Habbox Live concerns

Hello Habbox Feedback!

I'm creating this thread with regards to the Habbox Live's current standards with regards to DJ professionalism and the roles of DJs on HxL compared to that of how they fair with other fansites.

I remember starting at Habbox, Habbox Radio and the change to Habbox Live. We used to get 300 listeners. This is a fact, there are various reasons suggested as to why we no longer obtain this listener peak. There's more radios, there's less users in general, there's not as big of an interest in radio streaming anymore.

Previously I would have assumed that the fanbase dwindled because of the latter two. However after merging in which many new faces were introduced to Habbox, and after listening more to HxL recently I do not believe this is the case any more.

I really do believe that listeners have been lost because standards of DJs have been reduced gradually over the years. I wouldn't necessarily put blame on the department's managers for this, because as another manager I'm aware that we do have to recruit the best that's offered to us.

As much as this might be disagreed with, or the ethics surrounding it might be considered rash, age does play a pivotal role in the professionalism and maintaining of high standards with DJs. That is not to say that all young DJs are incapable of DJing on the radio. I just think (after listening) that it's mostly the younger DJs (and of course it's not up to me nor anyone else not involved in HxL to name names) who tend to lose listeners. I've mostly noticed a loss in listeners when these younger DJs:
- Play the same songs over and over again. A new DJ comes on after a shift and starts playing the exact same songs we already heard, this loses a lot of users (despite rules about this. For instance just recently I listened to California girls four times in two hours; I genuinely counted. Not sure what's up here)

- Behaviour of these DJs in Habbox rooms and around the forum. DJs in the past such as Finkelstien or Leah built up a huge fanbase in the past for being incredibly active, professional and involved in most every Habbox department

- Experience. Although this cannot be acquired as easily with the younger folks didn't Habbox Radio used to have a separate SHOUTcast for training new DJs? More detailed criticism could be given to these DJs providing that we're not experiencing a recruitment crisis.

- This one is more harsh: It's less appealing to listeners to listen to younger (males especially) on air. As harsh as this sounds it's still in my opinion a roadblock. In general with the younger DJs--I'm not entirely sure how to explain it, they just don't seem confident when they talk, or they're not sure what to say exactly.

- That advertisement played. I know it's only played once every 30 minutes or something like that but it's a major turn off. I am perfectly aware of how sound the park makes Habbox in terms of financial security but surly they too understand that maintaining a fanbase is a requirement in order to provide sufficient advertising. I'm sure this could be resolved with some good old negotiation.

- There's been many times where there's been no DJ DJing. Mostly in North American times I think. Perhaps an international could confirm this one!

I totally agree with what David has said, just to add-on to this, I think the large number of DJ's also cause the professionalism in the department. A lot of the DJ's are not moderated and are not active as well as often screwing up when on air or just going offline at peak times. I also feel standards have dropped and the management is no longer pursuing the high standards.

I do agree to be honest. I remember when I used to DJ last summer, there was plenty of listeners and the majority of the DJ's were like, what? 16? Some young ones but there were so many brilliant DJ's who were 16, 17 etc. For example, Richie, Nicola etc.

I liked it back when the DJ's were more mature and it was great fun to work there! Unfortunately, as I returned to HxL after I resigned at the end of the summer, I didn't enjoy it as much as I did the first time, mainly because most DJ's left.

I've also heard from HxL DJ's that they struggle to get at least 100 listeners now! It's quite bizarre :O

I think HxL is a great department so this is a great thread you made David :P Hopefully some people comment about the concerns!

That's the plan Dean!

Bingo with Nicki and Richard. Two quality DJs inwhich compared to those todays seems to be standards fallen through cracks in a sense.

My opinion, ;

Senior DJs is a big issue for me, being a Ex Senior DJ. But I think there should be a rule on this. When on the Senior Account you should be able to DJ and not just be on the Senior account for ''hours'', cause i've asked some Senior DJs on the senior account to DJ to DJ or stream cause i had to go and i always seem to get a no, then i look on my msn, and look through the DJs and there is no one who can cover? Or the Senior DJs don't even take an effort to help and find cover, when I was a Senior I and I was on the account and someone asked to cover i said yes. Cause your suppose to be there to help?

Another issue is ;

Lack in DJing, I do see some DJs that aren't even posted away, and haven't DJed in ever and still staff. Most of them are international, and could help out with the late night streaming? Staying up till 8AM in the morning is ridiculous. Last night, I stayed up till 8AM, I had to speak on air at 6AM so it would be actually DJing cause thats when people woke up. but I find it ridiculous. I do understand everyone has lives, but I think the DJ requirement weekly should be raised since its summer and everyone is off and/or off soon.

