the run from the police, he would put out a Tweet saying


Paul LaFontaine ‏@PaulLaFo
I'm currently in a hole. I've asked for a prize for everyone who survived my massacre. :)

[Shorty]

Be prepared to wait even longer. Paul said via twitter yesterday that .com won't be unmuted until the Guardian system is ready. In a later tweet his said that THE Guardian system won't be ready for a few weeks. I don't think .com will be unmuted even next week, I think possibly the week after that, if not almost definitely the week after that.

Interesting, if this is what he said in the tweet then your estimated times would be about right.

[Shockwave.2CC]

I believe the next sites to be unmuted will be Habbo Spain and Brazil anyways

[Kieran]

Interesting, if this is what he said in the tweet then your estimated times would be about right.

He didn't say that at all. He later said that graduating to filtered chat would occur with the release of Guardian. This is the second stage of the unmute with the blacklist as opposed to the whiltelist system.



I believe the next sites to be unmuted will be Habbo Spain and Brazil anyways


They're already unmuted.

[Shockwave.2CC]

They're already unmuted.

Ow never mind then.

.com will be the last to open anyways

[PiippBB]

He didn't say that at all. He later said that graduating to filtered chat would occur with the release of Guardian. This is the second stage of the unmute with the blacklist as opposed to the whiltelist system.


I was thinking filtered chat referred to any form of chat system though I can see how it could mean a blacklist as opposed to whitelist. The thing making me think he's referring to any form of chat is another Tweet he made, in which he said no date had been set for .com yet. As far as I'm aware, the hotels which have already been muted haven't even gotten a chat without the whitelist yet, so I'm certain what Paul means is that .com will only be unmuted in any form until the Guardian system is ready. Still a bit confused though, because as you say, it could be taken another way.

[Toilet]

Paul LaFontaine ‏@PaulLaFo (https://twitter.com/#!/PaulLaFo)
12pm Helsinki time tomorrow we tell you on the blog (and here) when next sites can chat again. Thanks!
from twitter..

[Jarkie]

from twitter..

.COM will be the last hotel, I bet you all my credz

[Tidings]

Cant seem to remember if group pages were turned off, i think they were, but they are back up now.

[Jarkie]

Cant seem to remember if group pages were turned off, i think they were, but they are back up now.

The only thing I saw with group pages is the forum bit is gone.

[Tidings]

guestbooks on groups are working though.. http://www.habbo.com/groups/15932/id this is the one i found

[Jarkie]

guestbooks on groups are working though.. http://www.habbo.com/groups/15932/id this is the one i found

Oh something Paul has missed!! :D

[Tidings]

Oh something Paul has missed!! :D
yeah haha , probably be able to communicate on them for now

[Toilet]

.COM will be the last hotel, I bet you all my credz
I know :'( annoying

[Logandyer45]

6 hours till we hear from Paul himself.

[Tidings]

Image for lazy people who cant be bothered making an account :p --Also, habbo.es is unmuted :)
http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/1773/habbobrazil.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/706/habbobrazil.png/)

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[Succubus]

Getting somewhere then, I have a guess we might have to wait a bit longer.. a bit more on that.

[Fifty-Six]

We won't be unmuted until all other hotels are.. we'll be last.

[MKR&*42]

.de next please, ik basic German so I'd be satisfied LOL.

I think it's going to be .fr next tbh, it's the next biggest community after .com (.com is after .es and .es is after .pt/.com.br).

[santa-my-nana]

.de next please, ik basic German so I'd be satisfied LOL.

I think it's going to be .fr next tbh, it's the next biggest community after .com (.com is after .es and .es is after .pt/.com.br).

Thats same here, i know basic german and spanish so i'm fine there :)

[DPS]

Habbo.es has been unmuted for around 3/4 days same as .com.br lol atleast get facts right.

[Jarkie]

Its times like this i wish i paid attention in my language lessons in school xD

[Camcorder]

New update from Paul:
Habbos another update on next sites to reestablish chat blog.habbo.com #Habbo

http://blog.habbo.com/2012/06/28/parental-advisory-summit-launches-and-chat-is-re-activated-in-4-hotels/

Doesn't tell us when we'll be reopened though as promised.

[MKR&*42]

I can now confirm that we are preparing to reinstate chat facilities into our French, German, Italian and Dutch Habbo sites on Friday 29 June.

WOO FOR .DE. - http://blog.habbo.com/

But ye doesn't say .com's time.. -.-

[Camcorder]

Tbh I am sick of how Paul man and his team are dealing with the problem. He is wasting our time waiting for them to waste theirs at solutions that too clearly won't work.

The safety quiz is ridiculous, is it supposed to filter out pedophiles? Is he aware that this safety quiz is not a real test and people can lie to get in? If this is his way of reinstating the rules it is taking too much time and it really shouldn't be that difficult.

It also seems like Paul encourages Habbo users protesting against Channel 4 and the mute - such pretentiously hypocritical behavior; Channel 4 isn't responsible for their terrible solution, and he is enforcing the unnecessary mute.

[tm]

WOO FOR .DE. - http://blog.habbo.com/

But ye doesn't say .com's time.. -.-


Habbos, .com will be unmuted when we have tested and are satisfied with a few new systems. We think next week, BUT systems must be ok thx
https://twitter.com/PaulLaFo/status/218360301765140480

So maybe next week, that's the best indication so far of a timescale.

[MKR&*42]

https://twitter.com/PaulLaFo/status/218360301765140480

So maybe next week, that's the best indication so far of a timescale.

"Think" is his fav. word tbh. sigh. He's completely destroyed the community by making the mute last this long.

[lawrawrrr]

I'm sure people would be criticising him MORE if he said it WILL be lifted next week and he doesn't do it!

I actually disagree and think the community is stronger (especially habbox) as it's fun communicating in signs and bringing more people here anyway. Annoying trading is nearly impossible but it stops the noobs annoying me lalalala

[MKR&*42]

I'm sure people would be criticising him MORE if he said it WILL be lifted next week and he doesn't do it!

