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[Gina]

Hellloooo

This is prob a bit rich coming from me n watev because I've recently been manager but idk I feel this is necessary I've been complaining lots and not actually said anything haha so here we gooo

Staff

To begin with obv HxL is fab in terms of staff numbers. In pretty much every announcement there'll be at least 1 trialist coming in or someone returning to the dept so people obviously take an interest into HabboxLive. People who don't even have forum accounts apply and you then have to show them how to use it and stuff so clearly well known outside of the community and stuff too. I lit don't see that changing anytime soon either (unless it has opps) so fab well done

Sometimes because there are so many DJs, the quality begins to go down. The amount of seniors&head DJs are obv going down and I'm assuming struggling to find more meaning its harder to find people to actually manage the teams and report all the issues. I actually had a suggestion in terms of trialists and the quality of their slots and whatev though. It means more effort I guess though . Get them to do 2 apps (sort of) like first on being regular application form and then before letting them on, make sure they know the rules and do a 20 minute test run on the trial server. If they have a rubbish mic/music then just tell them to come back another time but if they're alrigth do what you do/did at school lmao the whole WWW: and EBI: and that way they won't go on air with a rubbish mic or being all laggy or problems with music or bad qualityo r whatever - it can be avoided .

Bit odd how the timetable isn't looking so packed anymore though. I used to ALWAYS struggle to get slots on air and despite the amount of staff numbers going up, the booked slots are going down? Saying that though, I don't see many messages telling me to 'book up' .

And finallyyyyyy, management. At first I thought it was fab having both an EU and Intl manger (and don't get me wrong, you're both fab) but mainly because there was someone to help focus on the international side. I did a giveaway from 2-5am and maintained 40 listeners throughout. The listeners can be easily achieved bbut someone needs to be there actually trying to get them to tune in. Hence why I thought Sarah would be fab because someone could acc do that and plan things for the international side but I never see that happening Instead I see a lack of communication between the EU and Intl managers due to the timezone differences. It isn't too bad and def should improve due to it being summer but wouldn't say it's too fab atm. A lot of DJs think that the deptartments just splitting in a sense that Sarahs incharge of Intl and Calum&Izz and incharge of EU which is something they def don't want. I'm sure that's something @despect; especially didn't want.

Saying that, it's great to see the 3 managers getting along well. Another thing though, with there being 3 managers now I thought loads of fab changes would come (please don't hate me) but I haven't noticed anythinggg. I'm sure fab things are planned for summer (or I hope at least )

Listeners

Even though the staff numbers are all fab though, can't reaaaally say the same about the listener count. They're been slowly getting lower and now isn't moving from that. HabboxLive probably averages from 15 - 23 listeners per day... It's currently 18:20 and there are 17 listeners surely that can be improved. I don't know if this is classed as leaking or whatever but if it is then please just edit it out but I mean the recent funding thing at HabboxLive where you wont fund prizes is rather silly especially if you're wanting listeners to increase lol. Not many DJs ask for funding and when they do it's likely to be a 5c prize. Management have been saying in all the events feedback threads saying that departments can ask for funds if they need to (I think), assuming that also fits for HabboxLive then surely you can ask for some credits to supply prizes? I also gave all the furni that James gave me when I became it as well as some of my own on top which was def a fair bit to keep you going at least. Management got given them 4 dragon things worth god knows how many credits each so I wouldn't think it'd be too much of a problem?
With that being said, a fair few DJs have been doing competitions which I've heard. I don't know if that's their own fab credits or managements however hopefully the no more fund things won't change what's there currently.