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Originally Posted by :Lindsey

My opinion, ;

Senior DJs is a big issue for me, being a Ex Senior DJ. But I think there should be a rule on this. When on the Senior Account you should be able to DJ and not just be on the Senior account for ''hours'', cause i've asked some Senior DJs on the senior account to DJ to DJ or stream cause i had to go and i always seem to get a no, then i look on my msn, and look through the DJs and there is no one who can cover? Or the Senior DJs don't even take an effort to help and find cover, when I was a Senior I and I was on the account and someone asked to cover i said yes. Cause your suppose to be there to help?

Another issue is ;

Lack in DJing, I do see some DJs that aren't even posted away, and haven't DJed in ever and still staff. Most of them are international, and could help out with the late night streaming? Staying up till 8AM in the morning is ridiculous. Last night, I stayed up till 8AM, I had to speak on air at 6AM so it would be actually DJing cause thats when people woke up. but I find it ridiculous. I do understand everyone has lives, but I think the DJ requirement weekly should be raised since its summer and everyone is off and/or off soon.

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Don't they normally raise the DJ requirement during the summer?

I do see what you're saying though...

I agree with everything above. I can almost guarantee you will get flamed or the habboxlive djs will take it the wrong way. Some will say it was the merge that effected habboxlive however I disagree, I'm not sure if nicola remembers but almost a year ago the standards of djs were starting to get worse and began to lose listeners. I said to Nicola as I can remember clearly 'I bet you one day habboxlive will drop below the 100 mark' and it has, staff could see it happening from a mile away and my point is no-one tried to prevent it from happening.


Kazopark
That stupid advertising thing with kazopark definitely is effecting the radio, yeah habbox are getting money out of it but your losing the traffic. Below I'm going to list a few things that I think may help habboxlive.



Furni
When I tuned into habboxlive in 06 & 07 I'm not going to lie I mainly tuned in for the competitions and for a bit of fun. Prizes used to be stuff like petals, ambers and the odd week, thrones. Now its stupid pointless furniture like mochas or hcs. Habbox might not have the furniture to be giving away and I'm aware djs can't ask for donations. What I think jess should do and yes it may seem rude but ask people on the forum for donations. That way better prizes and more competitions can be supplied.



On Air Talk
I've seen how it works in fm radio stations as I'm sure others have and yes I know habbox isn't fm but wouldn't it seem more professional if your djs made a script before each show? Rather than them go on air and stutter and talk about complete ******** that no-one wants to hear. Ask the djs to prepare a script and what songs they are going to play, they can work their requests into the scripts but if all fails and no-one requests a song they can go by the script. This will also let you see which djs can be actually arsed to put effort into habboxlive.



Interact & make fans
Lets be honest, djs pop on air and the same listeners say 'your my favourite dj' but say the exact same thing to the next dj. The djs need to attract their own listeners, get on habbo get chatting with people and in the process meet new friends. Speak to more people on the forum, post around the forum a little more and in fact it should be mandatory that they post around the forum. As much of a ***** fest habboxlive is, the djs need to work together, when I worked for habboxlive I had my own 'group' as some would call it, when one of us were on air we would advertise loads for the other person, we would tune into one another and ask everyone on our list to tune in and I can assure you it definitely brought in more listeners. There was like five or more in our 'group' imagine how successful habboxlive could be if everyone worked together invited, listened in and were using their initiative to help out when not asked.



Spice up the shows
Try get the listeners more active, get a skype account and have a chat with them. Do what they do in fm radios, record yourself speaking to them, then play it on it on air (for obvious reasons) dig up some old tunes you haven't heard in a while, have a poll asking what songs the listeners are getting bored of, have a list for them to choose from. Introduce different genres, dubstep, r&b, rap, classical? do what you gotta do.



Speaking over songs & radio going off air
I have to admit, fair play. After the last rant I had its been cut back loads, which is fantastic. It still happens but what can you do. The radio still seems to be boring at night. Perhaps jin should take a look at http://shoutautomation.com/ they have been around a long time and its basically an online auto dj which plays when the radios goes offline and I'm sure you can set it so when a dj connects it kicks the auto dj off air. You can setup playlists, genres, what time you want a song played at, record voice clips to be played at certain times, add jingles etc. Its very helpful just a suggestion and no I'm not getting paid to advertise for them (Thanks to skizzling for showing me this). The radio is delayed by 15 seconds already, I reckon it would be better to delay it by about one minute so if the radio does go off air it gives another dj the time to realise the radio has gone offline and connect without buffer.



Advertise
Put up a few facebook advertisements, google, trade advertising links with other websites. Yeah it will cost money but sure habbox have money now from kazopark use it while you have the chance. The prices aren't too extreme for advertising.



Make the radio compatible for as many programs as possible
Flash, wmp, adobe etc. Have a drop down menu for visters to choose from.



Different competitions
Maybe I am contradicting myself with the above by saying we need more habbo furniture, maybe its time for a change. Give away cds, yes it may be personal to give out peoples full address. Parents should have the trust of habbox management, ask the listener for their parents name or ask them could they ask their parents to email you. All details should stay confidential and if they don't want you knowing their address suggest to their parents that you could send it to their nearest post office for them to collect. That way the only details needed is the post office address and the collectors name.