I actually disagree and think the community is stronger (especially habbox) as it's fun communicating in signs and bringing more people here anyway. Annoying trading is nearly impossible but it stops the noobs annoying me lalalala

habbox communiuty is undoubtably stronger lol, but users who just use the game for general use have dropped dramatically. Hopefully they'll all return after the unmute, I miss so of my old mates loads :( hence why im glad i can go on .de tomorrow and see some of my friends on there :D

[PiippBB]

Paul has tweeted today saying .com will be unmuted next week provided the new systems work okay in all the other hotels (I think after the four European hotels are unmuted tomorrow .com is the last one left?). So everyone on the unmuted hotels better behave for our sake! Lol. Bear in mind he has said this isn't by any means definite, but it does offer hope that if it's not next week, it will almost certainly be the week after. Yay! :D

[MKR&*42]

Paul has tweeted today saying .com will be unmuted next week provided the new systems work okay in all the other hotels (I think after the four European hotels are unmuted tomorrow .com is the last one left?). So everyone on the unmuted hotels better behave for our sake! Lol. Bear in mind he has said this isn't by any means definite, but it does offer hope that if it's not next week, it will almost certainly be the week after. Yay! :D

.no and .se aren't unmuted? No? Nor is .dk.

Unless they were unmuted behind our backs XD

[PiippBB]

.no and .se aren't unmuted? No? Nor is .dk.

Unless they were unmuted behind our backs XD

I don't know how many there are if I'm honest, not since the merge when the English hotels were all merged and some of the others merged and some were closed. If this is the case I would imagine they'll do the rest on Monday and leave us until next Friday.

[MKR&*42]

I don't know how many there are if I'm honest, not since the merge when the English hotels were all merged and some of the others merged and some were closed. If this is the case I would imagine they'll do the rest on Monday and leave us until next Friday.

.com.br
.es
.se
.fi
.dk
.no
.de
.fr
.it
.nl
.com
.com.tr

There used to be .ch, all the english ones, .cn, .jp and .ru. I think I got them all? D:

[Fifty-Six]

.com.br
.es
.se
.fi
.dk
.no
.de
.fr
.it
.nl
.com
.com.tr

There used to be .ch, all the english ones, .cn, .jp and .ru. I think I got them all? D:

Yeah, looks like all of them, except Turkey isn't opened yet and that date has been delayed as a result of the mute fiasco. We'll be last to open, hopefully next week sometime.

[Plebings]

they won't just randomly unmute us, it'll take a while to finally get round to us, and if they knew a date (that was sooner, rather than later) they would have told us, we know how paul likes to hype it all up.

[PiippBB]

they won't just randomly unmute us, it'll take a while to finally get round to us, and if they knew a date (that was sooner, rather than later) they would have told us, we know how paul likes to hype it all up.

I honestly think we could have a blog post next Thursday announcing the .com unmute for Friday. If not, I'm certain it will be the following week. This is just going off Paul's tweets today.

[Puma!]

crap crap, how do i edit it?

[PiippBB]

Tbh I am sick of how Paul man and his team are dealing with the problem. He is wasting our time waiting for them to waste theirs at solutions that too clearly won't work.

The safety quiz is ridiculous, is it supposed to filter out pedophiles? Is he aware that this safety quiz is not a real test and people can lie to get in? If this is his way of reinstating the rules it is taking too much time and it really shouldn't be that difficult.

It also seems like Paul encourages Habbo users protesting against Channel 4 and the mute - such pretentiously hypocritical behavior; Channel 4 isn't responsible for their terrible solution, and he is enforcing the unnecessary mute.

The idea behind the safety quiz is to educate new users and for Sulake to have something, for when someone does inevitably break the rules, to say 'well, you knew what you were doing because you answered the quiz correctly, we did everything we could to ensure you knew the rules.' It's in no way an attempt at removing paedophiles from the site; the moderators and guardians are there for that.

And the mute is completely necessary; one to put an immediate end to the type of behaviour that landed them in this situation, and secondly so they can work on fixes to the problem. Sulake couldn't sit back and do nothing, to be honest the mute is the best reaction they could have given to the situation; it shows they are actively trying to prevent this behaviour from continuing and also working on a fix.

[geo]

Could anyone C&P his tweet? Still blocked! :(

Also, in some ways the mute has been really good for Habbox. I've missed out on talking to particular people that I only had on Habbo but I'm not so bothered by that. Okay, it was harder to enforce the rules with the mute taking place, but it's been quite a laugh changing games to fit with the mute and working around it.

[DPS]

Could anyone C&P his tweet? Still blocked! :(

Also, in some ways the mute has been really good for Habbox. I've missed out on talking to particular people that I only had on Habbo but I'm not so bothered by that. Okay, it was harder to enforce the rules with the mute taking place, but it's been quite a laugh changing games to fit with the mute and working around it.

It says .com will be unmuted once they test it.. and the systems are working. so around nxt week.. but he SAID THT LAST WEEK ;/

[=Lizzy]

oh dear, looks like he cannot keep to his words.. is he trying to make more people dislike him?
i dont even have the urge to go on habbo anymore and im sure im not the only one
its a shame that it has lasted so long.

[geo]

It says .com will be unmuted once they test it.. and the systems are working. so around nxt week.. but he SAID THT LAST WEEK ;/

Ah, thank you. :) Eh, yeah, I don't really go by when he says it's going to be unmuted any more - he keeps changing it. :(

[Puma!]

Guys n gals - here's a couple of thoughts:

- He's the CEO: although he'll have been in contact with everybody over the last couple of weeks, there will be plenty of testing going on. Hey, they might find a serious flaw in the coding so they might require additional test. A CEO's role is basically a frontman of the company, so although the communication by Paul L. is a bit poor, he'll at some level be receiving the same amount of news as us sometimes - he isn't an expert on coding/flash/shockwave/whatever runs Habbo nowadays.

- .com isn't as significant: when there are sites like .es/.com.br with 000's more of regular users than .com, those sites are bigger cash cows for Sulake - they'll prioritise them a lot more (hell.. lose 2,000 users on .com or maybe 5/6,000 on .com.br? A lot more opportunity bringing income in from the latter). .com also happens to be at the front of the allegations, so any reintroduction of chat will be scrutinised heavily by the British press - looking at how its improved, whether there is a danger of letting young users on the site etc. This press will be passed on worldwide, so making sure its flawless would be a priority for Sulake.