HabboxLive Events

Imo these are v important to do because they attract new listeners and such however not so many have been done recently? I've done quite a few win a rooms in the past few weeks and each time managed to get from about 15-20 to 40-50 listeners. Listeners love the idea of getting furni lmao. At the moment obv it's a requirement to do 2 events per month; imo thats hardly anythinggg though? Not many heads actually exceed that minimum amount of events meaning like 8 HxL events per month if that. You already supply the furni, maybe change it to 3/4 events per month or something? They could easily do one during their slots for that week meaning 4 giveaways/events easily done . If I do a comp such as win a room/giveaway I'll tend to do a comp relating to the forum (hence my 46 referrals), it encourages new users to join and stay with Habbox.

Not trying to pick a bone at you here Calum om sorryyy but in the whole time that Calum/Sarah and such have been manager, I think I was asked once to do a giveaway? Force the heads to do a giveaway if listeners are so low . Especially with HxSS approaching, he more newer users the better. Alsoooo just because you're manager n watev doesn't mean you can't do any yourself haha. As soon as you three have become management the amount of slots you've all done has lit dropped? Surely you want to set an example to the other DJs. Along with that, I don't see many event things being hosted by you guys either. Like I understand you may be busyy but surely you can't be that busy that you can't do 2 slots per week? And theres 3 of you soooo wouldn't tihnk it'd be such a busyy role anyway I know sometimes you all do DJ so it isn't all awful or whatever but idk pretend you know what I mean pls

Habbo Activity

Sometimes it's nice when you're tuned in to be down in the event/hxhd speaking to the current DJ requesting your songs and dancing and stuff like conversing in general but even then not all DJs bother coming online Habbo. I understand it isn't like requirement and stuff but it's a Habbo fansite they're DJing for, they could at leastt sit in the helpdesk/event and say hi every so often

To add to this surely the managers should be on a fair bit? Would be fab to have them sat in HxHD speaking to the people haha. I always see Sarah in HxHD going behind the bar and speaking/helping people but it's more of a rare occurrence for the other two to visit the helpdesk and speak to people. Please do correct me though, I honestly might just be on at the wrong time and I might be really unfair in saying that but I lit have no life lmao habbo is my life ;l would be nice to see you all sat in events/hxhd speaking to members of the community or telling people to tune into the dept you're running :¬:

(p.s I do love the DJ booth idea in the helpdesk, please force the DJs to go their and whip out da dekz)

Interaction

This is another thing I personally think is lacking. Majority of the DJs get on well which is fab and they sit chatting away in the staff chat, but I never really see management speaking to people. This is something @Kuybii; said about me when I was manager and tbh he has a point. I don't mean go round to each DJ asking all the questions about them like a profile or whatever, but even just speaking more in the staff chats/team chats an d no saying "book up", more along the lines of "HIYA HOW ARE U X" and acc speaking to them I've hardly spoken to any of you 3 properly since y'all got manager Calum probably moreso than Izzy and Sarah and that includes in seperate chats, team chats, etc

Another thing is the interaction with senior+ staff. I know I began mentioning this up there but Calum you even said to me before that you should be working with them. Ask them to do stuff like giveaways when you need them, go and say hey to them, have head dj call things and discuss ideas, like get some communication in there.

Weekly Shows

Get more of these! Get themed shows like Izzy's rock one like idk diff genres maybe? Fun ones and such? Like do a gameshow hour with a DJ or an 80s one like Retro did shows like that, top 20 all of that stufff. I know Calum had a good idea before and having something a bit like SNQ where a diff DJ hosts a show each week and get that known? Worth a shot surely

@dbgtz; has been saying in previous threads too how he wants shows like that and @Becca;
Make a show that people will want to tune into weekly Then a show to get listeners involved so now I'm gone from HxL get someone to take over who has VAC? Possibly even Calum.