Take suggestions like a complement
It shows that some people are actually trying to help habboxlive improve its quality and existence. Don't take everything so personal it might sound bad but we are just trying to help improve habboxlive at the end of the day.



Jingles
Have jingles for advertising the helpdesk, the habbox lottery, the forum, the news, the rare values, the competitions and events. Sounds like a hell of allot of jingles but it will change the shows and make them seem different. They don't need to be played constantly.



Stop being so up yourself
I know some staff that won't even bother speaking to new people as they just think they are some how above them and better. Everyone is the same and both new & old should be treated with the same respect staff members get.





thats just a few suggestions that I think may help habboxlive, ignore them if you wish.
Richard.

I see where you are coming from but like you said Jess and Gemma can only higher what they get offered. I'm not a young DJ!

I remember this thread coming up not so long ago!

The thing about DJs, you can't always hire people with expereince, the best habbo DJs. Like Samantha said, they can only hire who applys. What people have to understand is that people gain expereince and improve over time and that's what is happening with HabboxLive. You can't turn away people who apply whos clip sounds good because 'you have no expereince' that's hardly fair.

The listeners have dropped quite a bit and i'm going to say what I said the last time, shoot me down all you wish but it's what I think is the case. Habbox.com - It used to attrat a good amount of listeners, Habbo introduced the market place it took people away from using Habbox for rare values, the lack of content/things to bring people back to habbox.com and sometimes the lack of Habbox events advertising us on habbo.

Yesterday I was talking to Jess about it and during the HabboxStarz show they had 80 listeners 50 of which were all in the party room so it shows that the listeners that are listening are indeed mostly from the HabboxLive site itself. The Habbox radio player should be changed to the same kind as HxL - I know many people who have complained about not being able to listen to the radio whatever the reason is I don't know that could be one of them. When comparing HabboxLive to many other fansites around then there is a decline in listeners quite a bit the likes of ClubHabbo gaining 30 listeners and peak times, so it's not just us.

I think HabboxLive need to have a bigger presence on Habbo itself it is the only way to get in listeners - I don't know if this has changed but when i was Asst. HxL manager i tried to get a HabboxLive sort of chill/chat room made, well I had it made I was just stopped from using it and making it an official room. Things like that HAVE to be done presence on habbo gains the listeners all fine and well saying use HxHD but it really isn't the same.

There is a rule for events organisers to have to advertise the habbox sites during the events, is there any rules about HxHD staff advertising? I know for one I do not look at room descriptions so I wouldn't see the sites being advertised and I very rarely see HxHD staff advertising - maybe that is something that can happen.

I agree with everything people have siad As a listener my self i use to tune in alot last year because there was more reason to listen for competitions and Djs i liked i have become less interested in habboxlive because there is no reason to tune in anymore the majority of the Djs act immature and they don't know what to say so they just make up random crap when they talk. I used to love Listening to people like Richie and Davey because they made it fun by doing things like find the Dj or GTP. They also spoke to you on the forum. With davey he was more prepared with his party rooms he would choose them before the show so he would be ready to get underway with the djing and he would have appropriate things to say to the listeners I dont think he ever partied in the HxHD because its very boring. But now-days everyone goes there and they cba looking for a party room because they cba with Djing altogether.

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Originally Posted by scott

The thing about DJs, you can't always hire people with expereince, the best habbo DJs. Like Samantha said, they can only hire who applys. What people have to understand is that people gain expereince and improve over time and that's what is happening with HabboxLive. You can't turn away people who apply whos clip sounds good because 'you have no expereince' that's hardly fair.

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The dj's are not improving, because there are too many dj's. When i came there was only about 25 DJ's and it was a really close team and everyone helped each other. now with over 50 DJ's people only talk to a certain bunch of people and don't help the new ones.

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Originally Posted by Blacktux

The dj's are not improving, because there are too many dj's. When i came there was only about 25 DJ's and it was a really close team and everyone helped each other. now with over 50 DJ's people only talk to a certain bunch of people and don't help the new ones.

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it also lets people who cba djing take a back seat while dedicated djs dj all the time like lindsey having to Dj till 8am in the morning which isn't fair
even with 50 Djs there is still unbooked slots like wth shoudn't all slots be booked if there are 50 able Djs to do it its not like they all have to go out at the same time. i think staff that are higher up should push people to DJ because people are taking advantage of dedicated Djs and just taking the back seat and not putting any effort in what so ever!