[Logandyer45]

Hey guys, I received this tweet from Paul @PaulLaFo "Habbos, .com will be unmuted when we have tested and are satisfied with a few new systems, we think next week, BUT systems must be ok thx."

He says next week, are we sure on this? I'd like to know if he is going to unmute us next week.

Sorry if there is already a post about this. :(

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[Aaron]

Well they're unmuting a few hotels tomorrow from what I read - so I would guess .COM would be next week sometime. We'll just need to wait and see what happens.

[ickles]

Ugh, this is taking so long, vip compensation better be good!

[Logandyer45]

Well they're unmuting a few hotels tomorrow from what I read - so I would guess .COM would be next week sometime. We'll just need to wait and see what happens.
Right, what is the Spain hotel url? I can speak Spanish. :D

Ugh, this is taking so long, vip compensation better be good!
No kiddin. I better get it. I purchased in between the mute.

[Tidings]

Right, what is the Spain hotel url? I can speak Spanish. :D

No kiddin. I better get it. I purchased in between the mute.

habbo spain is habbo.es :)

[Fifty-Six]

Thought I saw this tweet somewhere previously.. but yeah, .com will be last to resume chat features since we're the ones C4 and the media will be scrutinizing. They want to ensure that all of their new safeguards are working well before they open up our hotel.

[CreatureOfNight]

last week he said this week, now he's saying next week. I'd like if they would've in the first place given us a confirmed date. Though I don't mind waiting, I've still been on habbo almost everyday since the mute. I love habbo, and I will continue waiting. :)

[Aaron]

Right, what is the Spain hotel url? I can speak Spanish. :D

No kiddin. I better get it. I purchased in between the mute.

www.habbo.es

I assume they'll compensate for the days missed, they did tell us that if I remember correctly.

[Logandyer45]

last week he said this week, now he's saying next week. I'd like if they would've in the first place given us a confirmed date. Though I don't mind waiting, I've still been on habbo almost everyday since the mute. I love habbo, and I will continue waiting. :)

He said the Unmute process STARTS this week. .com will be LAST, because we are the naughty ones. ;)

[CreatureOfNight]

Oh gotcha, thank you :D and lmfao!

[Richie]

They just keep dragging it out. He tweets dumb crap like 'we will announce when the hotel will be back to normal tomorrow' then he posts some crap about it 'might be back' next week. Make up your bloody mind and give us a set date.

[ickles]

The mute is rather annoying, but on the bright side... there's no spamming or evilness;3

[Zak]

I'm with Richie just give us a date

[Jarkie]

I think he has said we wont be unmuted till next week OR the week after. They want this new hobba system to be 'perfect' before unmuted .COM.

[MKR&*42]

.de and all the other hotels that were gonna be unmuted have been :)

Strange though, I can't use the emoticon ": P" without a space on .de xD.
---

LOL. This filter is insane, I can't even say names?

[Lewis]

They just keep dragging it out. He tweets dumb crap like 'we will announce when the hotel will be back to normal tomorrow' then he posts some crap about it 'might be back' next week. Make up your bloody mind and give us a set date.

He said he will announce when the hotel will be back tomorrow, NOT THAT IT IS back tomorrow. Just when they announce it lol

[Catchy]

I'm so fed up with this mute :( online social life has gone down the drain since *+*+*+ apparently it's gonna be muted for a further 2 weeks I heard.

[SackRace]

VIP just ran out better get it back after mute ffs

[Matt]

hahahahaahhahahaahahah SackRace; is a norm :3

It's been on for ages the mute and longer than what we all expected. Next week hopefully! And they say VIP will be compensated so I'm guessing it will be for the entire time habbo was muted. Will cause a riot if they only do it for 7 days lol.

[Eoin247]

I haven't played habbo or posted on here in a while but tbh i'm kinda glad this happened. The main reason being to get back at sulake for destroying the game that i once loved.On a side note, the channel four report is laughable. 10/11 year olds are not even supposed to be signing up to habbo not to mention that this reporter was obviously looking for trouble in the hotel. Next thing they attack will be club penguin.

[GommeInc]

I haven't played habbo or posted on here in a while but tbh i'm kinda glad this happened. The main reason being to get back at sulake for destroying the game that i once loved.On a side note, the channel four report is laughable. 10/11 year olds are not even supposed to be signing up to habbo not to mention that this reporter was obviously looking for trouble in the hotel. Next thing they attack will be club penguin.
That's why the report was amazing, because 10 and 11 year olds do use Habbo. Heck, the lowest reported age was 8 and Habbo knew nothing about it. Whether they purposely looked for the rooms or not is irrelevant, the fact of the matter is that these rooms should never of existed yet apparently they're suitable for 13 year olds. Like you said, Sulake deserve all this for completely destroying the game and having it hit rock bottom. This will either make them or kill them, and if these useless attempts to fix the system are anything to go by, it will probably kill it.

[Mathew]

Tweet by Paul: No player mod scheme. The community is being mobilized to chase inappropriate behavior from the site. Mods remain professional.

HOW CAN HE RELY ON THE COMMUNITY TO SORT OUT THE PROBLEMS RAISED IN THAT REPORT? Once all this has died down, people won't report and people won't do anything and it will go back to how it was before. Why are they so out-of-touch with this kind of thing? Some kind of scheme having people "earn" their freedom is daft because anyone can do it anyway... ugh... forget it, reading his tweets just make me question a few things.

[MKR&*42]

Tweet by Paul: No player mod scheme. The community is being mobilized to chase inappropriate behavior from the site. Mods remain professional.

HOW CAN HE RELY ON THE COMMUNITY TO SORT OUT THE PROBLEMS RAISED IN THAT REPORT? Once all this has died down, people won't report and people won't do anything and it will go back to how it was before. Why are they so out-of-touch with this kind of thing? Some kind of scheme having people "earn" their freedom is daft because anyone can do it anyway... ugh... forget it, reading his tweets just make me question a few things.

