Habbox

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Habbox was founded in the summer of 2003 by Mizki. Habbox started out as a small project for Mizki but she soon started to realize that she needed other people to help her with the site. This is where Sierk came to learn of Habbox and he and Mizki soon became good friends and as Sierk took more of a development role for the site he was then handed the reigns and Mizki handed full ownership of the site to Sierk and he has been the owner ever since. In late 2009 Jin became Co-Owner of Habbox after many years working at the site as Sierk no longer took an active role in the ownership of Habbox. Habbox consists of Habbox.com, HabboxLive.com, HabboxForum.com and new to 2012: HabboxWiki.com.

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Departments at Habbox

Habbox wouldn't be able to run without its departments:

Events

Today, the Events Department is one of the most valued and most important departments on Habbox.
Our primary job is to promote the fansite in and around Habbo Hotel, running creative events that are fun and exciting for other users to take part in! We have a team of dedicated Events Organisers whose job it is to run these events and get the Habbox name out there!

Competitions

Habbox's Competitions department involves people that bring us all monthly competitions with a whole multitude of different things for you all to get your teeth sunk into. From poems to horror stories, competitions offer something for everyone. Not only do they give us endless pleasure with these competitions but as an added bonus there is also Habbox Forum VIP and some Forum Reputation available as prizes as well as some pretty amazing furniture on Habbo.com! If you want to enter the competitions, click here.

Radio / HabboxLive

HabboxLive is Habbox's answer to BBC Radio 2. Habboxlive offers almost 24/7 music from DJ's across the world. It offers the most modern pop tune anthems aswell as some more classic and un-usual choices in music which opens out the range of listening immensely. At off-peak hours, Habboxlive will normally have around 50 unique listeners, sometimes doubling and often more listeners at peak times during the day. No wonder Habboxlive has been voted best fansite radio two years in a row by the fansite awards!

Help Desk

Habbox Help Desk is one of the most important departments here at Habbox! It is a cozy medium sized room on Habbo owned by a member of General Management - currently xxMATTGxx, the General Manager. In this sparkling room there is a team of people stationed ready to assist you, these are known as 'help desk staff'. Help desk staff have been there for Habbo fans for over five years now with ever changing faces, yet consistent high quality help. They provide the link between Habbo and Habbox, aswell as this Habbox Help Desk (or HxHD) offers a wide range of in-game help, as well as a fantastic hub to hangout. The room often has a change of layout due to different events of the year. The room currently has a Summer styled layout!

Content Design

There is only one, small but mighty department that forms the Site Design Team. Although the page is called Site Design the more specific and more commonly used name for the staff members in the department, is Content Designers. All the Staff Members form one department but separately they do different tasks. The job of Content Designers are to update, maintain and write new pages for Habbox.com. Each Content Designer is signed to a page(s) and will work individually to write, code and get graphics until that page is finished. Once the page is finished, they start the process all over again with another page. On the Habbox.com Pages you will see amazing graphics, Content Designers do not create them, that is the job of the Graphics Team. Content Designers very rarely get praise for their work as their work is not name tagged but they do get pride from creating high standard pages.

The Content Department are completely Habbox site based which means you wont see any of them on the site doing their jobs! On the navigator, Content Designers are responsible for updating each section apart from Rare Values and News, these are managed and updated by the Rare Values and News Departments.

The Content Design department also manage the Habbox Wiki.

News

Habbox News currently provides numerous articles both about the Habbo world and the outside world in the spheres of entertainment and technology. There are plenty of breaking news stories posted around the site daily, with some insightful analysis and personalised opinions of some of the best Habbo news reporters around. The news department also offers plenty of chances to get involved by hosting various news based competitions for VIP prizes on the forum.

HabboxForum Moderation

On HabboxForum we have a dedicated team of forum moderators to keep you safe! The moderators range from normal moderators who have their own sections on the forum to moderate, to super moderators who moderate the whole forum. Our moderators will make sure all the users are sticking to the rules by reading all the posts, threads, visitor messages to make sure no-one's being bullied or if anyone's breaking the rules. So you're completely safe!

Graphics

Could you imagine a Habbox without graphics? No? Click here to see. It wouldn't be very nice would it? So that's why we're here, us, the Graphics Designer Team, create graphics for the family of Habbox sites. We work on everything, from this here V6 layout, to the small little icons you see on Habbox Forum. If it's pixelated, we made it.

Rare Values

Habbox Rare Values have been around for years and are the most frequently used values on the Hotel. All values collected are based on the average value from a range of trades which have been seen and noted down by the Rare Values Reporters - they are not made up. The values are updated regularly to keep up with the rise and fall in value of many of the rares, however Habbox is, and has only ever claimed to be, a guide.

Discontinued Habbox Projects / Sites

UploadPicz

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UploadPicz was a free image hosting site - which Habbox owned. The site automatically converted images into thumbnail size, which was perfect for forums and blogs. Uploadpicz also allowed you to view image statistics, for example how many views your image had received.

On the 7th of January 2010 Uploadpicz uploaded its last pic. The decision to axe was due to the fact that the site had become over-populated, becoming increasingly difficult to moderate and was returning poor amounts of revenue. You can read the full statement from Habbox Management regarding the discontinuation of UploadPicz her: http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=621618

HabboxWorld

HabboxWorld was a venture set up in 2007 by Sierk after the closure of the international arms of Habbox which had failed to launch and had became a waste of money and resource. The idea of HabboxWorld was for it to be a place for all international Habbox activities to be held. Due to a decline in its popularity HabboxWorld was later closed to the public in 2008 and was then used as a testing ground for Habboxforum.

HabboxTV

HabboxTV was a department set up in 2005, working from www.habboxtv.com they produced Habbo style flash video's similar to real life programs. The department went through themes such as Halloween themed programs and Christmas themed programs and even produced some well known soaps such as Eastenders! HabboxTV was also sometimes known in short at HxTV.