I agree with the listeners that are actually really low recently, but i don't think we need a seperate shoutcast just to train djs as that would take too long really, i think some djs are improving in terms of djing, but i do agree in the past and possibly now sometimes the behaviour by some djs arent very good around the forum or offical habbox rooms, also to add i don't think the ammount of djs we have is a concern really seeing as its summer now, so more djs will start going out more and gradually become more busy, so whilst the djs become more busy, we can almost certainly make sure the radio is online, which it is up most of the time anyway, i think the ammount of djs we have are a good idea, bigger staff list means more time the radio is online for. :)

I agree with pretty much everything, especially Richie. First off, I'm not saying that younger DJs are 'crap' because there are a couple who automatically spring to mind where I feel that they are excellent and pretty proffesional. I personally think that, with slight exception, Multi-DJ shows should be banned. When this occurs sometimes the DJs aren't as proffesional as they can be and for 99% of them I tune out unless their attitude remains the same.

Some of the DJs SHOUT DOWN THE MIC. I listen to HabboxLive when I write or read news (haha plugged it, go read news woo) but some SHOUT DOWN THE MIC and nearly deafen my poor little eardrums, and more importantly (kk I lie), I lose my concentration and start writing a load of crap then redoing it because I know I've gone wrong.

All staff should help others, and quite ironically, it's only a 2 week difference trial which is seperating a lot of them. I know I communicate with my staff a hell of a lot because they're nice people, life's too short to make enemies (peple who know me well know that I'm being very contradictive).

I like the idea of the CD prizes, it's just a matter of trust and how much Management can afford to spend.

Also I do like the "take it as a compliment" thing, Richie. Again it sounds quite contradictive because I argue with comps changes a lot, but whether it's Management or just the public we tend to come up with some comprimise which will help us all in some shape of form.

I knew Jingles were meant to be coming a long long time ago, where are they? These really help and I remember in the day when it wasn't just "Habboxlive.com live, loud and proud", now it is.

It's the morning so I'm tired but I think the way you act when posting (this is the feedback people) really helps because it's far calmer than some of the posts I've seen in other threads and it helps prove your point more, however persuasive you may think it is :). Richie you're also gonna get some +rep for some valid points wooo.

Also, this post was written once JustAbii.x first posted.

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Originally Posted by JamesOYES

I agree with the listeners that are actually really low recently, but i don't think we need a seperate shoutcast just to train djs as that would take too long really, i think some djs are improving in terms of djing, but i do agree in the past and possibly now sometimes the behaviour by some djs arent very good around the forum or offical habbox rooms, also to add i don't think the ammount of djs we have is a concern really seeing as its summer now, so more djs will start going out more and gradually become more busy, so whilst the djs become more busy, we can almost certainly make sure the radio is online, which it is up most of the time anyway, i think the ammount of djs we have are a good idea, bigger staff list means more time the radio is online for. :)

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Aha! Brain click. First of all, do you use full stops?! :P

The amount of staff is somewhat affecting it. Not the amount, just the people. It goes in two ways:

1) Everyone books, some poor innocent soul does not get a slot
2) Only half the slots are booked, a lot of the staff are away and some are just not doing their job

I've seen this too much and it really bugs me. It's the summer yet there were still slots yesterday which had to be covered. Also, recently (not naming any names), there have been slots where people book, then 20 minutes before unbook it yet are online through their slot? It is annoying for Habboxlive Management, the DJs and the listeners and I really hope that these things are noted during people who do this' report.

time to bring in fresh blood (new manager) i dont have a problem with jess but she has been in the position for years and its clear they need someone with new, fresh ideas. Im sure if management thought she was a great manager she would have been promoted to agm or something because she has been here so long, but she hasnt.

As Scott mentioned previously, changing the radio player on the main site to a flash one like hxl.com would help. I did speak to matt about it the other day and he agreed.

I could change them over in seconds, it won't affect Joomla or anything, but of course I need management permission first

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Originally Posted by sex

time to bring in fresh blood (new manager) i dont have a problem with jess but she has been in the position for years and its clear they need someone with new, fresh ideas. Im sure if management thought she was a great manager she would have been promoted to agm or something because she has been here so long, but she hasnt.

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im sure she got manager same time as me lol :S and think how long ago i was agm and think of all the time that i've not been staff. bless her, poor thing. anyway, hxl always has and always be **** lmao

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Originally Posted by scott

I remember this thread coming up not so long ago!

The thing about DJs, you can't always hire people with expereince, the best habbo DJs. Like Samantha said, they can only hire who applys. What people have to understand is that people gain expereince and improve over time and that's what is happening with HabboxLive. You can't turn away people who apply whos clip sounds good because 'you have no expereince' that's hardly fair.

The listeners have dropped quite a bit and i'm going to say what I said the last time, shoot me down all you wish but it's what I think is the case. Habbox.com - It used to attrat a good amount of listeners, Habbo introduced the market place it took people away from using Habbox for rare values, the lack of content/things to bring people back to habbox.com and sometimes the lack of Habbox events advertising us on habbo.