DJ Profiles

This was one thing I wanted to do was manager and started speaking about it but never messaged the right person to get it continued. It isn't a very important thing obv but would be nice to have IMO. For those who don't know, on Habboxlive.com on the staff list if you clicked on a DJ, it'd lead to their 'profile'. On their profile it'd have like their age/name/country/most embarrassing moment/fav genre/fav song etc and just things about the DJ. For starters it helps people acc find the DJ. Not all DJs show their Habbo name or say it and stuff so it's difficult to figure out who the DJ is. Loved them tjoughh. On the HabboxLive panel, the profile bit is still there just needs to be linked with HxL


idk what else to put really I neverrr do feedback threads or posts this long so sorry if none of this makes sense lmao was never gd at english anyway been wanting to post one of these for a while but i felt bad cos i was acc hxl staff lmao but now i feel ok woo

enjoy reading this omg sorry if anythings worng cos it prob is
i love u all thp calum izzy sarah so didnt mean this to be just bite in the butt or watev
well idk i prob did
I DONT KNOW
ENJOY IM SORRY IF ITS AWF
i think i forgot olots but if i think of antythning i will post

Oh and also the communication with events dept HxL can do really fab events like joint with other depts but I'm sure theres been no communication between events and HxL when I was manager, tom odey was more than happy to host events and plan evnets, share comp prizes etc with me like split if we help eachother out but none of that seems to be going on

[Becca]

YOU GO GIRL
i tuned into hffm and had a better time in 5 minutes than 3 hours with habboxlive sorry
also, just let swearing be in songs... habbo is for people 13+ i am sure they have all heard a swear word before

[WoodyLFC.2k7]

So much of this is incredibly true. I'm unsure of the circumstances that surround some things.. Management inactivity and such. But it is definitely noticeable.. and a lot of DJs don't like that even just management interaction with staff is pretty poor too.. and what does happen feels really uptight.. there's not been much fun had.. people like fun.

Top marks for the time put in writing this Gina, I know it's taken all day..
Well done!

It's sad to know that you're resigning from HxL (You admitted this in the text, nobody hate me. xo) but as I've said, if you feel it's time to call it a day, for whatever your reasons are.. and the fact you've spent an entire day writing this to help a department you are no longer part of, is fantastic...
All you HxL haters, learn to feedback



Yay for Gina and her fab feedback! :¬:

[Empired]

gina you already know I agree with all of this and I'll +rep you in a min for putting all of this out there x I got a couple of things I'd like to suggest though and idk if they'd work or not buttt:

I was saying in the Help Desk that i think it would be fun to have more double DJing slots. and I don't just mean two DJs go on air at the same time, but maybe DJs could find guests at Habbox (ranging from anything to the forum manager to asst. general manager to dedicated member) to join them on air and chat for a bit.

I also think management really needs to start raising the profile of habboxlive more. I mean, I only ever really see OldLoveSong in the help desk and even then she's afk for quite a lot of the time. izzy used to come in hxhd all the time but told me a few weeks ago that she didn't come on habbo much at all anymore.
and who is calum? I see him on the forum and that's it. Gina asked 5/6 of us in the help desk what we thought of calum earlier and literally all of us didn't know who he was/that he was manager. That's pretty damn unacceptable lol.

I think habboxlive has been stuck in a rut for well over a year now. When you mention habboxlive, almost everyone in the habbox community seems to automatically assume you mean a bunch of 11 - 14 year olds who stay for 2 weeks and play a terrible quality of the same music. If you wanna get out of this, management and head DJs need to tune into successful shows elsewhere (not just other fansites but like Radio 1 and Kiss and stuff). Take note of the layout of the show, the genres of music played throughout the show, what the DJ talks about, etc and add up their ideas and copy them! (I don't mean do the exact same show on HabboxLive as on HFFM but steal their ideas if they're good and then make them your own!!!)

i don't even know if this made sense but i'd be willing to re explain if it doesn't x

