Originally Posted by
Hecktix
The downtime was an issue, but in theory these things should have happened before the downtime. These aren't things that members will get up in arms about, it's things that as they take that little longer they will have less of an impact. V6 is the prime example, whether it was "late" or not is irrelevant, the term "V6" was circulating the forums for nearly a year before V6 appeared, the hype about V6 had died down and it didn't get the reaction it would have got if it was released during the hype, in my opinion. General Management announced in feedback in February/March time that Habbox and HabboxLive would be merged, if this had happened in May/June while HabboxLive averaged at 80-100 listeners it would have had a much better impact than now when HabboxLive averages at 30-50.
Similarly with the forum skin, other forums have far more advanced skins than Habbox who are stuck with the boring, extremely simple templates Jamesy created when we moved to vB4 in March 2011. If you look at the seasonal, temporary skins David has produced, Easter, Halloween they are the best skins this forum has ever seen (in my opinion the best skins a Habbo fansite has ever seen) and if this forum had a permanent skin of that quality the face-value of Habbox would be much better, if I ventured onto the fansite page as a Habbo new to fansites and saw HFFM forum and then this one HFFM looks much more professional, this looks outdated and old fashioned - quite like the situation with Habbox.com before V6.
You may think I am just being critical of new management - I'm not, these things are things I highlighted as issues when I was General Manager it's just a shame they haven't been approached as the sooner as they are the sooner Habbox could get back on the upper foot against other fansites, I actually think it may even be too late for HabboxLive now.
---------- Post added 18-10-2011 at 02:10 PM ----------
Well if it's this one, David - I designed you a template for it in April :P