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sorry, i should've worded my point better. lacking quality applications. that's not a dig at you (or yr friends that had applied either), we hire quality applicants so perhaps if you didn't get chosen it is down to a fault with you rather than hxl.Quote:
Originally Posted by KenBain
So, I have a few to add on too.
Habboxlive
Before I resigned from HXL, I did suggest to find a new Assistant HXL Manager. Lots of OBVIOUS reasons and I do think most HXL staff have noticed them. They just dont wanna admit them. silly enough. Has Sct DJed so far? Not that I know of. Even if he's online, did he reply to any of my messages when I wanted a cover for the next hour? Never. Maybe he was busy etc. but ffs, he didn't reply to me again and again. And when a cover was needed, none of the DJs even bother to book it or cover it until the Group 3 DJs have to stream for hours. And Jess. Back when I was a staff, yes. She rarely comes on Habbo. And if you did look at the timetable, nothing much improves. It's getting worse from day to day and the quality of the DJs urgh... I wouldn't even tune in. They sound so lackadaisical and bored. It's like they'll only think of DJing if there's nothing else to do. I've heard of the same thing for God knows how many times. 'We are lack of Group 3 DJs. We need more Group 2 DJs etc.' Seriously, why not consider having a few freelance DJs? Make a position like that and start hiring freelance DJs. The rules should not be as strict as normal DJs. Maybe make those freelance DJs dj for at least 10 hours/month or something like that. I know great.la has been doing that for years and I don't see a problem with it? Their DJs (freelance, normal, senior, head etc.) are still the same since I first DJed there at 2009. And their timetable was even better than HXL. At least it's not the same DJ who has been covering for hours and hours.
uhm other than that, i also agree with merging habboxlive.com with habbox.com. You can advertise for all departments when you have certain events.
Events
I understand habbox is UK based but ever since habbo merged, we also have americans, asians etc. So, there should be more group 3 event organisers to promote habbox to other countries. although the majority is from uk, others should not be neglected.
Forum
My 'Alt+S' is not working for idk how many months already. Is it just me or it happens to other ppl too? Informed a few staff about this but so far, nothing happened. And for the 'undefined' thing, [@]@HotelUser[/@] it was in spam section. Duel between me and buttons and undefined won. It was just above me-you duel?
p/s: hxhd is ok. good job wd. even though i like bolt660's room more than xxmattgxx's
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oh i missed this. is habboxlive getting lots of applications now? cause if there are many applications coming in, the probability of hiring quality applicants is high but if there are only a few applications, then you all should forget about hiring quality applicants. Just hire them and give them workshops etc. Practice makes perfect.
I agree with everything you posted besides this. Hiring presenters that aren't good is a bad thing. I don't mean to make the failed applicants look stupid but it isn't hard to create a clip of yourself speaking about regular habbo topics and sending it in an email with a good application, when they fail them steps they should review their applications for next time around. The radio has gotten into that slippery slope already, I'm not saying the presenters need to be experts but it would be good for presenters to know what they're going to chat about rather than flicking their microphone on and talking about the first thing that comes to their head. I'm sure habboxlive have some fantastic presenters but at the same time i have heard a lot of lets just say not so fantastic presenters that wouldn't of been given a chance a few years back. I personally think it's all about patience, brainstorming and of course advertising constantly, but what do i know.Quote:
Originally Posted by GirlNextDoor15
Oh and I thought now would be a good time to add this because i know something will creep up along the lines of "relax, it's only a habbo radio station jeeez" if it's only a habbo radio station all departments should be treated equally. I think it's hilarious how when you judge presenters on acting professional you get reminded that it is a habbo radio station but when a forum moderator doesn't act professional they automatically get the boot or a mouthful off a lot of angry people. And saying that, the last time i posted something like this the majority of the people reminding me it is only a habbo radio station were funnily enough staff members.
You use NiceCast because I assume you are a mac user? I'm not sure how many people who would like to become DJ's own a mac and don't want to mess with boot camp or virtual machines to be able to run Sam Broadcaster but would be interesting to know. If the program supports shoutcast and the majority of the features Sam do and can do smooth change overs than I don't see why it can't be supported. I'm not an expert in these programs and never used Nicecast so I can't comment fully on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by KenBain
In terms of Sam Broadcaster 4, I see a lot more threads about it being made in the staff section where users are asking for help. People are willing to use it and upgrade to it, just not straight away. Bit like when a new operating system comes out, not everyone upgrades all at the same time.
