Forum Calendar for Events

[Josh]

Alrighty. I am from Australia and I am regularly on Habbox an "international" site. However, by the looks of the above calendar, it isn't very friendly for international users. The actual event name has the BST time in it as well, which is very annoying considering my forum time is past that already.

I'm not sure if it is possible, but here is my idea:

With the date on the side, I think it should also include time for it in forum time (so it's different for each timezone). This would just make it a lot more user friendly for the international users that you invite to the site.

The way it is, it just shows that Habbox is not trying hard enough to cater for international users.

[Nemo]

Alrighty. I am from Australia and I am regularly on Habbox an "international" site. However, by the looks of the above calendar, it isn't very friendly for international users. The actual event name has the BST time in it as well, which is very annoying considering my forum time is past that already.

I'm not sure if it is possible, but here is my idea:

With the date on the side, I think it should also include time for it in forum time (so it's different for each timezone). This would just make it a lot more user friendly for the international users that you invite to the site.

The way it is, it just shows that Habbox is not trying hard enough to cater for international users.

I agree to some extent. But didnt they recently have those really late night giveaways that were at like 2am for us? But i guess they could change this to make it much easier for people in other countries

[Josh]

I agree to some extent. But didnt they recently have those really late night giveaways that were at like 2am for us? But i guess they could change this to make it much easier for people in other countries

Sure, they try and bring in international users, but do they accommodate them well?

[xxMATTGxx]

I'm not sure if anything could be done to alter the calender in a way to show more times. Although when you click an event would you like it to show more than one timezone? We could always get them to do it themselves.

[Josh]

It shows my timezone on it if I click it (because of my forum settings). Does it really need the date there? It shows the events that are happening today so why put a date there? Is it possible to make the time there?

The name that Charl enters has the BST Time and it just doesn't help new users who would have no clue how to convert timezones.

[xxMATTGxx]

It shows my timezone on it if I click it (because of my forum settings). Does it really need the date there? It shows the events that are happening today so why put a date there? Is it possible to make the time there?

The name that Charl enters has the BST Time and it just doesn't help new users who would have no clue how to convert timezones.

So using that for events, you know the times are in your timezone? We made sure people put [BST] on so they knew all the times were actually in BST and they could check what that time is in their time. If you get me?

[Josh]

So using that for events, you know the times in your timezone? We made sure people put [BST] on so they knew all the times were actually in BST and they could check what that time is in their time. If you get me?

If the BST time is in there, new people would get confused. Some people have trouble registering, let alone changing/setting their timezone for their timezone. I don't mean to be mean but I'm sure there are people out there like that. As Habbox says, it caters for a younger audience... I doubt they know all the timezone crap so I reckon they could get easily confused by the whole BST thingo and rock up to an event at 7pm THEIR TIME when they are really early.

[Nemo]

So using that for events, you know the times are in your timezone? We made sure people put [BST] on so they knew all the times were actually in BST and they could check what that time is in their time. If you get me?

perhaps put a timer converter at the bottom? :p

[xxMATTGxx]

If the BST time is in there, new people would get confused. Some people have trouble registering, let alone changing/setting their timezone for their timezone. I don't mean to be mean but I'm sure there are people out there like that. As Habbox says, it caters for a younger audience... I doubt they know all the timezone crap so I reckon they could get easily confused by the whole BST thingo and rock up to an event at 7pm THEIR TIME when they are really early.

I suppose you do have a point. So without BST is this no longer a problem or do you have a good suggestions we can try and do minimize the confusion.

[Josh]

I'm not sure. It depends if the date thing next to it can be changed. It is obsolete basically because the event only shows up on the day. IF it could be changed, then you could do that. But if it couldn't be changed, you would probably have to promote it, get the user to somehow click it. Not sure other than that. It just has to be user-friendly.