March in general wasn't appearing to be a very good month for Habbox in most areas, HxL had seen a major rise in February however this dropped a bit in March, the forum took a huge hit in March also in comparison to the first two months of the year - we were quite worried, I know myself & Matt actually got to the stage where we really didn't know what to do, we knew v6 would possibly improve things however this was scheduled to be released only this week.
Then, the downtime happened. This was again was a really worrying time, to remove our services from users for almost a week was going to take a toll on the large amount of users we have who float around fansites, a really hard hit to HabboxLive. Fortunately all you forum addicts couldn't wait to get back on and the downtime actually benefitted the forum and in the two days we came back before v6 we achieved a phenomenal amount of posts per day - that just goes to show how many of us are addicted.
Then V6 was released and everything has started going up up up, I'm not going to attribute everything to V6 as managers have been working phenomenally hard, what made me laugh the other day is Mathew came to me and said "**** there's only two events it looks so bad on the homepage, need to sort that" - and let's face it the events timetable on Habbox.com always looks impressive nowadays. I think Habbox.com will now bring a lot more new people to Habbox, especially through our subscription system for Job Apps - already a large amount of users have submitted their email addresses for notifications when applications open.
Generally, we've got ourselves back on to the right tracks, Habbox.com is now something to be proud of rather than the awful v5 we tried to pretend didn't really exist as it was such an embarassment (with no offence to the creators of v5). We still have a long way to go and someone said something about the summer - I really can't wait until the summer because Habbox is strong at the moment and we're only gonna go further in my opinion, we have so much planned for even the coming month that I can only see positive things.
Obviously things'll slow down for exam periods but this summer will be good for Habbox and I think we could be hitting records this summer, the highest ever amount of posts in a month was recorded in July 2008 - we could beat this, Jess was telling me the other day she thinks HabboxLive will break the record for longest amount of time the radio is on air for. xxMATTGxx and I are looking to set a special Habbox record soon so watch out for that one.
V6 makes things easier for everyone, users, staff, management and guests and at the moment and knowing what we have planned for v6 I think our limits are way above those of any other Habbo fansite. This is a time to be proud to be part of Habbox and it really is only gonna get better. Well done to all![]()



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