who the hell uses the index anyway, i havent used it in years. new posts/typing the name into address bar ftw
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who the hell uses the index anyway, i havent used it in years. new posts/typing the name into address bar ftw
You could also make a sneaky redirect forum or a forum that mimics the Complaints forum as a way to sovle it. Subscribing would be useful too, it's not like there are hundreds a day so that could work :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr-Trainor
I thought people weren't keen on shortening the index even more? Some of those are a bit too much in my opinion, for instance Competitions as a subforum is more than likely to decrease competitions entries.
The Questions Forum is also important, sometimes people want a response from Staff, it doesn't matter if ten forum members could answer it, we've seen in the past that if several members answer the question it can get confusing for the member asking the question, with one member of staff replying with the definitive answer the member we can be sure the member is getting a decent response within quick time of posting their query (yes I know it'd be quicker if anyone could answer but questions in those forums aren't left forever).
Removal of the actual buying/selling trading forums would also be a problem (if that's what you are suggesting), as the trading forums have always been a new member magnet because it's easy to sell your items to a wide audience here, yes activity has decreased since the market place but they still get used. So for now, the trading forums shall stay.
Not a fan of the anime and other entertainment forum going elsewhere, as it's fine where it is really and shows off our vast range of topic areas on our index.
In reference to complaints being on the index, this was a move to channel more complaints via that forum rather than PM. Naturally if a complaint is sent via PM unless there are cc's included it's hard to keep track of, say if I was PM'd a complaint and replied, forgetting to CC Matt he wouldn't know what I'm up to - fair enough this is my fault but that can't even happen in the Complaints Forum - this seems to have worked, as far as I'm aware there have been more complaints via the complaints forum than PM over the last few months.
One I am in two minds with is the Development Announcements forum, this has it's uses being on the index as generally the updates can be very important, such as rule changes - and we'd like most members to read these, if there's one thread visible on the index for a considerable amount of time it is more likely that it'll get read.
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Originally Posted by Saurav
I don't think Anime and Other Entertainment needs to have an 'and books' in it cos that's pretty much 'other entainment' anyway and people do seem to go there to post about books so I think that's fine but I agree with everything else you saidQuote:
Originally Posted by Milestone
Was just an idea :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Inseriousity.
Apart from books and anime what actually gets posted in there?
I don't go in that section as anime bores me, and most stuff is covered by other forums.
I use the index and I use it on all forums I go on, I've never used the new posts feature. So I can't be the only one?Quote:
Originally Posted by NaughtyNemo
You're not.Quote:
Originally Posted by xxMATTGxx
I always use the index - the new posts bit gets cluttered with a lot of stuff I am not interested in, and since it's 'new posts' you don't get things from over night.
You wanna try having access to every forum - that makes new posts cluttered, I tell ya :P The index is a very important part of HabboxForum, I always used to use new posts but now I have to use the index as it would be impossible to browse properly only using new posts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Milestone
When it was shorter (i.e. i didnt have 30 staff forums) I used new posts though so I do see the arguments, but as Matt said he's used index through all his time and im sure there are other people who have too.
It's been shortened a lot I just wonder if it needs much more.
Feedback in bold and italics. I don't think the index needs to be drastically shrunk any further, not without damaging discussions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Saurav