My opinion on Hxl Since 2006

I have been a listener of habboxlive, since around 2006, and my honest opinion is that Habbox has really became worse as time moves on. And the proof is in the pudding as your listeners have become really week, hitting around 100 at best, Back in 2006 - 2008 You where getting around 200 - 300 listeners on a average show , I think on one show you got around 800 listeners, Your lacking the quality's you had back then, and the standards. You try to appeal to so many people which makes you so week in so many ways. if you just focus on the main priority's then your strong points will once again shine through, Habbox is missing that homey feel that is used to have, now it just seems (very much like habbo) your in it for the money, ... habbox doesn't need a sponsor. in fact it was doing much better without it.
you also have dropped major standards in your Dj's, your Djs where among the best, H0BJ0B aka Danny if half of you rember him was amazing. now half of the kids trying to Dj have a scheduled bed time.

and from the complaint's i here from your staff in the help desk, your trust and respect for each-over is lacking dearly,

So please habbox take a look at your crumbling empire and get some cement before the underdogs push
you over .

sincerely callum

This has been posted many times in the past couple of weeks.

I do agree, . with the listeners, but we have been trying to fix this issue, We have been doing giveaways , to get internationals to join. But we can't guarantee that they will stay, its hard.
The lacking of Djing is actually improving, from the last time this was posted.
The DJ's having scheduled bedtime? ; I don't understand what you mean by that, but we can only accept the DJs who apply, and if you look on habbo, you don't see many people out of school and playing habbo, and wanting to DJ.

For the HxHD, ? I don't understand what you mean by that, from what I see from the staff, they trust each other? its a habbo room, how can you not trust each other?.

1) Standards - Have became worse
2) Listeners - Its not only due to the fansite itself, since the merge things have been looking down

Will the standards of djing get better in the future? Possibly, however for now I think the habboxlive is going to stay as it is, its not like they can fire the djs that 'don't meet their standards'.

Habbox does need a sponsor for financial support and who the hell cares if it says "sponsored by kazopark" at the top of the forum and if djs mention it once every hour or something =s people are ao damn picky. I rareky notice the sponsored by thing at the top. But yeah, Habbox is not the same as in 2006. Some managers love themselves too much and think that they are God. It's their attitude which pushes members away. Before there used to be throne comps and used to be heavily advertises, now .... none. I used to enter hxl comps in 2006 for awesome prizes, now its just stuff like mocha.

Hey,

I agree with you that HxL has lost some of its popularity, and perhaps some of the points such as quality, homey feeling are a big part of it. But there are a couple of points where I think you're a little off base.

First of all, I think part of the reason for all this change was Habbo itself. Habbo began pushing out Habbo Fansites, doing less events, and the big blow was removing VIP. Trust me, that was a MAJOR hit to revenue and we were lucky to be able to salvage donator, basically we got differing accounts from staff members, presented our case and they allowed us "aesthetic privileges". Then they backed an attempt to run out Habbo radios by this licensing agency which honestly was overasserting its reach, but that's a long story.

Now the merge and the real lack of fansite interaction is hurting Habbox again, but I'm confident the management team is working to bring Habbox back on track after the merge which must have brought about a huge number of changes.

As far as it being about the money, and not needing a sponsor, not to be rude but I can completely assure you that you're wrong on that one. You're obviously not trying to lie to us, but as I mentioned VIP earlier, the sponsorship was a huge boon to Habbox. Massive massive massive massive credit to the management team for doing what had to be done even as Habbo tried to put us on the ropes - and doing what no other fansite had been able to do to this point. Remember that Habbox was the one offered a sponsorship, which shows there's real quality to the site.


But that aside, I think you have very valid point on HabboxLive's listeners. I'd just suggest sticking to the point about how the quality and listeners could be improved in light of the changing Habbo circumstances.


EDIT: Damnit I'm doing it again. I'm not General Management, am not a representative of general management, am not a representative of Habbox official policy etc. etc. I apologize for speaking like one, old habits die hard.

Thank you for all your feedback and views so far :) and have come to terms with the need of sponsorship. and yes i do blame habbo and its capitalist ways forcing all the sub sites and fan sites to have to deal with there greed,

Oh and not like im great with American politics seeing as im brittish and only 16, but your not too keen on change for a barrack obama supporter ;D

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Originally Posted by Richie

1) Standards - Have became worse
2) Listeners - Its not only due to the fansite itself, since the merge things have been looking down

Will the standards of djing get better in the future? Possibly, however for now I think the habboxlive is going to stay as it is, its not like they can fire the djs that 'don't meet their standards'.

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But still there letting in all these week Djs who havent got the quality's need for a good official site like habbox, which they should not. a year ago DJ standerds where great due to they where all mature and experienced and above the age of 16

Oh nvrspk4, you're going to put me out of a job.

