Forum going down hill?

[Seatherny]

I think I'm allowed to say this if not, oh well it's demonstrating a point.

How can we be expected to keep new members when a minority of older members are very rude to newer ones.

A member that joined this month forwarded me a PM they had recieved from a Gold member earlier, it was horrifically rude and damn right inappropriate tbh, so with people doing things like that, I'm not surprised to see we can't keep members.

Why wouldn't you be allowed to say it.
And I fully agree. Admins need to reply alot more to posts. Make a new skin (don't need to delete any others ... just add a new one :S), something awesome like CHF Christmas Skin.

[Jamesy]

Adding on to this, because there's nothing good on TV, there is only a few ways you can turn this around in my opinion.

1) Get a new layout; ignore if some members call it childish as they aren't the ones who will visit it everyday. It needs to appeal to the younger generation.

2) Have some staff who speak friendly and aren't stuck up, also crack down on the racist members who only argue.

@Oli Well done for having the nuts to say that mate

New forum skins are under construction.

I also think the main site needs a new look, tad cluttered and the way it uses frames means the url always stay the same in the browser - frustrating if you need to share/ send links to people. Not sure why that is the case.

[Favourtism]

New forum skins are under construction.

I also think the main site needs a new look, tad cluttered and the way it uses frames means the url always stay the same in the browser - frustrating if you need to share/ send links to people. Not sure why that is the case.

The way frames are used is not to blame for the 'Forum going down hill' or even the site lol.

& Yes, maybe forum skins are under construction but are they good? If they aren't then Jin ought to PM me :L (http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?p=6189767)

[Titch]

FlyingJesus needs to take over this joint.

Seriously.

quoted for truth.

[Jamesy]

Yes, maybe forum skins are under construction but are they good?

I'd like to think so.

[GommeInc]

Adding on to this, because there's nothing good on TV, there is only a few ways you can turn this around in my opinion.

1) Get a new layout; ignore if some members call it childish as they aren't the ones who will visit it everyday. It needs to appeal to the younger generation.

2) Have some staff who speak friendly and aren't stuck up, also crack down on the racist members who only argue.

@Oli Well done for having the nuts to say that mate

Older and younger generation are the same, and shunning the older generation away is unfair and a bad idea. A skin should appeal to both groups, the newer members and the older members. Skins aren't usually shunned away by older members, the main reason for this is that new skins proposed tend to be really crap in general and appear to just be old skins recoloured. And how do you propose to get feedback from new members? That's like thinking what to buy a baby that hasn't even been born yet, let alone conceived :/

From joining ClubHabboForum, and comparing the two (been a member on there for a while now), you really do notice a difference - Habbox seem to be a bit tradional while ChF appear more modern and open to discussions, not forgetting the whole management team seem to get active on the boards and make no effort to appear superior in anyway, they just act themselves :/ They also seem to post updates regarding what's happening in and around the forums, and one main difference is that all the forums are properly placed. HxF is showing its age by the amount of forums there are, in other words, there are too many forums added that could easily be combined together. You should only really care about having more forums when the main, generalised forums are over-crowded with at least a page of threads replied in on the same day.

The "Habbox" category on here is a prime example, you could remove alot of the forums in that category, and move some of the "Help / Questions / Feedback" forums into that category. The name of this category isn't what you'd think of as a category name anyway, it looks more like a forum name

[-:Undertaker:-]

Considering there are racists and people telling you who to support etc, I am not surprised.

Edit: Just went on CHF after over a year, man their xmas skin looks amazing.

..is that why you tell people who not to support?. The Debate/World News forums are one of the only forums left with any real discussion taking place, don't turn on that just because you don't agree with a large number of people perhaps disagreeing with your take on an event/party/issue.

On the main discussion, I think cut down and introduce a new style then - and it'd be nice if something actually came out of this thread so perhaps one of the people who have taken a big part in it could PM the recommendations to management? - or make another thread with them in, or even better, polls could be held on the various issues and then something can be done.

[Favourtism]

Older and younger generation are the same, and shunning the older generation away is unfair and a bad idea. A skin should appeal to both groups, the newer members and the older members. Skins aren't usually shunned away by older members, the main reason for this is that new skins proposed tend to be really crap in general and appear to just be old skins recoloured. And how do you propose to get feedback from new members? That's like thinking what to buy a baby that hasn't even been born yet, let alone conceived :/

From joining ClubHabboForum, and comparing the two (been a member on there for a while now), you really do notice a difference - Habbox seem to be a bit tradional while ChF appear more modern and open to discussions, not forgetting the whole management team seem to get active on the boards and make no effort to appear superior in anyway, they just act themselves :/ They also seem to post updates regarding what's happening in and around the forums, and one main difference is that all the forums are properly placed. HxF is showing its age by the amount of forums there are, in other words, there are too many forums added that could easily be combined together. You should only really care about having more forums when the main, generalised forums are over-crowded with at least a page of threads replied in on the same day.

The "Habbox" category on here is a prime example, you could remove alot of the forums in that category, and move some of the "Help / Questions / Feedback" forums into that category. The name of this category isn't what you'd think of as a category name anyway, it looks more like a forum name

Yeah, I never meant to shun old members, but to include the newer generation more in terms of the things you stated.

I think the main difference is the atmosphere, as you said management on chf act like normal users and no-one is overly professional to the point where they can't have a laugh and act like teens like on hxf. I admit it, when I was management here I acted like a stuck up **** but since being on CH a while I've relaxed a bit more.

A balance needs to be struck though, due to the total relaxed nature on CH, some management members are immature and hold grudges (I got permed there as a 'techie' hated me lol).

The rules are more lax etc on CH too which allows members to be friendly with moderators. When nvrspk4 gets back, hopefully he will overhall things.

[GommeInc]

Yeah, I never meant to shun old members, but to include the newer generation more in terms of the things you stated.

I think the main difference is the atmosphere, as you said management on chf act like normal users and no-one is overly professional to the point where they can't have a laugh and act like teens like on hxf. I admit it, when I was management here I acted like a stuck up **** but since being on CH a while I've relaxed a bit more.

A balance needs to be struck though, due to the total relaxed nature on CH, some management members are immature and hold grudges (I got permed there as a 'techie' hated me lol).

The rules are more lax etc on CH too which allows members to be friendly with moderators. When nvrspk4 gets back, hopefully he will overhall things.

Urgh, so true! The rules on there are pretty good. They don't have pointless ones like that, *cough* foreign language rule which was dreamt up late one night They're nicely presented too. Infact, to get to the rules you have to go through the FAQ on here, they used to be in the links bar above, but that got removed for some reason. Quite alot of the links above could be removed really, unneeded clutter. A vBulletin Calendar is found at the bottom of the page.

What HxF needs are nice, professional skins. Not the ones we have now which are quite basic really. Bog standard. Surely the graphics team could download one from vB, and jazz it up?

[Favourtism]

Urgh, so true! The rules on there are pretty good. They don't have pointless ones like that, *cough* foreign language rule which was dreamt up late one night They're nicely presented too. Infact, to get to the rules you have to go through the FAQ on here, they used to be in the links bar above, but that got removed for some reason. Quite alot of the links above could be removed really, unneeded clutter. A vBulletin Calendar is found at the bottom of the page.

What HxF needs are nice, professional skins. Not the ones we have now which are quite basic really. Bog standard. Surely the graphics team could download one from vB, and jazz it up?

Take a look at my thread mate

I'd do Habbox a skin if they reformed everything as in rules etc :L