OFFICIAL
78.0
pretty good |
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Content
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| Quality : |
16.5 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
13.5 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
12.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
8.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
4.5 / 05 |
| Download : |
2.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
57.5 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
7.5 / 10 |
| Features : |
2.5 / 05 |
| Design : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
13.0 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
4.0 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
7.5 / 10 |
Scoring Criteria New
New Update!
As of Aug 15th, 07, price of a site is no longer factored into the overall score/rank. |
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1. Mostly exclusive content.
2. Decent price.
3. Lots to see these days.
1. Navigation could be improved still.
2. Design needs work too.
"Slowly but surely, Bongum is turning into a decent place to find some fetish content." |
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What the hell's a bongum exactly? To me, it sounds like a cave man talking about his cave chick's boobs. "Me like-um your bongums, going to eat your nipples now." Apparently though, after looking around their tour for a bit, it's a bondage site from Europe. They have an English version to check out, which helped this American boy to understand what was going on. I like the pictures on the tour, they seem bright and colorful, which is always cool on these type of sites.
Damn, after logging in to the member's area for just a minute or two, the whole server went down for about an hour. Bad timing on their part. I'll consider it a glitch for now, and won't hold it against them, but I'll check back in a few times over the next day or two to make sure this isn't normal. The only other server problem I noticed was that it's sometimes a little slow responding, most likely because it's probably hosted in the Netherlands.
Once inside, the layout was a little cheesier than the tour was, with grey, orange, and blue being the dominant colors (weird choices). It is, however, easy to get around since there's not a lot of superfluous menu options. The first stop for me was the images section.
From there, they're divided up into four categories: Fetish Galleries, Dominas, Glamour Girls, and Bongum Girls. It's not totally clear what the differences are in some of them, but I guess that doesn't totally matter. The only section that claims any exclusive content is the Fetish Galleries one, although they don't specify which sets those are. I'll assume for the most part we're looking at non-exclusive stuff here. The actual pictures they have are a wide mix of different types of content. While there's some bondage, leather, and latex type stuff, it seems there's just as much normal boring content too. Picture quality is just average, with pic size usually hovering right around 768x510 or so. This is a bit small of course. There's no zips available, and the slow server connection plagued me a bit here with all the thumbnails loading. The biggest problem though was just a lack of focus on what kind of content they wanted to provide exactly.
The lack of a central theme spills over into the videos section as well, with their latest two updates being Torture Dungeon (right up the alley of what I thought would be here) and Lesbian Threesome (which seems a little vanilla for the site's supposed bondage theme). Thankfully the majority of the videos do have something to do with the site though, more so than I first thought. All of the new videos are in Windows Media format, and can be downloaded, or played in your browser. Definitely hit the link on the right so you can double-size it if you want to. The quality is good, around 350kbps, but it mostly depended on how good the original footage was (what video camera they used, etc.). The older videos come in just about any other format (Real Video, MPG, and Windows Media). The older formats looked just ok, and sounded real bad. About the only thing I would recommend against is the Real Video versions, as the quality is just way below the others.
You have the usual extras - stories, screensavers, and games - in case you wanna keep busy doing something else. About the only really good thing here is the price, which is $18 recurring at $15 a month. Otherwise, it was a slightly boring site for me. I'd love to see much better quality all around, more content in their bondage theme (and even maybe a sub-niche of two if possible), and easier/better navigation. Until then, I'll have to say pass on this one.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 12-27-04 |
Well, things have actually changed quite a bit here which is a good thing. Some reorganization occured. It's now a bit easier to find the things you're looking for, and helps keep things more consistent across the board. They still have a lot of sections to browse through, and I wouldn't mind seeing a master list of all the galleries available by date. Getting around the site still isn't 100% intuitive either.
Videos look a bit better as well, although getting into the site is free, they require a separate username and password which sucks. The updates here should be clickable, but they're not, adding to my navigation frustration. Thankfully the actual videos are a bit easier to get through, though.
Overall, an improvement for sure. It's still a weird little site, but at least it's better than last time which is what I like to see, and it has grown a lot which is good as well. It's worth a look for the fetish lovers out there.
Score increased from 69.4 to 71.1.
| 2nd Follow-Up Review |
Review: 01-30-06 |
Well, while things look similar here, they also look better overall from what I can tell. Updates are still coming and the site is growing, and each set now has a date so it's easier to tell what's new and whatnot. Besides the annoying entrance popup to some toplist, I think it's all good news here. Their exclusive content is now broken off into its own section so you can find it easier which is great. The navigation is still a bit bothersome and could use an update, but I'm glad to see a few new things here each time to keep the site from getting stale.
Score increased from 71.1 to 74.0.
| 3rd Follow-Up Review |
Review: 10-08-07 |
Bongum has progressed nicely, especially if you consider where they were at for our initial review. The site has continued to grow, and they decided to move their 250 videos to a separate site for some reason (which you still get access to with your membership). Quality is a little more consistent all around, and is better than it was before (though I'm never opposed to going even higher). The big drawback is still the navigation, which would be my biggest complaint about the site. Overall though, I like all the improvements that have been coming, and hope we continue to see more.
Score increased from 74.0 to 78.0.
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