[Gina]

oh another thing i forgot is becuase there are 3 managers maybe set to them a certasin thing to focus on? obv they dont only do that but seeing as some things are mising, get certain eople to do the lacking things then allow them to do the others so like calum did the staff issues, izzy did community, sarah did teams n staff interaction etc but hteyd al;l work o the dept still and eachothers things if tht makes sense idk like so its def being worked on in a way? :p
then other one is maybe certain months focus on certain things like at my school what they do is 1 term they focus on uniform, 1 term on shoes, 1 on planners , 1 on homework, etc but theyre all still looked att but ne thing is more idk BOOM where as the rest are boom so 1 month do quality then next do quantity cos the quality will be fab then next do comps cos theres loads of gd quality slots to do comps and such ;p would only rly be for a few months but thts a few things sorted

[Mikey]

I think that management should make a list of every single DJ and require them when they do their slot to send at least one of their shows to management by recording it through Stream Archive. They should be then assessed on microphone quality, song quality and overall show quality and then after listening they should have a tick or a cross next to their name, tick they stay, cross they're fired until they improve.

I know it's harsh but yeah.. :/

[Lewis]

Completely agree!

HxL quality has gone downhill a bit since since all of the staff & management changes recently. The department has so much potential but is barely using any of it right now .

[Gina]

completely agree

hxl quality has gone down since despect and gina left. the department has so much potential but is barely using any of it right now

calum and izzy and sarah can all be fab lit i think itsd good cos summers here now so should be easier for them to contact eachother and plans bits n bobs
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loads of people used to **** james off saying they didnt like him as a manager but he was honestly fab and knew whats he was doing

[Lewis]

gina you already know I agree with all of this and I'll +rep you in a min for putting all of this out there x I got a couple of things I'd like to suggest though and idk if they'd work or not buttt:

I was saying in the Help Desk that i think it would be fun to have more double DJing slots. and I don't just mean two DJs go on air at the same time, but maybe DJs could find guests at Habbox (ranging from anything to the forum manager to asst. general manager to dedicated member) to join them on air and chat for a bit.

I also think management really needs to start raising the profile of habboxlive more. I mean, I only ever really see OldLoveSong in the help desk and even then she's afk for quite a lot of the time. izzy used to come in hxhd all the time but told me a few weeks ago that she didn't come on habbo much at all anymore.
and who is calum? I see him on the forum and that's it. Gina asked 5/6 of us in the help desk what we thought of calum earlier and literally all of us didn't know who he was/that he was manager. That's pretty damn unacceptable lol.

I think habboxlive has been stuck in a rut for well over a year now. When you mention habboxlive, almost everyone in the habbox community seems to automatically assume you mean a bunch of 11 - 14 year olds who stay for 2 weeks and play a terrible quality of the same music. If you wanna get out of this, management and head DJs need to tune into successful shows elsewhere (not just other fansites but like Radio 1 and Kiss and stuff). Take note of the layout of the show, the genres of music played throughout the show, what the DJ talks about, etc and add up their ideas and copy them! (I don't mean do the exact same show on HabboxLive as on HFFM but steal their ideas if they're good and then make them your own!!!)

i don't even know if this made sense but i'd be willing to re explain if it doesn't x

I agree with this. And not to target anyone, I also have never seen Calum on habbo, or at least an extremely little amount times. Management should definitely be the most active out of all of the staff, alongside active heads and seniors. Obviously normal DJs should be as well, but yeah.

[-Nick]

I think that management should make a list of every single DJ and require them when they do their slot to send at least one of their shows to management by recording it through Stream Archive. They should be then assessed on microphone quality, song quality and overall show quality and then after listening they should have a tick or a cross next to their name, tick they stay, cross they're fired until they improve.

I know it's harsh but yeah.. :/

This will never work. Management won't have time to listen to every DJ at HabboxLive for a whole hour every week. Managers always tune into HabboxLive thats the same with seniors and head djs.

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I agree with this. And not to target anyone, I also have never seen Calum on habbo, or at least an extremely little amount times. Management should definitely be the most active out of all of the staff, alongside active heads and seniors. Obviously normal DJs should be as well, but yeah.

I think community department management should be on habbo actively. However content related is 50/50 they need to keep up with facts but don't need to bond with the community as much then other departments such events and hxl.