Alt+S is out of our control. Alt+S depends on your operating system and browser you use. I'm not sure if vBulletin took it out but it's not something we would manage.Quote:
Originally Posted by GirlNextDoor15
Richie:
In terms of what you said about giveaways: It would be nice to do something else to attract users and tune into the radio or visit a certain part of the site. But we shouldn't end them altogether, most of them are great success and the users do enjoy them when they are on. Maybe we could do them every so often but then do something in the middle to separate them.
I'm up for changes but only changes that would actually be good and benefit departments now and for the future. It's an interesting thread you have made Richie and I do hope the department managers of the departments you have mentioned read it fully and also reply to this thread.
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It would be nice to see Bethie in a management position at some point as I think she will do a great job at doing it. (No I'm not saying Jess or Scott fail)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kyle
What do you suggest departments should to do that is "fun"? Major events that combine the departments of some speak? I don't think we should start scrapping departments such as a news. It may not be read like it used to but there are still people out there who do read it. Even certain members of Habbo Staff read it when it mentions something that has got their attention. [@]@Bolt660[/@], [@]@Nuxty[/@]
I think this problem has came up before about them being too many Habbox staff members in events but you don't just mention staff, you mention users that you have seen in the Help Desk and the forum I'm guessing?
In terms of the Official Habbox Rooms: We still have them but I need to remind Mike that they need to be sorted out and managed again. I think it's time we allow people to send in their rooms and if they are popular and any good we can use them to advertise Habbox more. We do have a Trade room on there that seems to get popular on a daily basis owned by Varnius which has advertisement of Habbox inside the room via the wired. It's time for that page to be sorted and get rid of ones that aren't being used or no longer open and allow people to send their rooms in to become an official habbox room. [@]@Inseriousity.[/@]
Hi Richie,Quote:
Originally Posted by Richie
Strangely enough, there's already a little button on the sidebar for people to click. If you use the Site Skin 2011, you can click the little square room with the moving Habbos and it will produce a list of today's events. I don't use that skin so it would be nice if it was added to the others.. but yeah, it's there! :)
In terms of advertising on HabboxLive, I created a thread in the Events Organisers section a couple of weeks ago to try and find out how much the events are actually advertised. I fully supported removing the "Request a DJ" section because it was tedious and boring, and DJs have been asked to advertise the events if there's one on. Naturally, I have no idea if this is the case as I don't really tune in! :P If there's an event on whilst I'm on Habbo though, I do usually send a shutout to the current DJ that's online, just to remind them! :)
I have to agree with this, bethie does so much fr the dept shes totally showed herselfQuote:
Originally Posted by xxMATTGxx
I believe HxHD are already aware of the afk problem and are doing measures to sort it out.
I think there's a source of untapped potential in HabboxLive's userbase. Generally speaking, they're of the younger age bracket that we need to help boost the site up as they're the most likely to use all the new features.
Despite that, Habbox isn't just for new members. It's also for the members we've already got and so I see no problem with events being filled with people that are already here. If anything, events rely on them to get the room popular and it'd be foolish to say every single person in the event is aHabbox member. The key is to try and getthe non-Habbox members in the event to sign up and get active, which is easier said than done!
As for OfficialRooms List, when I got the agm position, I was thinking of ways to try and make the advertisementmore effective for both parties (room owner and Habbox) cos there isn't really any data as to how effective the whole scheme is. I'm not ashamed to admit that I've drawn a blankatm butit is definitely somethingthat is on my list of things to do. :)
Ah Richie, the good ol' feedback thread that props up about general departments one in a blue moon haha.
For radio:
Needs life, and a lot of it at that. The listeners seem to be in a downward slope of decline. I was shocked to see below 40 listeners at some points during primetime. I decided to compare it with other official stations and HabboxLive seemed most under performing in terms of that.
I had suggested a higher bitrate ages ago, all I got were silly comments by some members of the radio and crap like that. Seriously, if your computer cannot handle at least 96 kb/s, then I suggest you throw it out right now. No one anymore will be tuning in to hear anything below, and even 96 is pushing it to the low side.
