Habbo Central (New Official Fansite) Stolen Layout from Retro Fansite

The title basically explains it all, brand new official site http://habbo-central.net stole basically their entire layout from another website. But not just any website, a retro hotel fansite!

*REMOVED*

The proof is shown by looking at the websites, and also by something very interesting: If you open up developer tools for chrome (or any other browser with the function), and you look at the index code, you actually find the name of the site they took the layout from!

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

Also if you were on the site a couple days ago, when it was recently announced official, you could still have seen some problems with the main site (lots of graphical bugs and weird looking text). I think this was because they were still editing the actual layout after taking it.

Now this also may just be a case where they asked for the layout (which I hardly believe any fansite would just give out their layout), but still, official fansites should not be getting involved with retros and visiting them and their affiliates! Another possibility is that they took a free layout from one of those free fansite layout sites, and just happened to have YouBoon in the code. But again, very unlikely.

And that's all I guess.

Edited by e5 (Forum Super Moderator) - Please do name name/link to retro sites, even with spoilers, thanks!

I saw your tweet but if this is true, extremely appalling for an OFFICIAL fansite.



On another note, they probably won't last long anyway.

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Originally Posted by bloop

I saw your tweet but if this is true, extremely appalling for an OFFICIAL fansite.



On another note, they probably won't last long anyway.

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It's true, both websites have pretty much near enough the same layout. So it's either a free template they have both used from someone or someone has stolen it from each other. But the screen shot that shows:

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Is on the Habbo-Central site for sure.

Wtf that's pretty disgraceful if they were the ones who stole it tbh? Hope Sulake have been informed :P

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Originally Posted by Intersocial

Wtf that's pretty disgraceful if they were the ones who stole it tbh? Hope Sulake have been informed :P

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Hmm, giving me ideas :--------------)

Shame its been ripped

It's a trash of a fansite anyway - no real use of a fansite, has nothing different and don't think it will either in the future. Hopefully Sulake will not only remove them from the official list but also make sure they're no longer a fansite.

I do get annoyed, sorry. Wish fansites had a little creativity nowadays, that's all.

Update: Habbo-Central seems to be offline. Maybe to change their layout?

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Originally Posted by ghhghgh

Update: Habbo-Central seems to be offline. Maybe to change their layout?

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You wouldn't normally park the domain name to carry out changes on your website. But who knows what their plan is.

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Originally Posted by ghhghgh

Update: Habbo-Central seems to be offline. Maybe to change their layout?

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I vaguely remembered them saying on twitter they're changing their layout or sth. Oh no I missed the chance :(.

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Originally Posted by xxMATTGxx

You wouldn't normally park the domain name to carry out changes on your website. But who knows what their plan is.

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Update: Habbo list the domain name as: habbo-central.net but is actually hyperlinked to their .ORG address which is: http://www.habbo-central.org/ and it will load a maintenance page.

What is a retro fansite exactly? I've never heard of them.

that looks like the thishabbo summer layout LMAO

Little bit of an update: They opened it back up and all they did basically was remove the retro fansites name from the code (here's a picture):
http://i.imgur.com/OuZYgGr.png

Pathetic to be fair, habbo pay no attention anyway.

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Pathetic to be fair, habbo pay no attention anyway.

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@xxMATTGxx; did say before many ip addresses come from sulake to browse the news and gossip frm habbo/x because we're fab. i hope they didnt close one eye of this. @Macklebee; @oftenMiceElf;
its actually interesting how habbocentral wont sign up and defend themselves over this like most staff of fansites do heh :')

*hums to self*
someone quoted me and tagged cowboystyle too lolol

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*hums to self*
someone quoted me and tagged cowboystyle too lolol

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That'd be me :P.
I may have also submitted a ticket to Habbo... oops.

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That'd be me :P.
I may have also submitted a ticket to Habbo... oops.

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well i think they would have two tickets soon then... ;)

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well i think they would have two tickets soon then... ;)

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The more the merrier though I have lost faith in Habbo's support with previous tickets being closed without any action and some were bug reports where bugs are still present...

http://i.imgur.com/lqLh0KX.png

such a shame they stole a layout, and didn't even try and hide it? What's with the Times New Roman fonts anyway??