Habbox.com Site Suggestions.

[Martin]

thanks for your reply. i agree with everything you said apart from the news section feedback comment. if some do & some don't why not make a poll on the habbox website & habboxforum website? you said that you want to hear directly from the people who use habbox & personally i can't think of a better way to decide the future of the news section

also on the 'habboxlive website changing' feedback i made a small typo and meant habbox instead of habbo

Its a Habbo fansite, you're 18 years of age (i think) and you're seriously getting hurt over someone saying the news department is dead :rolleyes:. It's an ugly long eye sore on the Habbox main page, and there is simply no need for it seeing as Habbo provides in client news. All you and your department do is reword it

There is no constructive criticism to give because it should not be there. There is nothing you can improve on and if i wanted to know Habbo news i would look on the forums, then the Habbo client. I wouldnt look on the Habbox site.

There's been a poll on the main site for nearly a month now. As I said in my earlier post, over 600 people voted in it, with a nice healthy percentage saying they either read the articles "all the time" or that they looked nice. Yes, there will be some who don't like the news aspect, and with the new site version, It's going to be more low key from what I'm told.



Yes, there are going to be slow periods, however in the past we've had lots of comments on articles, and this kind of reader interaction is important.

It all depends on the Habbo news, but often we're able to spark a nice discussion in the comments, even more so than forum posts sometimes. The reporters enjoy it, it's set out in a more personalised way to Habbo, it's from a players point of view.

April was a great month for us, with many articles reaching very high numbers of comments. There seemed to be a serge over that period, and I'm confident it can happen again on a permanent basis.

As set out further up this thread, from what I understand we are condensing things down considerably, making it look nice and streamline, but ensuring that they are still there should people wish for them to be so.







News has always been a strong point of the main site, and looking back over the years from when habbox first started out, there were no comments etc. I think it just depends on the individual, which is why this widgets thing should be perfect.

[hah]

Seriously, it was an idea. Read the thread title. I have no idea why you are shooting my ideas down when they are only suggestions, there is no need to go on a defend the news essay rant at all.

ITS AN IDEA

[Alkaz]

Even if it ends that news is no longer on the front page it is here to stay.

[Jamesy]

Seriously, it was an idea. Read the thread title. I have no idea why you are shooting my ideas down when they are only suggestions, there is no need to go on a defend the news essay rant at all.

ITS AN IDEA

He's making fair and valid counterpoints to your arguments. Ideas are best discussed in this way so they are refined and improved on as the process goes on.

[Meanies]

