Breaking News: is this the end of fansites, goodbye Habbox?

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Originally Posted by Hidden

Several other official fansites can run without donator and adverts, why can't you?

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do you understand how the economy works


if a website has no income how is it supposed to pay for hosting, streaming etc etc? Magic beans?

Hmmm.

Official fansites that have donator/"vip";

Habbox
HFFM
HabboKingdom
HabbCrazy
Puhekupla (well, did till recently)
ThisHabbo
FlyHabbo
HabboHut

Those that don't

Habbosphere
Habbotiles
HabboCreation
Habbo Wiki

Out of those that don't, how many have a site + a forum:
oh... none.

Habbo wiki would cost nothing as it's based upon a free template provided by wikia, as for Habbotiles and Habbosphere they are some of the least active fansites on the .com hotel...

But of course "plenty" don't need donator.

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Just checked, Habbosphere is opening a forum soon and 90% sure they'll offer VIP.

http://puhekupla.com/en/donators


was it that hard?

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Originally Posted by RyRy

Name which ones can provide without donations?

I bet they're almost all newly appointed.

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Look at my most recent post. Two of them are recent, the rest are barely heard of on the .com hotel :P

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Originally Posted by Hidden

http://puhekupla.com/en/donators


was it that hard?

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It's been like that for ages, no quibble or fuss.

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Originally Posted by Hidden

http://puhekupla.com/en/donators


was it that hard?

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No, it's not hard to remove a page. It's the principles behind it which is stopping fansite owners/managers from doing it.

fansites shouldn't have a 'cap' on their audience, if a fansite becomes popular it should be congratulated, not punished.

Wonder how / if Habbox will survive now, or any of the other sites now meh

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Originally Posted by Hidden

I understand the point of fansites suffering and using it to gain money to run the site, adverts are still being discussed which also gains them money to run the site. So I don't get why they are so bothered if they can just upload an advert or so then gain money from that to help the site if it's such a problem.

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Theres a list called official fansites, I guess you can get the information if you really desire it.

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I absolutely desire it. Here's a list of all fansites that don't have a donations page:

http://habbosphere.com
http://www.habbotiles.net
http://habbo.wikia.com/wiki - Doesn't have one because it's hosted on the wikia platform. No payment required
http://habbocreation.com

So we have 3 websites that don't ask for donations. "Several other fansites" he said.

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Originally Posted by passion

You must be new to computers. New, tacky and unofficial sites don't have the content that the old and official ones do. Habbox has tens of thousands of members and millions of posts. To maintain all of this Habbox will have to pay a lot more than most sites. It's a lot to hold and process.

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This.

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Originally Posted by Hidden

I understand the point of fansites suffering and using it to gain money to run the site, adverts are still being discussed which also gains them money to run the site. So I don't get why they are so bothered if they can just upload an advert or so then gain money from that to help the site if it's such a problem.

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Theres a list called official fansites, I guess you can get the information if you really desire it.

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I believe ads bring in less revenue than Donator, but I could be wrong. What I don't understand is why you went through the effort to report the whole thing in the first place?