Downtime..

[beth]

last night, i think, was different to the 'normal' 2am 5 minute downtime. habboxlive panel went down aswell for a good ten minutes and i don't recall that ever doing it during those times.

[Chippiewill]

Surely that's every 24 hours

Does it in the mornings as well.

[Recursion]

Of course, if they gave a third person (capable of using Linux) access to everything it wouldn't really be an issue.

Also, Move to IP.Board.

[Chippiewill]

Of course, if they gave a third person (capable of using Linux) access to everything it wouldn't really be an issue.

There's only really Matt for that, but it is a good idea. If you can trust him to be GM you should be able to trust him not to blow up the server.

Also, Move to IP.Board.

Now, now, we've already had a sensible suggestion in this thread.

[Recursion]

There's only really Matt for that, but it is a good idea. If you can trust him to be GM you should be able to trust him not to blow up the server.


Now, now, we've already had a sensible suggestion in this thread.

Aww, did I blow Habbox's sensible suggestion quota for the year?

[GommeInc]

In regards of the VIP rule:

When we last contacted Habbo over the matter they said they will look into any fansite rules and see if any need to be changed within so many months. They also told me why the rule was put in place because of other fansites in the Habbo World used their status to sell unofficial Habbo goods and services that they couldn't vouch for. So they banned all types of premium servers across each hotel as the result. I did explain that VIP wasn't like that and was similar to donator but they don't seem to like that either way. If VIP was ever allowed and did return, it would mean VIP as a prize would be pretty much pointless and may cause some problems for some departments. Then again, I don't actually see Sulake/Habbo changing this rule any time soon.

So in short - too much imbreeding in the Habbo ranks? If they clearly lack the brains to figure out that Habbox ISN'T a malicious site, but one that has been devoted, loyal and useful to the Habbo franchise and Sulakes greasy little fingers, then it's no wonder Habbo Hotel and Sulake have lost so much faith in the Habbo Community - and it's no wonder the Habbo experience is, in what modern talk would describe as, '****'. Habbo standards have slipped, and they clearly have the wrong people in charge. Why punish the masses when they can easily deal with the minority who are selling off products they do not own? Why should they care when the liability is in the hands of the idiots who are being scammed? I'd keep pushing them for answers and constantly badger them about why they are punishing Habbox when they know Habbox isn't a malicious, scam and fraud site. It's ridiculous. Habbox has a good reputation with Habbo, it should be allowed to sell or offer VIP as that was incredibly popular with members of the board and worth the money you gave for the features.

But of course you would need to solve the way the server is configured, or whatever the techies on here are suggesting

Well Jins or Sierks. A lot of people forget that their cards expire on a certain day and when you are working away or on holiday, it's not normally something you think about straight away.

They (Jin or someone else) got reminders about the expiration dates and late payments notice. Not sure what they meant by filing away but I assume emails. It was easily avoidable, let's be honest

Also, Move to IP.Board.

+1 for that idea. The new IP.Board (3.2.2) is very very sexy

EDIT: Also, people will still sell Habbo goods that they do not own - they cannot find them and when they do they've caught 1 person out of a few thousand. They cannot stop it, and to punish the good, decent fansites for this is barbaric and wrong on oh so many levels.

[HotelUser]

Of course, if they gave a third person (capable of using Linux) access to everything it wouldn't really be an issue.

Also, Move to IP.Board.

I am in love with many aspects of IP Board, unfortunately we run a lot of plugins and a lot of plugins designed specifically for vbulletin sadly though, and that in addition to all our templates would make for a very big headache to switch over. Not to mention that we'd have to convert the database structure which is also not necessarily always a quick and flawless procedure

[Chippiewill]

The server probably wouldn't cope to well with a transfer anyway, it's on it's last legs as it is..

[GommeInc]

I am in love with many aspects of IP Board, unfortunately we run a lot of plugins and a lot of plugins designed specifically for vbulletin sadly though, and that in addition to all our templates would make for a very big headache to switch over. Not to mention that we'd have to convert the database structure which is also not necessarily always a quick and flawless procedure

Depends what plugins you use. Some you could sacrifice for the sake of having a better forum while some plugins are probably standard on IP.Board. I think they made their own rep system, which is possibly the only thing vBulletin had before as a standard feature. But this is of course all hypothetical

[Showder]

i think Jin is already thinking about going. Cuz he aint doin much?