Haha, I saw that last night and was like ":l" irl. Are guardians or whatever it's bloody called, going to end up with ban powers lol? Idek what they're supposed to be getting - only bans and extreme moderation would reduce the kind of paedophilia in the hotel but guardian Hobbas really aren't the solution to that.

I bet you smile everytime you go to his Twitter page Mathew x

[Logandyer45]

I got a text on my phone from Paul about the following.

Update, and about Fansite Adverting.

Update: Paul posted this on Twitter. ".no, .se, and .dk are next, .com right after that. Final checks on current systems in process. Steadily we return to normal."

I asked him about Fansite Advertising he had this to say: "What do you mean?" then "Not my top priority right now. Getting friends reconnected is top priority. thanks"

So, he is just saying that he doesn't know about fansites atm. I know this will be moved, just thought I would post in incase it's not. Enjoy! :)

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[tm]

He's also promising more staff interaction at least on twitter/the sulake blog. That can't be a bad thing, well unless they completely forget about using the hotel.

[Jarkie]

The question is.. why are we last? I don't see why he kept all hotels muted, then unmute them all together.

[geo]

The question is.. why are we last? I don't see why he kept all hotels muted, then unmute them all together.

And we're meant to be the pilot hotel! :rolleyes: I guess it's because the report was aimed at .com more so than other hotels. :/

[Kasabian]

The question is.. why are we last? I don't see why he kept all hotels muted, then unmute them all together.

Biggest hotel & the media spotlight was pinned predominately on the .COM hotel, so they want to show that they are taking all the required action and implementing it properly on the 'lesser' hotels

[santa-my-nana]

The question is.. why are we last? I don't see why he kept all hotels muted, then unmute them all together.

and we are the biggest community as well. are we not?

[Logandyer45]

He's also promising more staff interaction at least on twitter/the sulake blog. That can't be a bad thing, well unless they completely forget about using the hotel.
They will most likely befriend the users.

The question is.. why are we last? I don't see why he kept all hotels muted, then unmute them all together.
He wanted to try out the system before anything happened. That's mostly why.

[Tidings]

if it works once. why does it have to be tested EVERYWHERE else? they only had to do .fi to see if it worked right? then bam put it everywhere.

[Jarkie]

and we are the biggest community as well. are we not?

Yes we are, (I bealive) and I would imagine it the .COM hotel that makes the most profit, due to there being 3-4 different countries within it. surely if it was for bug testing, he woulda seen that the Finland umute was fine.. so unmute all the other hotels? I'm sure he would had find more bugs and whatnot by launching this on a bigger hotel.

[Munex]

I got a text on my phone from Paul about the following.

That made me laugh. :P

Anyway, I can't wait for the unmute, It feels like it's been forever. I understand why .com is last, and I don't mind being last either.

[santa-my-nana]

Yes we are, (I bealive) and I would imagine it the .COM hotel that makes the most profit, due to there being 3-4 different countries within it. surely if it was for bug testing, he woulda seen that the Finland umute was fine.. so unmute all the other hotels? I'm sure he would had find more bugs and whatnot by launching this on a bigger hotel.

there is a few more than 3/4 hotel, in total there is 11 hotels in total

United Kingdom
United states
Australia
Canada
India
Malaysia
New Zealand
Philippines
Singapore
Ireland (southern)
and finally Brazil

all the english speaking hotels were merged together

[Empired]

We're last because the reporter who got ask for badbadbad things used .com, therefore we get hit the hardest.

[Logandyer45]

That made me laugh. :P

Anyway, I can't wait for the unmute, It feels like it's been forever. I understand why .com is last, and I don't mind being last either.

I get his Twitter updates sent to my phone<3

[sex]

there is a few more than 3/4 hotel, in total there is 11 hotels in total

United Kingdom
United states
Australia
Canada
India
Malaysia
New Zealand
Philippines
Singapore
Ireland (southern)
and finally Brazil

all the english speaking hotels were merged together

the brazilian hotel was never mereged...... it isn't english speaking also.
there was also never an indian hotel lol?

http://www.habbo.com.br/

idk if .com is the biggest community anymore seeing as it doesnt really get that many users online where as brazilian an spain constantly have 10+
i remember i went on spain before and it had like 30k people online :o

[Logandyer45]

the brazilian hotel was never mereged...... it isn't english speaking also.
there was also never an indian hotel lol?

http://www.habbo.com.br/

idk if .com is the biggest community anymore seeing as it doesnt really get that many users online where as brazilian an spain constantly have 10+
i remember i went on spain before and it had like 30k people online :o

Reason is people wanna talk. .com will become more popular when Paul unmutes us. If you go to the spain hotel, you can translate the questions with ease and get the answers right, or guess. I got 5/5 and can talk. It's really hard to say American words tho. So, most likely we are not gonna have foreigners on our hotel.

[santa-my-nana]

the brazilian hotel was never mereged...... it isn't english speaking also.
there was also never an indian hotel lol?

http://www.habbo.com.br/

idk if .com is the biggest community anymore seeing as it doesnt really get that many users online where as brazilian an spain constantly have 10+
i remember i went on spain before and it had like 30k people online :o

I'm shore there are parts of brazil that is english speaking on habbo.com and are you sure, ????? :P

[Mathew]

Final checks on current systems in process. Steadily we return to normal."

nice of him to admit that his changes will have no effect in the slightest. :P

[Logandyer45]

nice of him to admit that his changes will have no effect in the slightest. :P

Lol. I see this being a big blow up.

[Plebings]

of course we're going to be last.

sulake need this to be perfect, they can't afford more criticism from the media, the longer the wait is, the less media will wait with bated breath.

[GOLD-VICAR]

Good stuff, can't wait to be honest.

[MKR&*42]

Ezio; hah; santa-my-nana;

We are not the biggest community. .com.br/.pt is. Followed by .es and then .com.

As people have said, all the focus was on .com hence us being unmuted last. I feel sorry for the really small hotels though - .fi, .se and .no get very little users online so a 2 week mute wasn't really necessary for them. Hence .fi being unmuted first.

