Future Navigation Changes

[xxMATTGxx]

Not sure If this has been posted yet but just seen it over on Habbo's blog.




On Wednesday, in Habbo Finland, a new feature pilot was launched. It’s an add-on to the existing Navigator, and its main raisen d’être is simply to promote rooms that are popular within the Hotel and to help you find good rooms to visit.


The feature is based on super complex algorithms, which include criteria such as event types and room conditions. During the pilot, five categories were used; chat, party, games, pets and collectors – however, the possibility to add more is obviously there. In each category you’ll find ten rooms plus an image of the room owner appearing next to each listing.

This will eventually be released in all Hotels worldwide, however, there is no word yet on when this will happen. The algorithms are still being tweaked and the feature experimented on. Below you’ll see a couple of screenshots from the Finnish Hotel.

http://habboblogging.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/popular-rooms.gif?w=604&h=442



What do people think about this?

[AlexJRiley]

Looks a bit scruffy to me, I like how it is now. Habbo are too busy updating things that are currently fine when they need to sort out the seriously bad lag on the server and stop disconnecting us all the time.

[Jordan]

Would of been better if they posted a better quality picture for a start. I suppose it's alright, it's a sort of nice layout but I'm not sure if we need the room owners image? It just fills up the navigator so much more and makes it less attractive. Mixed feelings hmmhmh

[:odey:]

It's alright I guess,

Needs a bit of a revamp, so :)

We'll have to wait and see :)

[Samantha]

What the he'll I don't want massive thing on my navigation.I'm only just used to the one we have now

[Kasabian]

That looks ******* atrocious.

RIP Habbo.

[geo]

Looks really crap if I'm honest. Tacky and rushed, hope we don't get it. :(

[Jurv]

it looks pretty good imo. i love the idea of having a picture of the room owner at the side, i hope they release this soon!

[Andii]

looks a mess lol wtf is that

[Sloths]

Ew I like how it is now, it's way better just with the small bubble with the room name :/

[Charlie]

I agree that they need to stop changing the things that don't need changing and work on those that do. The navigation is fine, well it's not fine but I can deal with it, as is it now and there isn't any need to go and change it to this tacky new thing they've come up with. I mean, why is the room owner so important that we need to see a picture of them? All I care about is what the room is about, not what the person who created it looks like.

[Pigperson]

It's OK, it does take up a lot of space though and Top 50? Also I thought .com was the pilot :l

Will

[SackRace]

a whole load of **** that looks like, rip habbo if u do tht x

[Cerys]

It's a mess.

It's horrid.

I will murder habbo if they change the nav. :O
Seriously it's like the new loading screen thingy, unorganised.

[beth]

not really a fan to be honest, looks like too much pointless clutter.

[jasey]

They are clearly designing this sort of thing to switch demographic friendliness to the younger users who pop on to the site and don't know where to click or which rooms would interest them. It seems bad to most of us on this forum because the great majority of us have been on Habbo for some time and this makes no sense to us. For new young users, I am sure it would be helpful. I don't like it at all, though.

[Succubus]

Er, what am I actually meant to be looking at?

This looks flippin' ugly...

[Jordan]

It's OK, it does take up a lot of space though and Top 50? Also I thought .com was the pilot :l

Will
I swear it got changed to a smaller hotel because on maintenance of .com. Not sure though that is what I remember reading somewhere.

[Samantha.]

I don't really like it. It looks really tacky and rubbish, don't like it at all!

[xxMATTGxx]

It's OK, it does take up a lot of space though and Top 50? Also I thought .com was the pilot :l

Will


I swear it got changed to a smaller hotel because on maintenance of .com. Not sure though that is what I remember reading somewhere.

They changed it a while back now, it was explained somewhere but it was so they could do testing on a smaller hotel and minimise the impact of any problems these new features and so on of the bigger hotels.

[Aaron]

Saw this the other day, don't really like it.

[Plucked]

I quite like this idea ngl ;p

[Ellz]

its okay, prefer how it is now tbh

[NeverSkem]

It looks legit!

[Mathew]

Couldn't care less what someone's Habbo looks like. It would only make the popular Habbos more popular..

[Jazz]

looks horrid, i prefer the current navi

[Chris]

I dont like the design, its gonna make it look messy.

[Suspective]

Its unbelievably ugly. Why can't Habbo just leave anything alone. :P

[wiktoria]

i don't like it, it looks really confusing :S