Fansite Podcast with Paul La Fontaine

[xxMATTGxx]

CEO of Sulake Paul LaFontaine answered some questions that were submitted by fansites. The questions were then asked to Paul by Fansites_Jason from Twitter. He explains what is happening to Habbo at the moment and also goes on about what kind of things we should expect in the neat future and what sort of things fansites can expect also.

Main points:

• Habbo is modernizing and getting up to date
• We are learning from what works in social media and adapting it for Habbo
• If we (Habbo) are social media we should use social media. Discuss and listen to our users on what we are building. Users can guide us and give us expert advice. If we listen to our users and build what they want – we will end up with a ridiculously fun service
• A good fansite is any fansite that’s interesting without broken links and provides trusted content about Habbo (those on our mailing list are considered official).
• Free VIP is going to be made available to Fansite owners (the keeper). More of this to follow from Jason.
• We will create ingame badges so they can be displayed ingame. More of this to follow from Jason
• Spamming users your site is irritating to users and effects user experience.
• 2 points on promotion: We do not want to promote one over the other, we don’t want an unbalanced playing field. We will start with a fair system and we will go from there. @<a href="http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=95412" target="_blank">paulla</a>Fo is happy to engage with you on promotion of fansites on Habbo. You can catch him on Twitter.
• Promoting events: Events with fansites need to be carefully designed. We are pulling back from using local producers to helping local sites with events.
• We are open to new ideas. If they make you and Habbo better then we want to hear it.

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Download Links:

Main Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?ka19keq8dp6rq48
Alternative: https://habbox.com/other/podcast.wav

[Mathew]

Oh how cool, although I do expect there's going to be a sudden surge in the amount of fansites now that there's the promise of free VIP and badges. I hope Habbo don't dish the official status around left, right and centre though - it's good to have some exclusivity for the very best.

[xxMATTGxx]

Oh how cool, although I do expect there's going to be a sudden surge in the amount of fansites now that there's the promise of free VIP and badges. I hope Habbo don't dish the official status around left, right and centre though - it's good to have some exclusivity for the very best.

Only 1 person will get VIP and the in-game badge is just like before with a limit of 2-3 per fansite. The bit about in-game badges is still to be decided. Jason also stated that he checks fansites before adding them to the list and he will check the list every so often and remove fansites that are no longer active etc.

[Mathew]

Mmmm, fair enough then I guess. Really hope they can keep this up.

[xxMATTGxx]

I've uploaded it to YouTube for easy access if you don't want to bother downloading it and things:

[Chippiewill]

I've uploaded it to YouTube for easy access if you don't want to bother downloading it and things:

If you have any weight with them could you perhaps suggest that they get a better mic, and probably one each, sounds like they're in a pineapple... under the sea.

[Mathew]

Ha, nice piece of advertising there...

[Zuth]

Seems pretty cool, liking some of the updates

[Michael]

• Free VIP is going to be made available to Fansite owners (the keeper). More of this to follow from Jason.

Free VIP into events lol.

[xxMATTGxx]

Free VIP into events lol.

I think there's a bit of confusion over that because Jason said something about giving VIP to more than one owner is £££ so I'm not sure if they would be giving fansites VIP to hand out in events.