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I can honestly second that and agree. Projects like RevCMS, uberCMS, PlusEMU, uberEMU, and a few others that actually had an impact in the Habbo Retro community were all either open-source projects or free projects that were released and given to the community which actually kept the retro community going and well-alive. I never understood why all these new "developers" are only interested in developing something to make revenue and money from it, not to mention you don't even receive the source code of the plug-ins you paid for. Question is do you really even own what you just paid for? Are you the considered the "respective owner" for a plug-in you brainstormed and came up with? Doesn't make sense. This is just one of many things that caused the community to go downhill and most retro owners have no choice but to use the tutorials that are available , the plug-ins that were leaked, and they are still limited to creativity due to the fact that. Now I know what most people will say... "If you don't want to pay, then learn/teach yourself" but not everyone has the knowledge of development nor do they have the time dedicate time like an actual developer would behind developing.BUT TO ANSWER THE ORIGINAL QUESTIONHabba.io is the perfect example of what a successful hotel looks like. A custom (new look) CMS/website theme that has never been seen before (its not the default Atom theme everyone uses), [USER=57590]@Rain[/USER] also made massive changes and edits onto the Arcturus Morningstar Emulator build he is using, many UI edits and changes, and he also made his own plugins that nobody has or uses. Not too mention his community of users all are dedicated towards Habba and its not the typical group of friends that just migrated over to the newest hotel that opened. It's drama free, no toxicity, and everyone participates. Long story short, it's far from "AFK Land" like the hotels that have over 30+ but everyone is idle and not even paying attention to the client.
I can honestly second that and agree. Projects like RevCMS, uberCMS, PlusEMU, uberEMU, and a few others that actually had an impact in the Habbo Retro community were all either open-source projects or free projects that were released and given to the community which actually kept the retro community going and well-alive. I never understood why all these new "developers" are only interested in developing something to make revenue and money from it, not to mention you don't even receive the source code of the plug-ins you paid for. Question is do you really even own what you just paid for? Are you the considered the "respective owner" for a plug-in you brainstormed and came up with? Doesn't make sense. This is just one of many things that caused the community to go downhill and most retro owners have no choice but to use the tutorials that are available , the plug-ins that were leaked, and they are still limited to creativity due to the fact that. Now I know what most people will say... "If you don't want to pay, then learn/teach yourself" but not everyone has the knowledge of development nor do they have the time dedicate time like an actual developer would behind developing.
BUT TO ANSWER THE ORIGINAL QUESTION
Habba.io is the perfect example of what a successful hotel looks like. A custom (new look) CMS/website theme that has never been seen before (its not the default Atom theme everyone uses), [USER=57590]@Rain[/USER] also made massive changes and edits onto the Arcturus Morningstar Emulator build he is using, many UI edits and changes, and he also made his own plugins that nobody has or uses. Not too mention his community of users all are dedicated towards Habba and its not the typical group of friends that just migrated over to the newest hotel that opened. It's drama free, no toxicity, and everyone participates. Long story short, it's far from "AFK Land" like the hotels that have over 30+ but everyone is idle and not even paying attention to the client.