Also, I never really got the idea of why HabboxLive was a boot camp for new DJs. There's no need for it to be. In the olden days HabboxLive was respected because it would hire only the best, now it's probably easier to get into HabboxLive than most other radio sites, which tells you a lot. I even believe the staffing team needs a bit of an overhaul in general.
For forum:
Maybe some big competitions or more promotions in events and stuff, as we're in need of more activity on here, as this lack of it doesn't seem to be one of those talked about trends that management quite often put forth.
For news
As for news, it can be read, it just needs new incentives for people to read it such as greater competitions, promotion, station jingles (which I actually thought we were promised way back since I was news management but never got :(!) Although that too could be freshened up a bit I admit :P, as I wouldn't really classify posting featured pieces on types of Habbo jobs, or Habbo mistakes that weren't stimulated by rolling 'spot' features as news. Featured pieces like that should be set off by some spot story. Heck I would even class stuff like that more relevant to the content department than news!
Also, maybe more thorough checks on articles, as I sometimes see names like "Mr X" without telling me where he's from or how this gentleman has any credibility or relevance to the article I'm reading. Sure, it may be small to some, but in the world of journalism, your article looses all its credibility that way. Moreover, use one style, don't variate between American and British English in an article and that also looks slightly off-putting. Might just be me though :P!
Anyway, here are my 5 cents, everything constructive and hopefully no one left out to be grumpy. Although there always are after these types of threads!
Any computer can support a higher bit rate, what you're talking about is the internet connection, which yes, most should be able to handle higher than 96kbps, but if you whack it up any higher you immediately shut out any possibility of mobile streaming or streaming for rural users on a slower broadband connection. Hell, the BBC maxes their "pop music" bitrate out at 128Kbps, so by all means increase it, but not by a huge amount at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grig
I believe the increase from 96Kbps to 128Kbps would definitely be noticable enough for it to be worth while, but as soon as you push 128Kbps, whilst yes the quality increases noticeably, the amount of bandwidth used also increases silly amounts.
At 128Kbps you're going to be using ~60Mb/h, at 320Kbps you're going to increase that to around 130Mb/h.
Whilst not based on SHOUTcast, someone like David by find this blog article by someone at the BBC an interesting read: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs..._for_rad.shtml
Hiya
With the SAM 4 stuff I wasn't aware that you could do all that, I'm not sure about the bitrate raising like I think we'd have to ask Jin on that one, I would like it to be higher I think thishabbo is and it sounds much better. I do know though that some DJs might not be able to stream higher but I reckon the majority would.
With HabboxLive merging with Habbox.com I agree and this has been the plan for at least the last year, before I was manager I was told that was basically what was going to change its just never been done but I know that David is going to do it for us shortly.
The radio does concern me at the moment and I know its my fault, I only ever intend to hire good DJs and I believe that the DJs that I have hired are talented just that some of them are incredibly lazy (soon to be gone) but some are extremely dedicated and I think by being on air so often they have just started putting less effort in as naturally you get bored. There seems to be a lack of motivation for the DJs and I think its important that people aspire to be a DJ at Habbox and if that means being tougher on staff and replacing people (me included) to keep it refreshed then thats a good thing. I think Bethie would make a really good manager, I was thinking about it the other day but thats not to say I don't enjoy it and am trying so hard to keep on top of everything it is just hard at the moment.
I would love a bigger range of events for HabboxLive than the standard giveaways and doing events is one of my favourite things to do. We have valentines in a couple of weeks which is a good place to start so hopefully we can get some new ideas. The only difficult thing with hosting events is funding, we have a limited budget and go through so much stuff that its just plain difficult. I am coming up with new ways to improve the funds though (which involve me using Habbo more). Using Habbo more tends to get pushed aside for me though as I get stuck doing other things such as reports, updating the sites, staff issues and sorting events. Its a pretty big job and sometimes it is hard to get the balance right.
Anyway basically I agree with what you have said about the radio and I really want hxl to improve and I know it can. I am going to work on some sort of plan for improvement and it will be followed through and not just a plan that never actually happens. So if anyone thinks there are other issues then I would be happy to hear them.