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

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

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

They haven't been open enough near long enough to know how much it costs and will probably close in a short of period of time. Considering Habbox has been around for 10 years, a lot of fansites have opened and closed during that time.

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They haven't been open enough near long enough to know how much it costs and will probably close in a short of period of time. Considering Habbox has been around for 10 years, a lot of fansites have opened and closed during that time.

Loads of them have been opened for years to be fair.

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

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.

[RyRy]

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

Not everybody is skilled enough to host a Tumblr fansite unfortunately.

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Well if the fansites are not happy with the result it just shows they are in it for money rather than what a fansite is supposed to be about.

None of us who are against this gain any money :S People are unhappy with it because we know the various fansites are going to suffer.

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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.

I guess you missed the part that said "several other OFFICIAL fansites"

[RyRy]

I guess you missed the part that said "several other OFFICIAL fansites"

Name which ones can provide without donations?

I bet they're almost all newly appointed.

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I guess you missed the part that said "several other OFFICIAL fansites"

Yes, I was concentrating on Habbox. Maybe you're not aware but that's the site we're both currently on and contributing towards so it'd make the most sense to use it as the example.

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None of us who are against this gain any money :S People are unhappy with it because we know the various fansites are going to suffer.

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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Name which ones can provide without donations?

I bet they're almost all newly appointed.

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