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Content
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| Quality : |
15.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
10.5 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
12.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
7.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
3.5 / 05 |
| Download : |
2.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
50.5 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
7.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
2.5 / 05 |
| Design : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
12.5 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
4.0 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
7.5 / 10 |
Scoring Criteria
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1. Pictures can look decent.
2. Updates come pretty regularly.
1. Could use some growth.
2. Videos are streaming only.
3. Navigation is a bit awkward.
"An okay start to a site here, but there's just a few things I'd update overall to make it better." |
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I'm pretty surprised I haven't gotten a call to be on today's site yet since I think I'd be a good fit. Muscle Adonis is all about hot, young muscle studs (according to their homepage at last) with all sorts of hot dude action. They claim to have solo material, gay material, and straight material all at once. It'll cost you $25 a month to become a member, which is about where I expected to see them priced at.
The goods:
- Pictures can look okay. First off, a lot of them come in two quality options, so make sure to click the little "high" text link instead of the thumbnail to see the best version. If you can skip over the webcam pics peppered in there, you can get some decent-looking pictures here. I saw a few sets up to 1200x800, and the lighting and all can be fun too.
- Updates come pretty regularly. There's something new at least every week, and often a few times a week it looks like. There's no set schedule, but they seem to keep things going up often enough. The only downer is that they'll break videos into a bunch of updates that can span a week or two; so even though a lot of stuff is going up, it's not like there are eight new full videos or anything.
The bads:
- Could use some growth. It's not a tiny site, but it's not very large either unfortunately. They're currently under 75 for both the photo and video gallery counts, so there's definitely some room for growth here over time.
- Videos are streaming only. Most users today are used to downloadable videos, so it's always a surprise when a site is missing that basic option. There are various reasons for it, but in the end if keeping a video on your computer is important to you, you'll need to think Muscle Adonis over a bit first.
- Navigation is a bit awkward. They split their photo galleries up into a few different sections, but don't really explain any of it. Is the first section the oldest? Also, I had to click the "videos" link a few times until I saw a submenu had opened with links to two video sections and a plugin site. The worst of the navigation was when viewing the videos as it's almost impossible to click your back button and get back to the listing of videos. Something refreshes in there that makes you have to click back 2-3 times very quickly if you want it to work (of course there are a few ways around this, but it's a pain nonetheless).
Conclusion:
So overall, it's an okay site, but it has some room for improvement in my opinion. It's not too expensive and you can get some okay content, plus it's updating pretty regularly as well. On the other hand, nothing stands out as fantastic here from the content to the site itself. They definitely need some time to grow, and I wouldn't mind a bit more consistency in the content as well. Not bad and it might be worth a look, though it's not an all-time favorite or anything.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 10-23-07 |
Unfortunately there's not much new to report on here at Muscle Adonis. Things look pretty much the same as they did on our first visit, which I'd say is a little more bad than good. Updates still come at least, but the few cons I mentioned don't seem to have been touched at all. It's still not a huge site, and the streaming videos still hold them back as well. Without much to report, I'm afraid the score won't change a ton either for now.
Score decreased from 72.6 to 70.5.
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