[JustinNewcastle]

It's really hard to say American words tho. So, most likely we are not gonna have foreigners on our hotel.

This is something that worries me a lot. Our .com hotel has a lot of foreigners who have no hotel for their own language, especially people from Malaysia/SG and the Philippines. Perhaps they will add words from those languages to the whitelist, but I bet not, resulting in even fewer users on our site. I have a lot of friends from those countries on habbo so it will really be a pity if they can't use the site with their home-country friends.

[santa-my-nana]

This is something that worries me a lot. Our .com hotel has a lot of foreigners who have no hotel for their own language, especially people from Malaysia/SG and the Philippines. Perhaps they will add words from those languages to the whitelist, but I bet not, resulting in even fewer users on our site. I have a lot of friends from those countries on habbo so it will really be a pity if they can't use the site with their home-country friends.

and will they add the american version of words or the british version or both such as crisps/chips. Theres plenty of others but it's still a bit of a HMMM

[Zak]

this is all getting a bit of a joke now

[Mark]

this is all getting a bit of a joke now

Couldn't agree more, it's taking far, far too long!

[xxMATTGxx]

New blog post:


Habbos,

In the next 24 hours, we are opening limited communication in the Norwegian, Swedish and Danish language sites. We are doing final reviews for the restoration of the English speaking site and will have news on that later this week. We are working full time to restore the connections in our Community.

Over the last six months, we have tried several new communication methods to discuss the needs of the Communities with you. Some you have embraced, some you have not. Your feedback, which culminated in The Great Unmute, told us several important things. Friendships are all important. Campaigns must return. Clearly written articles describing latest news on the workings of the site must return. More contests. Revive Hobbas.

We’ve heard you and we are going to bring back a lot of these things as quickly as we can. Hobbas will come back in an updated form known as Guardians almost immediately. We will have campaigns in July and August that will have a greater focus on contests. We are going to make news more available and easier to find. We are going to gather feedback and encourage discussion about Habbo on our site. When we launch that, I will spend less time on external social media and more time in our site discussing Habbo with you.

To ensure we have a community that is as safe as possible, all Habbos have to earn the right to free expression. To do that you will have passed the security quiz and have spent enough time in the limited chat portion of the service to learn the Habbo Way. Once you have earned the Community’s trust, it is your responsibility to keep it. That means you do not engage in inappropriate behavior nor tolerate those who do. Engage or tolerate? Depending on severity, you will be asked to leave to start over from the beginning.

To earn your trust we will always protect your privacy and anonymity. We are deploying monitoring software that detects patterns of inappropriate behavior and we will continue to devote a majority of our resources to keeping the site a place that does not tolerate inappropriate behavior. And as Staff who supports your Community, we always engage in a discussion about what you need, and how we can do better.

All of this together means more to do, more friends to have and an environment of trust where safety is a shared responsibility and we all know it works.

Thanks,
Paul

http://blog.habbo.com/2012/07/03/community-update/

[funn]

Well it looks like this week we will still be muted... Just great.

[tm]

Just read it. Looks like good news generally.


I will spend less time on external social media and more time in our site discussing Habbo with you.
http://blog.habbo.com/2012/07/03/community-update/That's the best part in my opinion. IF he sticks to it.

[GommeInc]

Just read it. Looks like good news generally.

That's the best part in my opinion. IF he sticks to it.
He won't, and it's all irrelevant. He really should just get kicked out of the CEO position. He's a hopeless twit, he seems more concerned about his e-reputation than the business he is meant to actually be running.

[Samantha]

Has he **** been working 6 months to communicate with us. He rarely communicated in the Habbo Council in April/May so no he hasn't.

Seriously, why can't he admit when he's wrong - I don't agree with Hobbas or Guardians, in the Council he leaked the info and prospectus to us saying that they would need level 9 online time, level 10 respect badges and 4 years true Habbo, yeah I don't see that happening! He doesn't listen, if he did he would have done when people needed him and offered him advice.

[GommeInc]

Has he **** been working 6 months to communicate with us. He rarely communicated in the Habbo Council in April/May so no he hasn't.

Seriously, why can't he admit when he's wrong - I don't agree with Hobbas or Guardians, in the Council he leaked the info and prospectus to us saying that they would need level 9 online time, level 10 respect badges and 4 years true Habbo, yeah I don't see that happening! He doesn't listen, if he did he would have done when people needed him and offered him advice.
Exactly! Why is he still the CEO of Sulake when he is clearly a bumbling buffoon? It makes no sense, he clearly doesn't know how serious running a business is and just won't accept he is wrong and make obvious changes. He's a completely narcisstic, arrogant and idiotic man! Any one of us on here can do a better job.

It's shocking that people try to support him by saying "He's only been CEO since September!" So? He should of been aware of the problems on day one, not sitting behind a computer on Twitter giving himself some self-love. A ships captain wouldn't take over from the previous one on a sinking ship going "Well this is all fine, time to sit back and relax." Urgh.

[Samantha]

Exactly! Why is he still the CEO of Sulake when he is clearly a bumbling buffoon? It makes no sense, he clearly doesn't know how serious running a business is and just won't accept he is wrong and make obvious changes. He's a completely narcisstic, arrogant and idiotic man! Any one of us on here can do a better job.

It's shocking that people try to support him by saying "He's only been CEO since September!" So? He should of been aware of the problems on day one, not sitting behind a computer on Twitter giving himself some self-love. A ships captain wouldn't take over from the previous one on a sinking ship going "Well this is all fine, time to sit back and relax." Urgh.

Yeah I don't think they consider that September is 10 months ago, that's more than enough time and him saying over the past 6 months he's been doing something about it when really he should have done something about it for 10 months.

[Storking]

Very happy about this. 5% faith restored in Habbo. :D

"Friendships are all important. Campaigns must return. Clearly written articles describing latest news on the workings of the site must return. More contests. Revive Hobbas.

We’ve heard you and we are going to bring back a lot of these things as quickly as we can. Hobbas will come back in an updated form known as Guardians almost immediately. We will have campaigns in July and August that will have a greater focus on contests. We are going to make news more available and easier to find."