Lets start by saying that we do recognise that HabboxLive has been having it's problems and we do recognise things need to be done to improve. What you do have to understand that this is not something that can happen over night but it is something we can and are working towards.

This is where I must point out your first mistake, the sponsorship done nothing to "make HabboxLive worse", in fact since the sponsorship we have seen an increase in listeners. I can't say that can be directly attributed to the sponsorship but it most certainly negates your theory it is making HabboxLive worse.

This also suggests that we are improving, and I do think that is the case. We have seen a big increase in listeners and Management are adopting further methods of improving the department so we appeal to listeners a lot more. This includes an increase in events and competitions, appropriately distributing donations to members of staff so they can hold competitions and gain listeners and things like that.

Of course gaining listeners is not the be all and all, but I do think nvrspk4 hit the nail on the head above where he send that Habbo distancing itself from fansites has affected us - it's affected every fansite. Habbox.com itself has become less popular on the hotel itself and this itself negatively impacts on HxL. We have been working to change this and promote ourselves a lot more, we had a lot of giveaways and events and the two weeks of HxSS will serve the same purpose, which is great! Every fansite is struggling, listeners across all the popular radios - HxL, HFFM, CH etc have all dropped. We're not alone in this.

So gaining listeners is important but we also recognise the importance of increasing the quality of our shows. We regularly receive feedback which suggests that there are some DJs that aren't meeting the standard. In order to combat this we've got a relatively new, and I think effective, feedback system in place designed to feedback on the show in detail and hopefully ensure the DJs improve. Jess and Gemma work extremely hard to set these PMs up, they are very detailed and very effective.

Erm, sorry if this is incoherent or disjointed. I'm not well (still :@) and therefore am not thinking straight!

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Thank you for all your feedback and views so far :) and have come to terms with the need of sponsorship. and yes i do blame habbo and its capitalist ways forcing all the sub sites and fan sites to have to deal with there greed,

Oh and not like im great with American politics seeing as im brittish and only 16, but your not too keen on change for a barrack obama supporter ;D

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But still there letting in all these week Djs who havent got the quality's need for a good official site like habbox, which they should not. a year ago DJ standerds where great due to they where all mature and experienced and above the age of 16

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You've certainly got the concept right :P I'm open to change, but there's good change and bad change. IMO what Habbo did is bad change, forced its fansites out (though it might make good business sense, they have to worry about its effects on the community too as that's a less tangible but still important factor.) And I support change to HabboxLive as I'm sure the management team does, if it will make the radio better. Removing sponsorship definitely wouldn't do that :P

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Originally Posted by Nixt

Oh nvrspk4, you're going to put me out of a job.

Lets start by saying that we do recognise that HabboxLive has been having it's problems and we do recognise things need to be done to improve. What you do have to understand that this is not something that can happen over night but it is something we can and are working towards.

This is where I must point out your first mistake, the sponsorship done nothing to "make HabboxLive worse", in fact since the sponsorship we have seen an increase in listeners. I can't say that can be directly attributed to the sponsorship but it most certainly negates your theory it is making HabboxLive worse.

This also suggests that we are improving, and I do think that is the case. We have seen a big increase in listeners and Management are adopting further methods of improving the department so we appeal to listeners a lot more. This includes an increase in events and competitions, appropriately distributing donations to members of staff so they can hold competitions and gain listeners and things like that.

Of course gaining listeners is not the be all and all, but I do think nvrspk4 hit the nail on the head above where he send that Habbo distancing itself from fansites has affected us - it's affected every fansite. Habbox.com itself has become less popular on the hotel itself and this itself negatively impacts on HxL. We have been working to change this and promote ourselves a lot more, we had a lot of giveaways and events and the two weeks of HxSS will serve the same purpose, which is great! Every fansite is struggling, listeners across all the popular radios - HxL, HFFM, CH etc have all dropped. We're not alone in this.

So gaining listeners is important but we also recognise the importance of increasing the quality of our shows. We regularly receive feedback which suggests that there are some DJs that aren't meeting the standard. In order to combat this we've got a relatively new, and I think effective, feedback system in place designed to feedback on the show in detail and hopefully ensure the DJs improve. Jess and Gemma work extremely hard to set these PMs up, they are very detailed and very effective.

Erm, sorry if this is incoherent or disjointed. I'm not well (still :@) and therefore am not thinking straight!

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i dont think i did say it was making it worse at all, i was just saying that you was doing better without. i also noted that i have come to terms with the need of sponsorship for the site :) x

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Originally Posted by Glopy

i dont think i did say it was making it worse at all, i was just saying that you was doing better without. i also noted that i have come to terms with the need of sponsorship for the site :) x

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Yeah that's cool, what I was saying is that we weren't doing better without - things have actually improved (in terms of listener numbers) since. Whilst I don't think that is directly attributed to the sponsorship, it does prove that we weren't doing better without and we've actually improved since, not got worse.