Yesterday I was talking to Jess about it and during the HabboxStarz show they had 80 listeners 50 of which were all in the party room so it shows that the listeners that are listening are indeed mostly from the HabboxLive site itself. The Habbox radio player should be changed to the same kind as HxL - I know many people who have complained about not being able to listen to the radio whatever the reason is I don't know that could be one of them. When comparing HabboxLive to many other fansites around then there is a decline in listeners quite a bit the likes of ClubHabbo gaining 30 listeners and peak times, so it's not just us.

I think HabboxLive need to have a bigger presence on Habbo itself it is the only way to get in listeners - I don't know if this has changed but when i was Asst. HxL manager i tried to get a HabboxLive sort of chill/chat room made, well I had it made I was just stopped from using it and making it an official room. Things like that HAVE to be done presence on habbo gains the listeners all fine and well saying use HxHD but it really isn't the same.

There is a rule for events organisers to have to advertise the habbox sites during the events, is there any rules about HxHD staff advertising? I know for one I do not look at room descriptions so I wouldn't see the sites being advertised and I very rarely see HxHD staff advertising - maybe that is something that can happen.

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Originally Posted by sex

time to bring in fresh blood (new manager) i dont have a problem with jess but she has been in the position for years and its clear they need someone with new, fresh ideas. Im sure if management thought she was a great manager she would have been promoted to agm or something because she has been here so long, but she hasnt.

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Originally Posted by Robbie

As Scott mentioned previously, changing the radio player on the main site to a flash one like hxl.com would help. I did speak to matt about it the other day and he agreed.

I could change them over in seconds, it won't affect Joomla or anything, but of course I need management permission first

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Originally Posted by Alex3213

I agree with pretty much everything, especially Richie. First off, I'm not saying that younger DJs are 'crap' because there are a couple who automatically spring to mind where I feel that they are excellent and pretty proffesional. I personally think that, with slight exception, Multi-DJ shows should be banned. When this occurs sometimes the DJs aren't as proffesional as they can be and for 99% of them I tune out unless their attitude remains the same.

Some of the DJs SHOUT DOWN THE MIC. I listen to HabboxLive when I write or read news (haha plugged it, go read news woo) but some SHOUT DOWN THE MIC and nearly deafen my poor little eardrums, and more importantly (kk I lie), I lose my concentration and start writing a load of crap then redoing it because I know I've gone wrong.

All staff should help others, and quite ironically, it's only a 2 week difference trial which is seperating a lot of them. I know I communicate with my staff a hell of a lot because they're nice people, life's too short to make enemies (peple who know me well know that I'm being very contradictive).

I like the idea of the CD prizes, it's just a matter of trust and how much Management can afford to spend.

Also I do like the "take it as a compliment" thing, Richie. Again it sounds quite contradictive because I argue with comps changes a lot, but whether it's Management or just the public we tend to come up with some comprimise which will help us all in some shape of form.

I knew Jingles were meant to be coming a long long time ago, where are they? These really help and I remember in the day when it wasn't just "Habboxlive.com live, loud and proud", now it is.

It's the morning so I'm tired but I think the way you act when posting (this is the feedback people) really helps because it's far calmer than some of the posts I've seen in other threads and it helps prove your point more, however persuasive you may think it is :). Richie you're also gonna get some +rep for some valid points wooo.

Also, this post was written once JustAbii.x first posted.

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Aha! Brain click. First of all, do you use full stops?! :P

The amount of staff is somewhat affecting it. Not the amount, just the people. It goes in two ways:

1) Everyone books, some poor innocent soul does not get a slot
2) Only half the slots are booked, a lot of the staff are away and some are just not doing their job

I've seen this too much and it really bugs me. It's the summer yet there were still slots yesterday which had to be covered. Also, recently (not naming any names), there have been slots where people book, then 20 minutes before unbook it yet are online through their slot? It is annoying for Habboxlive Management, the DJs and the listeners and I really hope that these things are noted during people who do this' report.

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@Dinasaw - I loved that room you made! It was like HxHD only a lounge that was so chill. And you let me and Christina behind the bar and write all over stikkies hehe :p

@sex - LOL. True to be honest, I think although she's great, there needs to be a new manager. She's been manager for ages. Nothing personal against you Jess if you're reading this. :(

@Alex3213 - true dat

Posts merged by Nicola (Forum Super Moderator): Double post caused by forum lag.

I have to admit i haven't read all of the replys as I have to go DJ now as there literally isn't anyone else to do it.
I have made complaints actually which I shoulden't say but I have about some professionalism in the department from senior DJ's as they actually make me feel unwelcome on the team, they are unproffessional themselves at times and don't have the standard of senior DJ's as they used to. I personally belive one promotion was unfair and wasn't given to the DJ who worked harder but maybe a DJ whos been here longer, I think this shoulden't be the case and the DJ who works harder and puts more effort in be promoted.

Another thing is kazopark I hate saying it so much and we get forced to and I have to stop doing my show and say something I don't want to and it annoys me and it shows in my voice and thereore goes onto the listeners and they too hate it, but you cannot expect me to say something I don't wanna say in a voice that says I do.

