Have your say on new forums & subforums!

Hey everyone,

One of the things the Forum team is focusing on is making HabboxForum a much EASIER, simple place to post. One way we're working on that is to consolidate all the forums massively! We've come up with a plan (thanks to the mods, Sam and Scott for having their say so far!) but I wanted the wider community to have their say before we put anything into action.

Please note we're not getting rid of ANY old posts, just merging them into their new homes! We're trying to keep things as simple and easy as possible.

Anyway here's the spreadsheet of the old and new ones:

CURRENT	PROPOSED	PROPOSED PREFIXES
Habbox	Habbox
- - Habbox Announcements	-- Habbox Announcements (job changes, big events, site updates)	[Dev]
- - Job Openings	-- Job openings
- - - - Job Openings Archive	- - - - Job Openings Archive
- - Development Announcements
- - Community Notice Board	-- Community Notice Board (everything from events, hxl, comps)
- - Competitions	- - Competitions
- - - - Competitions That Have Ended	- - - - Competitions That Have Ended
Help, Questions and Feedback
- - Welcome To Habbox Forum / Goodbye	- - Welcome To Habbox Forum / Goodbye
- - Congratulations and Thank Yous!	- - Congratulations and Thank Yous!
- - Support	- - Support and complaints (just a rename)	[Support] [Complaint]
- - - - Complaints about Habbox Staff
- - Habbox Feedback	- - Questions, ideas & feedback (merge questions forum into feedback)	[Question] [Idea] [Feedback]
- - - - Questions/Queries about Habbox	Buy & Sell VIP, Donator and Icons (rename)
- - Buy & Sell Habbox Donator/VIP
Habbo	Habbo
- - Habbo News & Rumours	- - Discussion	[News] [Rumour] [Discussion]
- - Cool Rooms
- - - - Elite Rooms
- - Habbo In General
- - - - Bobba - Scams - and Bugs Errors and Glitches
- - Trading	- - Trading	[Selling] [Buying] [Question]
- - Anything about Trading and Furni
	- - Show off your Habbo skills!	[Room] [Alteration]
Graphics
- - Habbo Alterations
- - - - Elite Alterations
- - - - - - Classic Elite Alterations
- - Other Graphics, including Pictures & Photography
- - Graphics Discussion, Help and Requests
Games and Entertainment	Games, Hobbies and Entertainment
- - Music	- - Music
- - Console and Computer Gaming	- - Gaming (combine ALL subforums)	[Console] [PC] [Online]
- - - - Call Of Duty
- - - - Sony
- - - - Microsoft
- - - - Nintendo
- - - - Minecraft
- - Online Games
- - - - World of Warcraft
- - - - RuneScape
- - - - - - Trading items
- - - - - - Goals & Achievements Forum
- - TV & Film	- - TV & Film
- - Forum Games
- - - - OLD Forum Games
- - Anime and other Entertainment
Technology + The Web	- - Technology (combine all technology + the web)
- - Technology Discussion
- - Designing & Development
- - - - Website Staff
- - - - Tutorials
- - - - Resources & Tutorials
- - Show Off Your Website Here - Including Habbo Fansites	- - - Show off your website!
- - Web Market
- - - - Web Hosts
	- - Graphics and art	[Photography] [Digital] [IRL]
	- - - Graphics help & requests
General	General
- - Discuss Anything	- - Chat about anything (rename from discuss anything)
- - - - Assorted/Misc
- - Sports	- - Sport
- - Education & Employment	- - Education & work (simple rename)
- - Health, Life and Relationships	- - Life, love and looks	[Health] [Life] [Relationships] [Fashion] [Hair]
- - Fashion, Hair & Clothes
- - Tourism, Holidays, Vehicles & Transport	- - Travel & tourism (simple rename)
- - Debates	- - Debates
- - - - Members debates	- - - - Debates that have ended
- - - - Debates that have ended
- - Current Affairs	- - News (rename from current affairs)
- - Spam	- - Spam (post count turned on, no tokens)
Habbox V.I.P Forums
- - VIP Features & Requests
- - - - Request Your VIP Features

Not really a fan of the idea of merging development announcements into habbox announcements, they're rather different in what they do and a habbox announcement could bury an important dev announcement as it is relatively more active.