[MKR&*42]

Going back onto points from earlier, I hope they allow multi-lingual users into hotels? :S I often have German friends (and some Turkish friends :D) on .com and for them to not be able to speak their own language is a real shame if we want to hang out on the same hotel :/.

[santa-my-nana]

Going back onto points from earlier, I hope they allow multi-lingual users into hotels? :S I often have German friends (and some Turkish friends :D) on .com and for them to not be able to speak their own language is a real shame if we want to hang out on the same hotel :/.

I completely agree, I have german and spanish friends that come on sometimes. I would like to know which linguistic version of english they will be using (american or British)

[MKR&*42]

I completely agree, I have german and spanish friends that come on sometimes. I would like to know which linguistic version of english they will be using (american or British)

Yes omfg, if they don't account ALL British English words, I am going to shoot them. The only Americanised version of a word I used is "traveled". They better account all British English words ;l (they make American English the priority sigh). I'd rather not have a filter for saying "Yoghurt" :l

[Red]

Going back onto points from earlier, I hope they allow multi-lingual users into hotels? :S I often have German friends (and some Turkish friends :D) on .com and for them to not be able to speak their own language is a real shame if we want to hang out on the same hotel :/.

Yea theres a lot of dutch people and stuff but Paul said they will have to earn their way in english.
omg never thought about that! words better not be in american english.

[MKR&*42]

Yea theres a lot of dutch people and stuff but Paul said they will have to earn their way in english.
omg never thought about that! words better not be in american english.

Earn their way into English... wow ok. Completely forgot languages can be learnt in a few months, oh wait lol. English is taught in a lot of countries, but trying to force them into learning it is rather unfair :/ Just because the guy himself knows about 4 languages it doesn't mean everyone else has the knowledge to do that.

Isn't English a very complicated language to learn anyway? xD

[santa-my-nana]

Yes omfg, if they don't account ALL British English words, I am going to shoot them. The only Americanised version of a word I used is "traveled". They better account all British English words ;l (they make American English the priority sigh). I'd rather not have a filter for saying "Yoghurt" :l

I know right, I don't want to say Yogurt, it's annoying the american versions of some words. really is

Like Our (flavour, colour) becomes flavor and color (that is so annoying)
and "re" become "er"
"ce" to "se"

so many differances

[Red]

Well I am guessing they will eventually be able to use whatever language they like? but yea and it sorta stops us from speaking on other foreign hotels too.

[MKR&*42]

I know right, I don't want to say Yogurt, it's annoying the american versions of some words. really is

Like Our (flavour, colour) becomes flavor and color (that is so annoying)
and "re" become "er"
"ce" to "se"

so many differances

Not to mention how they want to replace every bloody s with a z:

Organize
Realize
Apologize

THERE IS NO NEED TO DO THAT. If you say "Sorry" and then say "Realise", there is little to no difference between the S in each word, it doesn't need to be replaced by a z.

Don't even get me started on why they haven't dropped the k from "knife" if they want to drop letters.
Red; Yeah ;l I often go on the German hotel and because I only know limited German, I often have to use English words to speak with friends and if I can't do that, my conversations will look half-complete/ridiculous :P

[Red]

had to tweet him about this omg. will not be amused!! Already irritates me how furni names use American spelling :@

[Okeanos]

duno why people are moaning and saying paul doesnt listen. he does a lot more than any previous CEO/hotel manager.


Isn't English a very complicated language to learn anyway? xD

no.... it's actually a very easy and simple language to learn.

[MKR&*42]

Haha, it was worse when we had the old groups and the button "Make Favourite" changed to "Make favorite". It pissed me off so much :/

I don't even know why they use American English. Don't Singapore, Australia and Canada use British English? :S. Red; <<
Okeanos; (idk if I spelt that right, sorry :() - hm ok.

[Red]

duno why people are moaning and saying paul doesnt listen. he does a lot more than any previous CEO/hotel manager.



no.... it's actually a very easy and simple language to learn.

Well no he doesn't. People moaned for god knows how long about poor moderation and instead he wrote on his blog about how fabulous his team were. He said competitions were unfair and removed them, despite what everyone else thought. People complained for articles to be brought back and I remember he tweeted back something ridiculous like statistics show more habbos want credits than articles. Paul listens to who he wants to listen too tbh.

[Jarkie]

Just read it. Looks like good news generally.

That's the best part in my opinion. IF he sticks to it.

He wont stick with it, he will do it for the first couple of weeks to get back into our good books; no doubt he will throw in another 100 badges about the 'Great unmute'.

Apparently we are rumoured to be unmuted this week, however Paul hasn't confirmed it officially yet. '-.-

[GommeInc]

Yea theres a lot of dutch people and stuff but Paul said they will have to earn their way in english.
omg never thought about that! words better not be in american english.
I wish he was joking, but knowing him he's serious. Paul's stupid so it's best not to pay any attention to him. Unfortunately, Habbos around the globe are stuck with him.

Can't they just have a huge, global filter which all hotels work off of (to allow all languages), and then allow each individual hotel to block harmful foreign words which in one hotel are considered harmless while in another offensive? Is that too simple or are they showing their weaknesses in the head department again?

[MKR&*42]

I wish he was joking, but knowing him he's serious. Paul's stupid so it's best not to pay any attention to him. Unfortunately, Habbos around the globe are stuck with him.

Can't they just have a huge, global filter which all hotels work off of (to allow all languages), and then allow each individual hotel to block harmful foreign words which in one hotel are considered harmless while in another offensive? Is that too simple or are they showing their weaknesses in the head department again?

It shouldn't be that hard at all :/ It was how it worked previously yet it wasn't updated enough on .com (C@m se% wasn't filtered lol). If they maybe dedicated time to getting rid of the large majority of ways to bypass the filter - especially sex-wise - then we wouldn't have a bloody whitelist which restricts multi-lingual users and basic chat in general. Sure, we can get out the basic chat (by earning our way out somehow) but the multi-lingual users is still an issue ;/ + American vs British English.