I try extreemly hard to be proffessional and at times when i've had to DJ like two hours in a row when no-o ne else can be botherd to DJ it is so hard to not be tired and run out of things to say however I do things such as saying little quotes from listeners which they want me to say one recently was actually ''wet cheese'' sure you want me to say it on air, It's you whos tuneing in not me I will try my best to get involved with the listeners and try not to be TOO proffesional but the point is im not a proffessional DJ i'm a habbo DJ and I cannot be something I'm not however I try very hard.

Habboxlive does need a big change, however when I mention it I get ignored unless Garion is the one listening, him and managment/senior DJ's have diffrent opinions which is why im so sick of going to my managers sorry Gem and Jess but I am, I'd rather go to Garion when I know somethng will be done.

That's all I can say I have to go DJ.

The player on Habbox.com has now been changed to a flash player to work in all browsers :)

if habboxlive was supposed to be professional then ok

everyone starts somewhere and people make mistakes, HabboxLive is far from being a professional radio station which is the way it should be

all i have to say

ta

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Originally Posted by sex

time to bring in fresh blood (new manager) i dont have a problem with jess but she has been in the position for years and its clear they need someone with new, fresh ideas. Im sure if management thought she was a great manager she would have been promoted to agm or something because she has been here so long, but she hasnt.

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She has been there a while and does a great job at managing HabboxLive - If she didn't she wouldn't still be the manager, how do you know that she didn't get asked to be AGM? I'm sure when nvrspk4 was general manager she was in the running to become it but nobody was able to take over as manager as HxL? I can't remember. When she became manager at first her and Jrh did quite well to get the listeners back up as they had dropped quite a bit, during her management the listeners managed to increase to 300+. It certainly isn't her fault in the drop of listeners, I was assistant manager at the time when they started to drop - the radio broke loads the server kept kicking people off and 3 weeks later it was still waiting to be fixed, even after many PMs had been sent to get it sorted. As I said it isn't just a decrease in HabboxLive listeners - all fansites are getting it too.

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The player on Habbox.com has now been changed to a flash player to work in all browsers :)

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Good :)!

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Originally Posted by Myke

if habboxlive was supposed to be professional then ok

everyone starts somewhere and people make mistakes, HabboxLive is far from being a professional radio station which is the way it should be

all i have to say

ta

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I couldn't agree more I think people sometimes forget that the DJs do it voluntarily and that it isn't a 'professional radio'.

There is quite a lot of posts I wish to quote but will take up far too much room.

Listeners: If anything I believe it's a bit of both. I don't think it's just the problems within the HabboxLive department itself but other online radios are also having lower listeners compared to the old times when there would be in the hundreds for pretty much nearly the whole day if it's in the holidays. Although improvements can be made to improve the current listener problem to see if it does anything.

Cover/Senior: Cover is such problem at HabboxLive, I've seen many times DJ's spamming msn asking for someone to cover but no one seems to do it. I'm not going to say "no one does it" because that would be a lie and I'm sure certain DJ's do cover when they can. This is something that should be improved by the HxL Management; maybe the Auto DJ Richie suggested could help in them situations. But Jin would have to say yes to that one

Kazopark:

I believe advertising this on air is part of the deal with Kazopark and Habbox. Obviously this is something that can't be changed with ease. I'm sorry if it annoys you that they have to say it like every show and what not.

Furni:

We do some of what have a furni/prize issue and don't have tons of amazing prizes to give away each time a competition is done on HabboxLive. Although Roxy can you give you the better answer to that as she is the one who mainly deals with any furni/prizes for the community departments.

Radio Compatibility:

I've just got Robbie (Site Coder) to change the radio player on Habbox.com. It should now work in all browsers without the WMP plugin. (Thanks to Robbie for doing that)


Regarding the HxL site; We will see.

Speaking over songs & radio going off air:

Speaking over songs can be quite annoying when it is tune you enjoy listening to or you requested. It has improved since the last time it was brought up but there is always room for more improvement in that. Regarding your suggestion for when the radio goes offline Richie, It could be ideal for times when no one can DJ but this is something Jin will have to say yes to. (Most likely)

I agree that Habbox itself and HabboxLive need to have a bigger presence on Habbo. This is why we have a week full of events and giveaways during this week (If I have the dates correct) which might/should help get the Habbox name more out there. Hopefully this will attack some new users from other parts of the world also.

@Alex3213:

"Some of the DJs SHOUT DOWN THE MIC." < Yeah some DJ's do like talk loud or shout loud which means I have to turn the volume down. Then the songs can be low and then I will have to turn it back up! :(

"All staff should help others" < I agree. Everyone should help each other, if they need help in doing something then help them/teach them if you know how to do something. Even if it's covering one of their shows for whatever reason. If you can do it, do it.

CD Prizes: Might have an issue with privacy and how many people would actually give out their address? Well the Post Office could do and it also depends on how much money we are willing to spend on prizes for our listeners.

