Why Habbox isn't as good any more (imo...)

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Originally Posted by immense

LMFAO RYAN AT YOU STILL HAVING FOM IN UR SIG, DO YOU EVEN REMEMBER WHAT WE SAID THAT MEANS

p.s. loving ur almost at 20k posts habbox god :O:O!! x

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F.O.M. :D

I've noticed other sites tend to merge the forum and the site together, as well as other sites/profiles Habbox are involved with. Like Twitter feeds from Habbox coming up on Habbox. The home pages on other sites are alot nice too, they're not crammed with every known article of information but do not make it hard to find either. The news on habbox is just clutter to me, what if news is of zero interest seeing as Habbo already have such information? :P Reduce the news to just the article name, and let the users do the rest. It's definitely in need of a complete overhaul.

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Originally Posted by immense

i have never genuinely said i am quitting (in public ;l) so ****

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Is the v6 going to be done by October?
Btw Jake, love the HF skin. If only hxf was that good.

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Originally Posted by GommeInc

F.O.M. :D

I've noticed other sites tend to merge the forum and the site together, as well as other sites/profiles Habbox are involved with. Like Twitter feeds from Habbox coming up on Habbox. The home pages on other sites are alot nice too, they're not crammed with every known article of information but do not make it hard to find either. The news on habbox is just clutter to me, what if news is of zero interest seeing as Habbo already have such information? :P Reduce the news to just the article name, and let the users do the rest. It's definitely in need of a complete overhaul.

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lmao hahaha love that sig so much, classic! and yeah, if you look at hffm or ch (examples) they are sooo much nicer than habbox but the general management team have said they know and waiting for version 6 (wat even is version 6 :S) to come out and they will get onto it asap. they're discussing ideas atm so all good. they need me i think to write fun news with pyroka but i cnt be hired so their loss :S X

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Originally Posted by Saurav

Is the v6 going to be done by October?
Btw Jake, love the HF skin. If only hxf was that good.

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thnx! when the forum got deleted the other day (LMFAO LONG STORY) we had to go to a back up and that skin came back and we were all like woop we like this

Agree with pretty much everything here really. It does often seem that the content depatments get far less chance to achieve what they want in terms of site content. The site is now very outdated and could certainly do with a good few changes to keep things new and interesting.

To keep new members interested, and just to please the many, many visitors the site gets, I think we should be aiming to improve all aspects of the site. The whole Habbox name is tainted when we put on a poor show, and I think generally people are expecting far more from Habbos biggest and oldest fansite.

V6 does sound exciting, and I know there are going to be changes there which will make the whole site a lot easier to use and cater for everyone. This does need to not drag on too long though in my view, since already the site itself seems to be getting less attention and certain aspects are slipping.

I've been waiting for a youtube plugin or something similar for a while now, and I understand Jin is busy, but it seems he's the only one able to sort it. Other little issues do need sorting, and more organisation in general needed to ensure the site is given major priority. I think lots of people view the site each day, whether it's for rare values, hxl, news or content- but I think more can be done to get even more. Rare values may be a bit less used than perhaps a year ago, but there are plenty of other ways in which fansites can draw in the members and we need to work on strategies to achieve this.


I do however think Joe and everyone is doing a good job with what they've got. It's hard waiting for a new version to be planned and acted upon, and It's probably a very busy time for them during the planning process. I would advise not to let the core elements of the site slip though, and even whilst waiting for a new version, changes can still be made. Maybe even small things to freshen things up, or a temporary new layout or something. I can see why HxF has been getting a lot of attention lately though, as a boost on the forum was perhaps needed, and the forum is still a really important part of Habbox. I just feel once the site is at it's best- this will help the forum out too as the overall picture will be far greater.

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Originally Posted by Bolt660

I've been waiting for a youtube plugin or something similar for a while now, and I understand Jin is busy, but it seems he's the only one able to sort it. Other little issues do need sorting, and more organisation in general needed to ensure the site is given major priority. I think lots of people view the site each day, whether it's for rare values, hxl, news or content- but I think more can be done to get even more. Rare values may be a bit less used than perhaps a year ago, but there are plenty of other ways in which fansites can draw in the members and we need to work on strategies to achieve this..

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this is what i mean by a gm who can code. idk if this is even coding (lol) but 8f8 or mad wudda done that in minutes and it's small things like this that aren't done any more.

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Originally Posted by GommeInc

F.O.M. :D

I've noticed other sites tend to merge the forum and the site together, as well as other sites/profiles Habbox are involved with. Like Twitter feeds from Habbox coming up on Habbox. The home pages on other sites are alot nice too, they're not crammed with every known article of information but do not make it hard to find either. The news on habbox is just clutter to me, what if news is of zero interest seeing as Habbo already have such information? :P Reduce the news to just the article name, and let the users do the rest. It's definitely in need of a complete overhaul.

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I believe what we want to do is so that the user has a choice on what content shows on the front page. Whether you want news and what not. If that makes sense?

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Originally Posted by Saurav

Is the v6 going to be done by October?
Btw Jake, love the HF skin. If only hxf was that good.

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I can't confirm any dates for V6 at this moment in time.

habbopedia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

might be copyright issues, i know wiki have moaned before but like users submit articles about habbo from hotel managers to rares and obviously content staff will have to verify it but tht wud be well gooood. me and garion can start it with our habbox stories seeing as we're gr8 at writing

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Originally Posted by immense

this is what i mean by a gm who can code. idk if this is even coding (lol) but 8f8 or mad wudda done that in minutes and it's small things like this that aren't done any more.

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It's not coding. But I think we had an issue on finding the correct plugin or whatever it was Martin was looking for. I suppose myself and Martin can have another look for it and see what we can do.

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Originally Posted by immense

habbopedia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

might be copyright issues, i know wiki have moaned before but like users submit articles about habbo from hotel managers to rares and obviously content staff will have to verify it but tht wud be well gooood. me and garion can start it with our habbox stories seeing as we're gr8 at writing

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I thought you could download the software wikipedia use and then have your on "Pedia" site. :S

Edit: I think I'm thinking MediaWiki which is like the same of some sort.

HabboPedia would be a good idea - bit like Habbo(x) history.

most people are growing up and are only interested in the forum side of fansites nowadays, I don't think it's because of managers slacking or not being interested in it :)