Seriously, if they had just made the old filter stricter by catching out alternatives - e.g. Se% - then we wouldn't be in this massive drama atm. And certain words were blocked on other hotels, you couldn't say SS (for SnowStorm) on .de for obvious reasons :P

[GommeInc]

It shouldn't be that hard at all :/ It was how it worked previously yet it wasn't updated enough on .com (C@m se% wasn't filtered lol). If they maybe dedicated time to getting rid of the large majority of ways to bypass the filter - especially sex-wise - then we wouldn't have a bloody whitelist which restricts multi-lingual users and basic chat in general. Sure, we can get out the basic chat (by earning our way out somehow) but the multi-lingual users is still an issue ;/ + American vs British English.

Seriously, if they had just made the old filter stricter by catching out alternatives - e.g. Se% - then we wouldn't be in this massive drama atm. And certain words were blocked on other hotels, you couldn't say SS (for SnowStorm) on .de for obvious reasons :P
Runescape is a good model for Habbo. Their filter picked up irregularities in conversation. I think moderators used to pick up on people talking in symbols - because why else would you need to? So when someone starts chucking symbols into conversations, they must be watched because they could be up to no good. It makes no sense why Sulake or so disorganised. If anything, they're a prime example of an organised chaos - they try to be professional but muck up in the details and execution.

Runescape even had a global filter. If Habbo can convert it into a whitelist filter, so all languages are involved, then all hotels can be multi-lingual without discriminating against 'foreign' users. Either that, or not have a whitelist filter and stop being so damn lazy and have moderators and a system in place to pick up on irregular and dodgy conversations, like they should be doing on a sensitive site like Habbo :/

[Empired]

It shouldn't be that hard at all :/ It was how it worked previously yet it wasn't updated enough on .com (C@m se% wasn't filtered lol). If they maybe dedicated time to getting rid of the large majority of ways to bypass the filter - especially sex-wise - then we wouldn't have a bloody whitelist which restricts multi-lingual users and basic chat in general. Sure, we can get out the basic chat (by earning our way out somehow) but the multi-lingual users is still an issue ;/ + American vs British English.

Seriously, if they had just made the old filter stricter by catching out alternatives - e.g. Se% - then we wouldn't be in this massive drama atm. And certain words were blocked on other hotels, you couldn't say SS (for SnowStorm) on .de for obvious reasons :P
Or we could have MODs who react to calls for help if a user is being asked for sex instead of just saying "mute them". Obviously we'd still need a blacklist, but they can't block every single word, especially if it's being spelt $3X or something. Then we could get rid of the whitelist. Yeah ok, that's a lot for MODs to go through every call for help, but isn't that what MODs are for :S

[MKR&*42]

Runescape is a good model for Habbo. Their filter picked up irregularities in conversation. I think moderators used to pick up on people talking in symbols - because why else would you need to? So when someone starts chucking symbols into conversations, they must be watched because they could be up to no good. It makes no sense why Sulake or so disorganised. If anything, they're a prime example of an organised chaos - they try to be professional but muck up in the details and execution.

Runescape even had a global filter. If Habbo can convert it into a whitelist filter, so all languages are involved, then all hotels can be multi-lingual without discriminating against 'foreign' users. Either that, or not have a whitelist filter and stop being so damn lazy and have moderators and a system in place to pick up on irregular and dodgy conversations, like they should be doing on a sensitive site like Habbo :/

How does the filter even work on Habbo? What words does it even pick up - only remotely sexual ones? I wouldn't put it past them to not have a filter because the amount of sexual talk going on was disgraceful, a filter would have picked up more than enough of those conversations if it was half-decent (like Runescape's as you said... that's probably the only thing I've ever liked about Runescape now :P).

It's a wonder they didn't pick up on the "@" symbol out of everything tbh? I used it so much for giving out MSN to people and you know how the MODs are over personal info :P. But yeah, I understand what you mean by not needing to use symbols... very little point in it on Habbo.

I don't think they can adapt to a whitelist which allows all languages due to them adding the words manually. If they wish to spend 100s of hours going through the 1000s of languages on this planet and adding them to the white list, it's just unnecessary and time-wasting > A strict "black list" is a much easier option.

Picking up on symbols is a very good idea though aha. I would go tell Paul but 1 - He doesn't care. 2 - I don't like Twitter ;l. 3 - They're never going to improve moderation unless it involves Guardian Hobbas :rolleyes:

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BamitsElfie!; Of course they can't block EVERY word. But as they have done with the poll in the Picnic on foreign hotels, create a poll-like thing and ask users to submit words that they know can be used to ask for sex or whatever. Not sure how many would be willing to do that, but I certainly would aha.

Their only downfall would be apostrophes though. I believe I could type C''''A''''M without it being filtered, apostrophes seem to allow a lot to bypass the filter (especially the number filter on forums).

[Zak]

Runescape is a good model for Habbo. Their filter picked up irregularities in conversation. I think moderators used to pick up on people talking in symbols - because why else would you need to? So when someone starts chucking symbols into conversations, they must be watched because they could be up to no good. It makes no sense why Sulake or so disorganised. If anything, they're a prime example of an organised chaos - they try to be professional but muck up in the details and execution.

Runescape even had a global filter. If Habbo can convert it into a whitelist filter, so all languages are involved, then all hotels can be multi-lingual without discriminating against 'foreign' users. Either that, or not have a whitelist filter and stop being so damn lazy and have moderators and a system in place to pick up on irregular and dodgy conversations, like they should be doing on a sensitive site like Habbo :/

I was just going to mention Runescape and Habbo can really learn from it. Playing both games for many years I really get the feeling that the staff at Jagex really do care and listen to the communities opinions.. I have no idea if that has anything to do with it being an English company or simply possessing better, more capable staff..

Sulake doesn't seem bothered about anything other than profit, as long as they're selling furniture they don't care. I know this is the main focus of every business but they need to keep their fan base happy to maintain/increase on their current profit.. The community usually know a lot more about the game than the staff, as their experience of being on the game will far surpass many staff working for the company.. so they should really pay a lot more attention to what we want and not just what they want to hear

[Wyked]

Jagex used to care about their community, however they do not give a monkeys any longer about community, so much so that the High level forums on runescape is just full of maxed players slating the Jagex team, and rightly so.