Maybe the better solution is: iTunes or something. On iTunes you can gift Music/Films/Tv Shows/iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad applications, this way you only need an iTunes account and their email address right?

This reminds me of when DJ Sacha did a competition where she exactly did this. I believe it was popular? Maybe this is something that can be on a regular occurrence if possible.

Jingles:

Jingles were meant to come ages ago or something? I do not know what ever happened to that. I'm sure someone from HxL Management can alert me on what went on.

Regarding Hiring Staff:

I don't think we should turn away someone because of their age or lack of experiences. We all start from somewhere and we are not a FM radio station with 1,000s of listeners a day. They can only hire who apply and sometimes they can't do much about that. There is some great DJ's at HxL at the moment and there is also DJ's who could prove a lot and I'm sure they will do over time.

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I will keep looking at the thread and reply when needed. It's sometimes what hard to reply to everything but I think I've covered some of the main points.

I agree with almost everything David, Richie & Scott have said, +rep to you all. <3

Firstly, I hate the Kazopark thing. I feel exactly the same as Sacha, in fact when I first heard about it I thought it was a joke. It's impossible for us to pretend we're really enthusiastic when we're clearly not, I still think a jingle should be made for it but for some reason that hasn't happened lol.

I'm in two minds about new management, Jess does loads for the department and she's an amazing manager, but I do agree that someone with fresh ideas could be brought in, but obviously recently we've had a change in the Asst. Manager and I'm sure Gemma has loads of ideas in that noggin of hers ;). That being said, Jess is a great manager and I'd hate to see her go.

I do agree that more competitions with bigger prizes should be held. I'm terrible with comps cause I always forget to do them then try to cram them in in the last 10 minutes and it just fails. I know Aiden did a few throne comps and I think more of these need to be introduced.

In my opinion Habbox wasn't advertised anywhere near enough during the merge. I think giveaways should've been planned and held at least like twice a day, but I think the events dept have like a big week of events and giveaways and stuff so that should help with HabboxLive & Habbox as a whole. I'm really annoyed that Scott's idea of a HxL hangout was not allowed, it would've worked really well & advertised HxL a bit more.

I don't think there are many immature DJs at all. Theres a couple but as Scott says, they will obviously gain experience as they continue to work at HxL. I didn't have any experience when I first came so I think I've matured a lot and got better (hopefully :P). I really don't think there's a problem with ages of the DJs either, there's actually not many young DJs at all and I think it's just them sounding younger than they actually are - anyway applicants could hardly be denied "because you sound young" :S.

I think more events such as Habbox Starz need to be introduced, because that got us 100 listeners for the first time in a while, and the party room was full with 50 people, everyone was talking in there and the atmosphere was fantastic.

I might edit this post cause I forgot a lot of what people said so yh (A).

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Cover/Senior: Cover is such problem at HabboxLive, I've seen many times DJ's spamming msn asking for someone to cover but no one seems to do it. I'm not going to say "no one does it" because that would be a lie and I'm sure certain DJ's do cover when they can. This is something that should be improved by the HxL Management; maybe the Auto DJ Richie suggested could help in them situations. But Jin would have to say yes to that one


Speaking over songs & radio going off air:

Speaking over songs can be quite annoying when it is tune you enjoy listening to or you requested. It has improved since the last time it was brought up but there is always room for more improvement in that. Regarding your suggestion for when the radio goes offline Richie, It could be ideal for times when no one can DJ but this is something Jin will have to say yes to. (Most likely)

Jingles:

Jingles were meant to come ages ago or something? I do not know what ever happened to that. I'm sure someone from HxL Management can alert me on what went on.

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Auto-DJ - a big no no. It was tried in the past and failed, someone would need to be on to kick it off - It would make the DJs lazy and just think 'oh well if nobody DJs it doesn't matter the auto dj will come on'. What was the big thing about stopping streaming? :S That's what that would be...pretty stupid and pointless.

Jingles were meant to be ready in March :) In May i contacted Jin asking and apparently there was no money to buy any.

@Robbie

Can you PLEASE add a volume control to Habbox.com? I have a Mac and I can NOW listen on Habbox.com BUT, it's too loud! and I can't change the volume. :'(

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@Robbie

Can you PLEASE add a volume control to Habbox.com? I have a Mac and I can NOW listen on Habbox.com BUT, it's too loud! and I can't change the volume. :'(

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I don't know if there's space. It's currently set at 45/100 at default. I'll ask Matt though

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I don't know if there's space. It's currently set at 45/100 at default. I'll ask Matt though

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Thanks :D

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Thanks :D

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OK, I'm going to try and add a volume control under the Listeners on the stats. It may not work though, so I'll post again later with an update :P

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if habboxlive was supposed to be professional then ok

everyone starts somewhere and people make mistakes, HabboxLive is far from being a professional radio station which is the way it should be

all i have to say

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Well they should strive to be as professional as possible, i dont know bout you, but i dont wanna listen to some amateur crap when i could just go to listen what i wanted or to a better radio station

not saying hxl atm is amateur crap, just usin that as an example

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OK, I'm going to try and add a volume control under the Listeners on the stats. It may not work though, so I'll post again later with an update :P

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Great :D

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Well they should strive to be as professional as possible, i dont know bout you, but i dont wanna listen to some amateur crap when i could just go to listen what i wanted or to a better radio station

not saying hxl atm is amateur crap, just usin that as an example

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True this. It's like saying, OKAY HXHD STAFF, YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO YOUR BEST! JUST TRY.

