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About
The main focus of the site are the opinions and rants.
If you'd like to submit anything to the site, then please do so using the email page (link is at the bottom
of every page). All comments are welcome, good or bad, as its your input that help to make HatredFun better.
Updates will occur on around a weekly basis.
Brief History
All my humorous rants were always posted on mobile chat forums, occasionally posts vanished because of sensitive issues (lack of humor on the part of
some readers).
Eventually, due to my posting rate, and the sudden thought process of 'I'm making some valid points but being censored', I kept
pushing, in alot of cases, without my postings, the forums were bland, and slow. Being a chat site, I thought that sucked, so often went on
posting frenzies which got the desired affect, that is the forums came alive and interactive.
After a while, even non-offensive material was being removed nearly as fast as I were making the posts. So with a little encouragement from Rollerball
and Dagnew, I decided to take my rantings away from the moderators, thus HatredFun was born.
In its peak, visit numbers were in the thousands every month, now I was on the mission to get my site viewed by more visitors, so I went looking
for popular sites to try and get a link swap partnership with, a couple of site webmasters were willing (after finding out these webmasters were
regular visitors to my site anyway), these site webmasters (cooldude, gameboy, onedj, monkey, and a couple of others) I'd like to thank for helping
spread the fanbase for HatredFun.
Towards the mid noughties (2005), mobile web users were rapidily vanishing due to a lot of networks now charging outragous rates for mobile web
browsing. Visitor numbers dropped into the hundreds, and the motivation to keep the site updated started to drop also. To try to increase numbers, I
started offering free downloads under the members area. This only helped the numbers stay steady for a short while, a lot of new visitors mainly
came for these free downloads, and ignoring much of the core elements of HatredFun.
A little later into the noughties, huge social web networks started to eat into the mobile market. With their financial marketing, the small mobile
web developers started losing the battle for visitor numbers, even now, mobile sites other than those giving away free illegal downloads, and major
social networks that have gone mobile, the small mobile web developer is fighting a seemingly difficult battle to win a userbase.
The turn of the decade in the noughties (2010), HatredFun has gone in the opposite direction of innovation, the mobile web is too hard a market to get
a site noticed now, so to compete in gaining new visitors, the web version has gone live. The mobile version will now only contain all the latest
rants, and updated only at the end of every month with the rants available on the web version.
Due to alot of mobile devices now able to view full websites (with or without the use of miniopera), this won't be much of a loss to current mobile
web visitors.
Timeline
01-2001 - First version of hatredfun (mobile) appears at http://hatredfun.mywap.o2.co.uk and kept updated til 02-2006.
28-10-2005 - Moved to a html host, hatredfun.wen.ru
08-04-2006 - Domain changed to http://hatredfun.com and moved server. Still updated regular and is the main site.
26-08-2007 - Dotmobi compliant as main mobile entry point.
01-01-2010 - Dedicated desktop version goes live, fully compliant to the standards of html 4.01 and css 2.1
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