I was going to say it seems a shame elite rooms seems to be going but then I just looked at it and it never seemed to be active so no real loss I guess though it looks like elite alts are also going, which does seem a shame. Even if it's no longer updated I feel it should stay as an archive. Which actually brings me onto something I might have suggested before which is just an archive subforum for old "iconic" threads which are lost to time, probably also locking them off from comments.

On the graphics proposal, I'm not happy alts are under "habbo skills" ;/! But I can understand the desire to split it up.

I feel like travel & tourism should be travel & transport instead if it is just meant to be a rename

ye aside from that not much to say

Are dev announcements even used though? If it was needed then it can be force read.

Forums can be filtered to show the elite rooms, we shouldn't keep a forum just to show archived stuff imo, search the prefix.

Is there any reason job changes can't go into CNB? That way habbox announcements would have some meaning

Leave Habbox Feedback as Habbox Feedback (feedback implies ideas doesn't it)

Get rid of graphics help and requests and use prefixes too, no need for it.

Merge Spam with chat about anything imo, it's implied.

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also move VIP features into feedback?

Is this the same as what you showed me if so then yeah do it

Sounds good, especially important to tidy up the descriptions under each forum name too. There's some with 3 lines of text underneath which looks ridiculous and is just not needed. Simplicity please! Also, the more new names we can have for each forum the better - fresh and simple.

Glad this is being done. :)

I also agree with reverting back to simply Habbox Announcements like we used to have for all developments/news/job openings.

Looks good

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Originally Posted by dbgtz

Not really a fan of the idea of merging development announcements into habbox announcements, they're rather different in what they do and a habbox announcement could bury an important dev announcement as it is relatively more active.

I was going to say it seems a shame elite rooms seems to be going but then I just looked at it and it never seemed to be active so no real loss I guess though it looks like elite alts are also going, which does seem a shame. Even if it's no longer updated I feel it should stay as an archive. Which actually brings me onto something I might have suggested before which is just an archive subforum for old "iconic" threads which are lost to time, probably also locking them off from comments.

On the graphics proposal, I'm not happy alts are under "habbo skills" ;/! But I can understand the desire to split it up.

I feel like travel & tourism should be travel & transport instead if it is just meant to be a rename

ye aside from that not much to say

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I like the idea of an iconic subforum :)

I was really torn about the alts thing, we talked about combining graphics and photography in one place but I'm not sure skills is the right title so if you have another suggestion!

Travel and transport is also definitely a better name.

Thank you!

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Originally Posted by scottish

Are dev announcements even used though? If it was needed then it can be force read.

Forums can be filtered to show the elite rooms, we shouldn't keep a forum just to show archived stuff imo, search the prefix.

Is there any reason job changes can't go into CNB? That way habbox announcements would have some meaning

Leave Habbox Feedback as Habbox Feedback (feedback implies ideas doesn't it)

Get rid of graphics help and requests and use prefixes too, no need for it.

Merge Spam with chat about anything imo, it's implied.

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also move VIP features into feedback?

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Dev announcements are important just to be transparent about site updates but I definitely think they could be just prefxied within announcements together.

CNB is definitely meant to be for events, and is open to the public (announcements is just for logged in) - this is not necessarily the best format though I agree...

I've had feedback on the feedback forum that people don't really know where they can post ideas which is why the rename and prefixes! It's just making it easier for everyone (based on feedback!!)

For help and requests the reason it's specific forum is to be able to easily link people (we often get people where can I get an avatar) and explaining oh go to here click new thread then click that drop down and click prefix - just for ease!!

It's not hard to tell them how to use a prefix though, they're going to have to use them for other forums so don't keep the subforum purely for that purpose

I still think habbox feedback implies ideas, fact you just mentioned feedback about 18 times in that post shows that ;l

Relooking over this, slightly confused will books (under anime and other entertainment) still be the same or is it merging with another forum?

Awh, it doesn't say here that anime was going. I got perm banned arguing for its implementation back in the day when management was corrupt. RIP. Not sure about the mix of upper and lower case in the titles, though.