the whole site just needs simplifying. there's too much text and its ugly. the homepage is too cluttered and is just likely to force people away
We've realised this and we're hoping for a much simpler design which we hope will actually be contemporary compared to most of our previous versions and hopefully compared to other fansites. With the widgets feature which we will be having people will be able to have as much or as little information and bits and pieces on the page as they like.
if this actually happens, then obviously its going to be a plus for the site and make people come back more than previously.
the colours are ugly. yeah managment say 'but they're the traditional habbox colours' or whatever. every time this comes up, users object and say they're ugly. but oh no, management have to dictate what users get (which i know in a way is what they're there for, but the colouring is a key thing in layouts and having colours people don't want and have shown they don't want it just stupid)
Again, coupled with a much more contemporary design we hope there wont be awful clashes of colour all over the site however despite us dictating it to everyone, we will be keeping the orange. At the moment we don't know to what extent but it will definitely still be featuring in our new designs.
why. people don't want the orange and blue, listen to them and maybe the site will be popular again. or if an orange site is forced upon us, at least make the layout in a few different colours and allow users to choose
as if the main colour scheme wasnt ugly enough, the nav colours are just awful and i don't know why management insisted on them in the first place because it just makes adding things to the menu so much harder because when i was agm i wasnt actually told how to add colour to a menu item and so had to swap items for something which already had a colour, and people say i had bad communication. look at yourselvessss
I agree completely with you on this point, hopefully we wont have anything as disgusting again. I don't know if you were told but the only way to add colour is via ftp and General Managers / Jin are never that keen on giving it out, let alone to change areas of the site which could potentially be a big mistake if I / you were to change everything as though it had been hacked. I hope that the new navigation will just have one simple colour.
what do you mean hopefully. if someone says its going to be just as ghastly, object to it. the only reason i couldn't on the current layout was because i was only manager i think and oh no limey decisions are final. lol do you not have ftp? jin gave me full access
the navs also so cluttered. before i got fired (lol) my plan was to make all links go to a 'hub' as the guides page does as it's much neater, clearer and more user-friendly as it gives users an idea of whats on each page. don't know if this is still being done, but it should be done
a lot of content on the site is also a mess which i was slowly focusing on in my time as agm and making sure people were sorting it, but seems not. the staff page is something i was going to delay until the rest of the site was sorted so that it could be done well, but look at it, its just a complete mess and if i was the one responsible for it, i'd be ashamed.
Yeh that has become a problem, we're trying to go through and updating each page and removing what is not needed. As for the hubs one is planned for the Habbox and Fun Stuff sections, the others don't really need an entire hub. As for the quality and gradually going through things there was what I felt communication issues between myself and you when I became ACDM and when I became AGM I had no idea what your intentions were or what you had planned because of the communication. There have been a lot of other things to contend with as well and as for the staff list that will be getting another make over soon as well as elements from the original staff / management list being re-introduced. The main problem at the moment is with the images as we've merged, all of the images were ...co.uk/ where now they are all ...com/ so they've all broken.
well it's taking a long time to do that. it's something i'd started back in january before i was fired, why has it taken 6 months and its still not happened. its something that should have taken a week or two, or less if people put in enough effort. that's because i didn't like you and didn't want you as an assistant but had you forced on me lol. it shouldn't need another makeover, it should've been designed properly before it was released:S why would the images in content be broken, if people did as they were supposed to, images would be hosted on habbox servers to avoid that problem.
not being big-headed or anything (well it is but whatever), i think i was what kept the quality of content up. when i quit as manager i think the first time, the site went to **** so i offered to come back and get the quality back. then i got fired, and the site's quality has gone down again. not saying i was the only factor in this, but some content staff work nowhere near as hard as required

@graham, yeh i was gna remove that whole section but got fired before i could lol
It's been merged with fun stuff but we will still be keeping some things from the graphics section for the time being. The image archive which I think was only updated once was also removed a long time ago and is now a staff only feature.

in blue

[Alkaz]

The orange is staying and it may be that people can change the colours and customise it how they want, you will have to wait and see.

I mean ''hopefully'' as in everyone will like it and we wont release it and everyone immediately hates it.

And I do have ftp access but not to be able to do that. It isn't really something I have really needed to be honest, I guess Sam or Jin forgot to give me access to that when they let you go.

The images are broken because the Habbo.co.uk images updated when the person on Habbo changed their look which was better than someone updating it. Especially now it is a script and adds people automatically as well when Garion sets up their forum permissions.

Sorry my reply is not as, in-depth as you may have liked this time around.

[HotelUser]

What is your ideal Habbox.com? What do you think would draw in users, be appealing, fun and make Habbox.com the number one English speaking website around the Habbo community?

Behind the scenes we've been discussing layout ideas, but I think I speak for all of us when I say there's been a lack in communication when it comes to seeing what everyone else would like to see, particularly when it comes to features the site has to offer.

+rep for any good ideas!

Threads merged by Bolt660 (Forum Super Moderator): As they are both of a very similar topic, and ideas can be combined here.

[Nemo]

I dont think there is much you can do besides having lots of events (which afaik, we do already), having upto date and good rare values (which from what i remember/see, needs to be improved), and changing the layout (which you've covered already). Habbo has covered most things themselves, so besides this forum and the radio, there isn't much left.

[Robbie]

Would you as users of the site find something such as www.habbotimes.de and www.habborator.org easy enough to use, and do you think something like this would be suitable for Habbox?

[Nemo]

Would you as users of the site find something such as www.habbotimes.de and www.habborator.org easy enough to use, and do you think something like this would be suitable for Habbox?

i dont see anything complicated with habbotimes, but i HATE habborator. There is so much you might miss out and nothing is clear what it is unless you look at where it's linking you two. So i'd never use it if it was like that