The filter however works to an extent of filtering words, but it doesnt stop autotypers or gold farming sites, so it's still a pile of ****.

In summary, not much to learn from Jagex.

[Kodger]

To be honest Habbo might as well close. The mute has caused so much **** that the .com hotel peaks at barely 2.5k which is gob smacking considering it's the main hotel for 5 countries, one of them being the US - one of the most populated globally.

It's just a shambles.

The runescape comment is interesting. All Sulake need to do is be able to identify a user who uses specific words immediately, then monitor their conversations to see where it's going. Job done.

[PiippBB]

To be honest Habbo might as well close. The mute has caused so much **** that the .com hotel peaks at barely 2.5k which is gob smacking considering it's the main hotel for 5 countries, one of them being the US - one of the most populated globally.

It's just a shambles.

The runescape comment is interesting. All Sulake need to do is be able to identify a user who uses specific words immediately, then monitor their conversations to see where it's going. Job done.

Well it will peak low right now; we're still silent after three weeks. I'm confident that the visitor count will steadily increase once the mute has ended, but don't expect too much all at once. I daresay it will take some people at least a few days to even realise the hotel has been unmuted before they start logging on again. I'm pretty sure though that after a few weeks the numbers will be back up close to where they used to be.

[Okeanos]

the things people are asking to be brought back are the very things nearly everyone on this forum was pleased to see go a few years back - make up your mind. paul isnt perfect, but he communicates much more than anybody else used to @Red

[PiippBB]

the things people are asking to be brought back are the very things nearly everyone on this forum was pleased to see go a few years back - make up your mind. paul isnt perfect, but he communicates much more than anybody else used to @Red

I think the problem with some of it is nostalgia. People don't remember the problems caused by the Hobba system, they just want to be one. They don't remember the bad aspects of some of these features; there's a good reason most of them were removed. I can understand bringing back things like the in site news however.

[Red]

the things people are asking to be brought back are the very things nearly everyone on this forum was pleased to see go a few years back - make up your mind. paul isnt perfect, but he communicates much more than anybody else used to @Red
Well I never wanted hobbas/xs returning and theres a good few members on here who are equally against a similar programme being introduced. There is always divided opinions on them though. Pretty sure not many would argue against the return of trained, local moderators or competitions and articles?!? The homepage is an absolute state currently with a lot of good features removed and a twitter feed shoved on. He communicates yea but on twitter, where he gets opinions from a small minority. Communication should be down through habbo. He blocks anyone he doesn't like and doesn't take any criticism. Plus, it annoyed me how he tripped on about habbo cms, when he should have been sorting out the appalling moderation/customer support.

[PiippBB]

Well I never wanted hobbas/xs returning and theres a good few members on here who are equally against a similar programme being introduced. There is always divided opinions on them though. Pretty sure not many would argue against the return of trained, local moderators or competitions and articles?!? The homepage is an absolute state currently with a lot of good features removed and a twitter feed shoved on. He communicates yea but on twitter, where he gets opinions from a small minority. Communication should be down through habbo. He blocks anyone he doesn't like and doesn't take any criticism. Plus, it annoyed me how he tripped on about habbo cms, when he should have been sorting out the appalling moderation/customer support.

You're right about the site. They shouldn't be encouraging users onto Twitter; in my opinion it only encourages the type of 'culture' they are trying to change. Sites like Neopets (probably not the best example now they user FB, but they still insist users are old enough to use the service and FB is intended at a target audience of over 13s) work so well because they completely cut out links to any other sites. They actively punish users who try to take topics elsewhere; this is what Sulake need to exercise within Habbo.

[Kodger]

I wasn't on Habbo during the Hobba rein and I was too young to really remember the X's, I just thought they were gods an wanted to be one, so from a personal point I'd like to see similar return. However, a social media site/game more or less ran by its members isn't good. But tbh, it's a game and people shouldn't be stupid enough to go on cam and exchange details with faceless randomers.

[CatFlaps]

Any updates on when we will be able to speak

[tm]

Any updates on when we will be able to speak

It's 'likely in the next 5 days' according to staff on twitter.

[Jarkie]

I wasn't on Habbo during the Hobba rein and I was too young to really remember the X's, I just thought they were gods an wanted to be one, so from a personal point I'd like to see similar return. However, a social media site/game more or less ran by its members isn't good. But tbh, it's a game and people shouldn't be stupid enough to go on cam and exchange details with faceless randomers.

Hahaa, So true Kodger so true.


Any updates on when we will be able to speak

Rumour has it; this week. But I very doubt it.

[funn]

Paul LaFontaine ‏@PaulLaFo (https://twitter.com/#!/PaulLaFo)
Habbos, the Scandinavians now have their chat back. Next is .com which is planned for the weekend if all goes well. Thanks. #Habbo (https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23Habbo)

[fefobobo]

Habbos, the Scandinavians now have their chat back. Next is .com which is planned for the weekend if all goes well. Thanks.

https://twitter.com/PaulLaFo/status/220520529147334659

paul has said on twitter that the chat for .com will be up on the weekend, if all goes to plan???

Are you all excited?

Threads merged by Jordan (Forum Super Moderator): Please keep all mute related content here

[Jarkie]

Sulake staff work on weekends?! what sorcery is this?!

Also; do you have the twitter link?

[fefobobo]

yep done

[:odey:]

Sulake staff work on weekends?! what sorcery is this?!

I thought this, haha,

I've never known anything happen over the weekends before.. :P

Believe it when I see it, is all I can say,
Hope it is unmuted then, but, I'm still very doubtful...

[Aaron]

Just look at Paul's tweets, here's one that caught my eye from earlier.

https://twitter.com/PaulLaFo/status/220522411202846720

So the limited chat is to prove a point.. interesting..

[Jarkie]

I say it be early next week lol.

[:odey:]

Just look at Paul's tweets, here's one that caught my eye from earlier.

https://twitter.com/PaulLaFo/status/220522411202846720

So the limited chat is to prove a point.. interesting..

I don't really mind the fact that the chat is going to be a little limited to begin with,
I think that's quite a good move,

Thanks for the link :)