Habbox.com Idea

[hah]

Since Habbo introduced the news into the client i don't think people really read the news on fansites anymore because of this. So i think instead of having the news on the main page when you first load up Habbox, have an events timetable with that days events and competitions because i know its real hard for them to advertise and i think this would be a great way for them to do so. Also the Main page wouldn't be solong

There would still be news but you would have to click the "News" tab to see it.

What ya think?

And i know there is events thing at the side but you could replace that with another advert or nothing... because i dont think people notice it

[scott]

The news doesn't open up straight away don't you have to type for it to come up? If people go on to check values or listen to HxL then they mite want to read it and see a different view point rather than habbo's. I think it's alrite to stay the way it is, but still a good idea

[hah]

The news is on the very first page lol???? under habbox rare update w/e its called

[Meanies]

I did add an events thingy up at the top of the site so they would be more visible, but it wasn't updated daily as it should have been and so it was removed. When we get around to creating the new layout for the site, they will be drawn from the forum calendar and displayed a few hours before it's due to happen. However, I don't see why we couldn't chuck this in on the current layout somewhere to make it more obvious

[scott]

The news is on the very first page lol???? under habbox rare update w/e its called

Um i meant habbo

[Martin]

I am about to go to work, but Part of me died inside when I saw this thread, so I best leave a small reply.


The News department is already discussing new reporting methods for 2010 which will make our News different from the usual Habbo offerings. We like to make the news more interesting.

People (believe it or not) DO read the news articles. We get comments on the vast majority of articles.

Popular News events (Such as the Habbo awards 2009 winners) do attract people's attention. There was (as far as i'm aware) no solid list of winners written on Habbo itself at the time, and us getting the complete list up within 10 minutes of the event finishing is quite good in my opinion, and the "hits" for that particular article were good. I feel if we can offer up Juicy News articles that are "current", then we can gather more readers.


Having to click a tab to get to the News would just reduce our views even more. Our Reporters work extremely hard when writing reports to include different content to the actual Habbo News article, and I feel they deserve the right to have their articles on the front page.

As dinasaw rightly said, people looking for rare values could notice an article that they like and decide to read it.

Some people won't appreciate what work we do to, but there are some Habbo users who do. Like I said, we are currently in discussion with the Content AGM, who is going through some new ideas with us.

News has been on the front page of habbox.com for a very long time, and at one time was a very popular part of the site. I intend to bring back that popularity. Just because Users can now see the News on the Habbo client itself does not mean we can't work hard to make our Articles more interesting whilst making it more of a "peoples" view of the News, in terms of what we as a Habbo community think of the latest goings on.


Sorry if this makes no sense at all, I will try and get some proper views up tonight, but all I can say for now is- bare with us and hopefully we can bring something which News departments on other fansites do not.

[Immenseman]

Habbox news should be more gossipy and conversational in my opinion but then it isn't really news, I know!! At the moment it's just basically a clone copy of the news posted on Habbo UK - if we wanted to see the news we'd check the article written by a professional, with all due respect.

[Meanies]

Habbox news should be more gossipy and conversational in my opinion but then it isn't really news, I know!! At the moment it's just basically a clone copy of the news posted on Habbo UK - if we wanted to see the news we'd check the article written by a professional, with all due respect.

My thought exactly. They need to be more friendly and informal to the reader and not so in your face with it.

I also suggested in discussion with the news peoplee that what you see on the front page should be a 'dumbed down' version of the full report for the audience that are going to read it. Not get rid of all the information, but leave the minor bits out and include them in the 'read more..' section

[Alkaz]

What if there was a scrolling thing for news? which would then leave more space for other things on the front page.

[Gibs960]

has a point, me personally I read the news on habbo... but I've never read off a fansite