The HabboxTV department was closed on the 20th of June 2007. Click here for the official announcement from Habbox Management: http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=367956

Habbox History

2003 - 2005

As mentioned above Habbox was initially the pet project of Mizki, a former UK Hobba. Habbox was one of the original fansites ever created for Habbo and ever since it has gained it's official status as a fansite, then it has lost it and then regained it again. Habbox is one of those great institutions of Habbo which many could not live without. From the moment Habbox was opened, it has maintained popularity and has always been a first choice fansite for a lot of Habbo's.

Almost from the day it started, Habbox has been a massive hit with Habbo's. So it comes as no surprise that Mizki needed quite a lot of people to help run the site and keep the interest to ensure people came back time after time. One person who made the largest impact on Habbox at this early stage was none other than Sierk. He developed Habbox a lot from what was originally on offer and as he took a more active and managerial stance at Habbox, Mizki felt it was time to hand ownership from herself to Sierk. This pathed the way for many brand new features including rare values which has been the greatest legacy Habbox has ever made on Habbo.

Under the Hotel Management of the former Hotel Manager, Callie, Habbox became one of the first ever official fansites. Barely a year after opening it's doors to the great Habbo public! With this new found acclaim came great rewards for Habbox. In the Habbo Awards of 2004 with an astonishing 60% of the vote, Habbox was voted 'Best Fansite' which meant a lot to Habbox as it was voted for by the users. Not only that but Habbox was also awarded 'Most Helpful Male' which was awarded to the then HxHD Manager, DJ-3000 as well as 'Best Radio Station' of the year.

Just a short few months after receiving these three amazing awards, Habbox unfortunately lost it's official status as a fansite. Due to an incident on HabboxForum involving several members and Callie, the Hotel Manager she removed the official status of the fansite. She said that Habbox would never regain that status which you will find out to be untrue as you read on.

2006 - 2008

After Habbox lost it's official status as a fansite it didn't dampen anyones spirits. Habbox continued as the UK's favourite and most popular fansite despite not actually being an official fansite any more. Loyal users stuck with Habbox and Habbox also gained thousands more users.

Over the next two years Habbox really started to grow and pick up strength. There were now three officially affiliated sites of Habbox (HabboxLive - HabboxForum - HabboxWorld) all of which catered for many thousands of different people. From those who tuned into the radio and for those UK and International users whom enjoyed chatting about Habbo, Habbox, real life and everything in between.

On the 9th May 2008 Habbox once again officially became an official fansite. This came a long while after the former Hotel Manager, Callie had left office and the then UK Hotel Manager Lost_Witness had taken her place. After almost three years without the official status, Habbo launched an application process for fansites to become official, of course the wonderful Habbox and Habbo public voted for Habbox and we resumed our post as an official fansite. Not only did Habbox become official once more but a new title of a 'Gold Tier Fansite' was introduced to the two fansites which received the most votes as peoples favourite fansite. Habbox came first with ClubHabbo bringing up the rear in a close second place which put them both at the top of the league table as official gold tier fansites. From then, Habbox has kept it's official fansite status and doesn't show any signs of losing it any time soon.
In September 2008 just four months after being voted Habbo's number one fansite Habbox was nominated for and also won the following awards: 'Best Fansite News' 'Best Fansite Features' 'Best Fansite Forum' and the most prestigious award 'Best Overall Favourite Fansite'.

2009 - Current

In 2009 saw the eagerly anticipated Version.04 of Habbox. Although some didn't quite like it as much as Version.03 it was a welcomed change to an ever changing face of fansites which it would seem Habbox often forgot change in sync with. 2009 also saw many management changes, more than there had ever been at Habbox. One of the most important and prominent changes was that of the long time serving member of staff, Jin. He had been staff for many years and also an administrator on HabboxForum and he would deal with many of the sites issues and problems. In 2009 Jin became an Assistant General Manager after many years and then he later became Acting General Manager then a few weeks later stepped up and became Co-Owner along with long time Owner, Sierk. Jin liases with the General Management team on a day-to-day basis as Sierk is no longer able to fulfill this role however still still maintains ownership alongside Jin.

In 2010 after almost 5 years of the same system, Habbox got a totally new Rare Values system. The thing which had made Habbox so famous and useful to its users was starting to become a little out of date and difficult to maintain with such a high volume of new rares to add and value. With the introduction of the Marketplace in Habbo this helped Rare Values management keep the values up to date as fast as possible.

In the summer of 2010 came a massive change for Habbo which shook up fansites forever. Sulake decided that they needed to merge all English speaking hotels. This meant that the American, Australian, Canadian, English and Singaporean hotels into one. This meant that Habbox could now and would also have to cater for thousands of new users the merger bought with it. Up until this point Habbox had had little success with International affairs but the merge did wonders for Habbox and today still remains the most popular fansite for users.

2011 also bought many changes for Habbox. In March 2011 the eagrly anticipated Version.06 (Version.05 was missed somewhere in Version.04 updates). A massive team effort was made and it was successfully released and many feel it was the best layout Habbox had ever seen. It also incorporated many brand new features which no other fansite has ever seen including: moveable content boxes, widgets, interactive content and so much more. It is also planned that Habbox and HabboxLive will merge at some point during 2012 all part of Version.06 of Habbox.

In 2012 we saw the release of the HabboxWiki.

Links

Visit Habbox.com
Visit HabboxLive.com
Visit HabboxForum.com
Visit HabboxWiki.com

Visit HabboxLive Wiki Page
Visit HabboxForum Wiki Page
Visit HabboxWiki Wiki Page

Visit Habbox Twitter
Visit Habbox Facebook

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