Habbox site review.

[Adzeh]

I know it seems a bit ironic that I am questioning this, but is this really a review? It seems more like an advert to me...

In my opinion, a review is a non subjective piece that considers both the positive and negative aspects of the object that is being discussed, but shows no real bias other than possibly a bit of opinion from the author at relevant points.

Surely we aren't in a position where there are no negatives about our site and policies? :rolleyes:

[Favourtism]

I know it seems a bit ironic that I am questioning this, but is this really a review? It seems more like an advert to me...

In my opinion, a review is a non subjective piece that considers both the positive and negative aspects of the object that is being discussed, but shows no real bias other than possibly a bit of opinion from the author at relevant points.

Surely we aren't in a position where there are no negatives about our site and policies? :rolleyes:

After reading again it does sound like an advertisement. I was replying to UNDERTAKER's comments before anyway. I agree that Habbox has negatives as everything does.

[Muniflex]

Lol like i said, it took me 5 mins.. I just wanted to write about habbox. Was originally going ot be for Writers application.
I might write a full review if i have some free time over the next week.
Should I?
And mayube include a few points you feel i should add in.

[HotelUser]

I miss the good old Habbo days when we had that old habbos with the blue and orange, aah, bring it back !

[---MAD---]

The site has rapidly fell apart over the past year, the skin is a free skin ive been told, most of the rares are missing, Rare Watch is hardly updated, News is slow to come through (thats if it ever does), The guides are outdated, Articles hardly are written anymore, Management as in sierk contradicts himself and his sites definitions and Management also put up polls asking the public's opinion but qwhen it doesn't swing their way they ignore it.

I don't really see what the problem is with a free skin although we are working on that as we speak. It does the job IMO. Many popular sites in the world simply use a black background with plain text on it and manage to pull in hundreds of thousands of users a day. I can't remember the links any more as their topics don't interest me but they do exist and remain popular.

In all honesty no matter what we make the site look like, there will always be a group of people that don't like it. Content is what matters most.

Instead of saying most the rares are missing and the rare watch is hardly updated, why not tell us which rares are missing? Or whats outdated in the rare watch?

What guides are outdated? Which parts of the guides?

Constructive critisim is the only way one can improve anything - what you have provide is negative comments that we cannot work from.

Thanks
MAD

[xBenxx]

The site has rapidly fell apart over the past year, the skin is a free skin ive been told, most of the rares are missing, Rare Watch is hardly updated, News is slow to come through (thats if it ever does), The guides are outdated, Articles hardly are written anymore, Management as in sierk contradicts himself and his sites definitions and Management also put up polls asking the public's opinion but qwhen it doesn't swing their way they ignore it.

I agree with you! plus theres tones of bullys on the forum, hence why the user registrations have been going down.

[Favourtism]

I agree that sometimes the forum can be full of arguements but that's the users not Habbox. Also Moderators sort out the problem quite quickly.

Like MAD said instead of just saying ''BAH HABBOSCUKZ EVERYTHINGIS RUBBUSH M8Z K'' give ideas on how it oculd be improved etc.

[-:Undertaker:-]

I believe that the Rare Watch is being updated more often than before now as I have set tasks for each of the Content Designers.

If you have any comments, suggestions etc then you should PM me and I will see what I can do about it for you

That is the whole point though.
The pages are left outdated for months, someone comes along and adds a few things, it gets left AGAIN for a few months. I am not going to PM any admin as sierk doesn't value what people outside management say, remember the two polls linked with Rare Values? He ignored them because the vote didn't swing his way.

I would have to defend two of those points:

The news is updated extremely often, usually by Favourtism. From a conversation we had yesterday, he posted a full 35 reports last week; there is no problem with the news on the site.

Since its my department, I will also defend the point about the articles. Compared to in the summer where you were lucky to get one article per week, there are at least 3/4 articles per week, increased to 6 this week with the two new trialists; and thats only if the team write to their bare minimum requirement, it isnt unusal for some staff to post more (for example, Lost-Shark has written 2 articles this week I believe). Also, the quality of the articles has shot up, with them looking fantastic and having high quality content and SPAG, and quality over quantity dictates that that is worth more than 10 poorly written articles per week.

The news has improved slightly over past week, but is still slow. I remember the days when the news was posted as it happened. the Articles are slowly coming through and they seem to be increasingly repeats of what has been posted many times before.

I disagree. Yes the site is a free skin but in my opinion it looks good and no over major sites use it. Articles are being written more frequently. I posted 1 news report on habbox this week before it was posted on Habboxforum ( a UK one) and I post all/most of the International reports before they are posted on H. I cannot comment on sierk and GM's as I don't have access to what they do however they must be doing very well to get a forum this popular and a site and radio immensely popular. Recently all the departments which may have been lacking, have been drastically improved.


Yes our conversation last night he he Last week I posted 30 News reports and this week since Saturday night I have posted 21. I think the UK news is posted very fast and due to being offered lots of news positions by other fan sites I started to look at their news. Habbox news has been posted a LOT quicker than on other sites the last few weeks so it is improving. You will probably say one person (being me) does not make a department. Well with Yum as ANM now they news department has strong management which can only push the department forward. The other remaining reporters have been away for a good few weeks but when they return there will be another 3 news reports posted each week from each of them and that is if they stick to the minimum.

It's good that you criticise UNDERTAKER as everyone needs criticism however plain negatives is just going to make Habbox staff feel like they have been spat at. The lacking departments ( If any now ) are still being improved so soon hopefully there will be nothing to slate.

If you feel your being spat at, then work harder because a lot of people think the same on Habbo as I do.

I don't really see what the problem is with a free skin although we are working on that as we speak. It does the job IMO. Many popular sites in the world simply use a black background with plain text on it and manage to pull in hundreds of thousands of users a day. I can't remember the links any more as their topics don't interest me but they do exist and remain popular.

In all honesty no matter what we make the site look like, there will always be a group of people that don't like it. Content is what matters most.

Instead of saying most the rares are missing and the rare watch is hardly updated, why not tell us which rares are missing? Or whats outdated in the rare watch?

What guides are outdated? Which parts of the guides?

Constructive critisim is the only way one can improve anything - what you have provide is negative comments that we cannot work from.

Thanks
MAD

The site looked good when it first got the skin, however the skin is old and boring now and other sites such as ClubHabbo make yourn site look like a freewebs one. It's time Habbox have seasonal sites which look good.

I won't go through what is missing, isn't that the job of your RV Staff? I am not RV Staff so why the hell would I write out a list of what is missing. I do occasionally help Immenseman with Images but i'm afraid it's not my job it's the Departments. Sierk does seem to have lost control of his own Department/s.

I believe you have a hard job, your much more different and clear minded than sierk and 8Freak8 put together yet sierk seems to block things that you and the public support which I find is a shame.

[GoldenMerc]

No the site doesnt look good, I loved the old one

[Alkaz]

Can i ask what guides are outdated because ive written most of them.