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Content
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| Quality : |
17.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
13.5 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
13.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
7.5 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
4.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
61.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
8.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
3.0 / 05 |
| Design : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
14.0 / 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. Good content.
2. Cute girl.
3. Network access included.
1. More interaction would be great.
2. Could use a redesign.
"The amateur princess is still around, and better than ever!" |
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Most of you have probably heard of Tawnee Stone at this point. She was one of the early individual girl sites that got promoted by a big affiliate program, and her site blew up a year and a half back or so. You couldn't go anywhere on the net without finding Tawnee Stone pretty much at all the big adult sites somewhere. It's calmed down a bit nowadays, but I was glad to see her member's area was still going strong with weekly updates and all. In fact, and I'm not sure of this since I haven't checked out her site before, but I would bet the site may even be a little better now since she's not so wildly popular with the webmasters like she used to be since they have to work just a little harder to keep the members around. Espcially with that $35 a month price tag, there better be some kickass stuff waiting inside.
Anyhow, into her member's area you'll notice as I said before that she updates weekly with a new photoset. Most of her content appears to just be her by herself, although on a rare occasion they'll send in a toy, dude, or another girl much to our delight. Her galleries are laid out in typical amateur fashion, with a thumbnail preview, the title, and # of pics enticing you to click more.
The actual pictures are also very amateur-like. Although stuff like lighting could be worked on a bit, they're definitely good enough to get the point across. Most pictures come in around 700x525, although a few make it all the way up to 800x550 or so, woohoo :) As usual, I wish there were bigger pictures available, especially on the newer stuff. Also the lack of zip files isn't any fun, you'll have to save each pic individually to keep for yourself if you want to. There's a decent amount of galleries in here, about 80 or so right now of her "exclusive" stuff. If you poke around a bit, you can find a random extra gallery here or there that probably bumps that number a little higher.
Her video section is all over the place. There's just over 30 videos in there right now. Most of the early ones are in Real Video format, and they don't stream so you gotta download the whole damn thing first. Later on they added the option of a Windows Media format as well. The Real videos are usually 320x240 at 250kbps and they just look ok. The Windows Media option, which is on nine videos right now, is better since it starts playing right away, but even these videos are all over the place quality-wise. Most seem to be 320x240 and range from 350-650kbps, although one video I looked at was a whopping 640x480 at like 1500kbps. I'm not sure where that came from. Even though the numbers look good, the picture quality in the video isn't the best. I think they sacrificed that for video smoothness, which always seems to be good. They are definitely watchable, but it's not up to par of some other amateur's videos unfortunately.
Her extras will keep you poking around the site for a bit. Her journal is updated pretty often, about five days a week or so. Plus you now get access to one other site in the Lightspeed network as long as you've been a member at least a week (and you can change which site that is weekly I believe). They have a few feeds and stuff to keep you busy as well. Unfortunately the $35 monthly price makes it a bit tough to stay around very long. At that price, Tawnee needs at least 3-4 times more updates per week, and more videos to keep me around. I can't imagine any site's 200 extra pics a month being worth all that money. The only thing that'd keep me around is if there were other sites on the network I wanted to see for sure. Hopefully they keep that program going for long-term members, as it's a good idea. Overall, it's not a bad site, but the price just doesn't match with what you get.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 08-31-04 |
Dude, I think the Lightspeed crew must have read my last review and decided to make some changes! You can all thank me later ;-) Actually, if any of you can get Tawnee over here for some threesome action with me and the Mrs., that'll be thank-you enough.
Anyhow, the biggest change is the price. We're down to $20 a month now for one girl's site, although they have a big list of options incase you want to see more than one girl's site (which could definitely be worth it). Also, besides obviously growing from the weekly updates, she's bumped up her schedule to add something new every other day. Her diary is still updated regularly, and her chat board section is the biggest they have. They've also managed to add zip downloads for photos, as well as make the photos more consistent at 800x600.
Things look much better all around, and the score should reflect that. I'm glad to see her still around and involved, as a lot of model's would be long gone at this point. Keep up the good work everyone!
Score increased from 81.8 to 82.8.
| 2nd Follow-Up Review |
Review: 02-19-06 |
Well, there's a bit of bad news, and a lot of "business as usual" around here it seems. The price has jumped again up to $30 a month, which is just a lot of money for a solo-girl site. Thankfully Tawnee's site is one of their biggest, so the sting isn't quite as bad. Otherwise, she's been updating and hanging out on the message board keeping things pretty similar as they were before. Video options have been added to a bit, but otherwise there's not much different around here. I think it's worth a look if you've never seen Ms. Tawnee Stone's site before, and in the end this is definitely one of those personal choices where people will either love it or not-so-love it by my guess. A lot depends on individual preferences for the girl herself - at least she's hot in my eyes.
My score will drop a bit, but not because the site is worse, there's just stiffer competition out there these days. The price increase didn't help anything either!
Score decreased from 82.8 to 80.5.
| 3rd Follow-Up Review |
Review: 06-03-07 |
Tawnee Stone's site looks much the same as last time to me. It's continued to grow at least, and is offering a pretty decent collection these days. There are a few behind-the-scenes changes to note at least. First, the $30 membership fee gets you full network access as well which is definitely a nice touch. Videos are also offered in more formats than last time I think. Otherwise, the drawbacks are still a lackluster site design and navigation (plus all those external links cluttering things up), and not as much interaction as I'd hope for. Otherwise, she still has that something special that draws you in, and as the collection grows, it only gets more fun.
Score increased from 80.5 to 83.5.
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