I think it's incredibly hard to get the balance between being professional and yet still sounding friendly. The age range of the majority of listeners is like 11-15, so you can't be too professional but obviously you can't sound like you don't even know what you're saying.

I think it's easy to say that DJs are unprofessional from a listener perspective, but when you're actually doing it it's a lot harder. I know it's important to sound professional and I always try my best to, I'm just saying it's a hard thing to do without sounding like some sort of robot ;).

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Well they should strive to be as professional as possible, i dont know bout you, but i dont wanna listen to some amateur crap when i could just go to listen what i wanted or to a better radio station

not saying hxl atm is amateur crap, just usin that as an example

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and no doubt you're in the 'older' sector of the forum rather than the younger ones.

most younger kids don't really care if dj's talk over songs or whatever

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Auto-DJ - a big no no. It was tried in the past and failed, someone would need to be on to kick it off - It would make the DJs lazy and just think 'oh well if nobody DJs it doesn't matter the auto dj will come on'. What was the big thing about stopping streaming? :S That's what that would be...pretty stupid and pointless.

Jingles were meant to be ready in March :) In May i contacted Jin asking and apparently there was no money to buy any.

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If you're using Centova you can always have the AutoDJ for that and get the free script provided so DJs can login and kick the autoDJ on/off, just implement it into the panel so they can do it when they login to the panel. :)

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If you're using Centova you can always have the AutoDJ for that and get the free script provided so DJs can login and kick the autoDJ on/off, just implement it into the panel so they can do it when they login to the panel. :)

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like scott said, it would make the dj's lazy and logging onto habboxlive to just listen to music is boring, which is why streaming was stopped anyway

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If you're using Centova you can always have the AutoDJ for that and get the free script provided so DJs can login and kick the autoDJ on/off, just implement it into the panel. :)

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I think Auto DJ is an excellent feature. I remember last year in the summer, I sometimes had to DJ ALL NIGHT. Meaning 2am-6am, just because no one was willing to DJ. I know that this has always been a problem at HxL (finding DJs at times and covers) so I think Auto DJ is the way forward. You can't expect kids to keep the radio up 24/7 can you?

Auto DJ is also widely available too.

I agree that some DJ's could get lazy if an Auto DJ feature was introduced. Streaming always drops listeners anyway, so we could end up with even less listeners than we already have. The radio is already online nearly 24/7 anyway so I don't really think it's needed personally.

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I think Auto DJ is an excellent feature. I remember last year in the summer, I sometimes had to DJ ALL NIGHT. Meaning 2am-6am, just because no one was willing to DJ. I know that this has always been a problem at HxL (finding DJs at times and covers) so I think Auto DJ is the way forward. You can't expect kids to keep the radio up 24/7 can you?

Auto DJ is also widely available too.

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but why would you tune in to listen to songs and stuff when you can listen to the music you want by using itunes or spotify, the only time i tune into hxl is if theres something interesting going down in the habbo hallz `8=*+* or if there's some chatting ...

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I think Auto DJ is an excellent feature. I remember last year in the summer, I sometimes had to DJ ALL NIGHT. Meaning 2am-6am, just because no one was willing to DJ. I know that this has always been a problem at HxL (finding DJs at times and covers) so I think Auto DJ is the way forward. You can't expect kids to keep the radio up 24/7 can you?

Auto DJ is also widely available too.

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Yeah, i'm sure some people can't stand staying up that long so if no one will go on then they can just turn that on then the next DJ can turn it off. You could even schedule the Auto DJ to play at a certain time, like a certain playlist such as R&B/Dance.

Also, I think international DJs need to DJ more, it's always like this and something needs to be done. Just looking at the timetable, the only DJs who DJ during international times are Hazy and Matt and they book lots of slots each due to no other international DJs doing anything, i've not seen any other international DJs DJing really.

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I agree that some DJ's could get lazy if an Auto DJ feature was introduced. Streaming always drops listeners anyway, so we could end up with even less listeners than we already have. The radio is already online nearly 24/7 anyway so I don't really think it's needed personally.

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Most DJs who DJ at about 3am etc. stream anyway, so it's just the same.

As Calvin said, most international DJs DJ at national times lol, they need to be told to DJ at international times or not at all?