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[Catzsy]

What makes me sad is that there's been an amazing new skin in development since I was AGM, although it can't be forgotten that projects take time I think there should have been a new skin out this summer.

I think what you forget sometimes is that Habbox is not a business. It is run purely by volunteers who come on here to chill and have fun not to get stressed out. There are a lot of extremely dedicated and hardworking volunteers without whom Habbox would be nowhere near as good as it is. Whatever these people contribute should be congratulated.

[HotelUser]

what happened to the thing about seeing how many posts people have in spam so far

It has not been forgotten, the problem with the idea was that this would put a heavy strain on our poor forum server, so when I do write this it'l require a little cache based tinkering to make it play nicely, but still fairly report on post counts.

[Hecktix]

I think what you forget sometimes is that Habbox is not a business. It is run purely by volunteers who come on here to chill and have fun not to get stressed out. There are a lot of extremely dedicated and hardworking volunteers without whom Habbox would be nowhere near as good as it is. Whatever these people contribute should be congratulated.

It's not forgotten at all and the people who work hard are congratulated tremendously, however HabboxForum hasn't had a non-themed new skin created since March 2010. The site skin is very out of date and was planned to be replaced, it should have been. It's not the work of the people I am criticising I guess it's the priorities and orders in which work is done, in my eyes important things such as the merge of Habbox and HabboxLive and a site skin to match v6 have been put back over other projects when they shouldn't have been.

[Catzsy]

It's not forgotten at all and the people who work hard are congratulated tremendously, however HabboxForum hasn't had a non-themed new skin created since March 2010. The site skin is very out of date and was planned to be replaced, it should have been. It's not the work of the people I am criticising I guess it's the priorities and orders in which work is done, in my eyes important things such as the merge of Habbox and HabboxLive and a site skin to match v6 have been put back over other projects when they shouldn't have been.

Well there has not been any members up in arms about, posting threads demanding one, Oli so I guess it is not one of their top priorities either unlike the problems with the downtime. Maybe what is important to you personally is not necessarily what is important to others.

[HotelUser]

It's not forgotten at all and the people who work hard are congratulated tremendously, however HabboxForum hasn't had a non-themed new skin created since March 2010. The site skin is very out of date and was planned to be replaced, it should have been. It's not the work of the people I am criticising I guess it's the priorities and orders in which work is done, in my eyes important things such as the merge of Habbox and HabboxLive and a site skin to match v6 have been put back over other projects when they shouldn't have been.

The Halloween skin was one of two skins I created recently. You just cannot see the other one.

[Slowpoke]

The Halloween skin was one of two skins I created recently. You just cannot see the other one.

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[beth]

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omfg, spoilerzzzz.

[Slowpoke]

Not posted anything that hasn't already been revealed That screenshot was taken by David

[Hecktix]

Well there has not been any members up in arms about, posting threads demanding one, Oli so I guess it is not one of their top priorities either unlike the problems with the downtime.

The downtime was an issue, but in theory these things should have happened before the downtime. These aren't things that members will get up in arms about, it's things that as they take that little longer they will have less of an impact. V6 is the prime example, whether it was "late" or not is irrelevant, the term "V6" was circulating the forums for nearly a year before V6 appeared, the hype about V6 had died down and it didn't get the reaction it would have got if it was released during the hype, in my opinion. General Management announced in feedback in February/March time that Habbox and HabboxLive would be merged, if this had happened in May/June while HabboxLive averaged at 80-100 listeners it would have had a much better impact than now when HabboxLive averages at 30-50.

Similarly with the forum skin, other forums have far more advanced skins than Habbox who are stuck with the boring, extremely simple templates Jamesy created when we moved to vB4 in March 2011. If you look at the seasonal, temporary skins David has produced, Easter, Halloween they are the best skins this forum has ever seen (in my opinion the best skins a Habbo fansite has ever seen) and if this forum had a permanent skin of that quality the face-value of Habbox would be much better, if I ventured onto the fansite page as a Habbo new to fansites and saw HFFM forum and then this one HFFM looks much more professional, this looks outdated and old fashioned - quite like the situation with Habbox.com before V6.

You may think I am just being critical of new management - I'm not, these things are things I highlighted as issues when I was General Manager it's just a shame they haven't been approached as the sooner as they are the sooner Habbox could get back on the upper foot against other fansites, I actually think it may even be too late for HabboxLive now.

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The Halloween skin was one of two skins I created recently. You just cannot see the other one.

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Well if it's this one, David - I designed you a template for it in April

[HotelUser]

The downtime was an issue, but in theory these things should have happened before the downtime. These aren't things that members will get up in arms about, it's things that as they take that little longer they will have less of an impact. V6 is the prime example, whether it was "late" or not is irrelevant, the term "V6" was circulating the forums for nearly a year before V6 appeared, the hype about V6 had died down and it didn't get the reaction it would have got if it was released during the hype, in my opinion. General Management announced in feedback in February/March time that Habbox and HabboxLive would be merged, if this had happened in May/June while HabboxLive averaged at 80-100 listeners it would have had a much better impact than now when HabboxLive averages at 30-50.

Similarly with the forum skin, other forums have far more advanced skins than Habbox who are stuck with the boring, extremely simple templates Jamesy created when we moved to vB4 in March 2011. If you look at the seasonal, temporary skins David has produced, Easter, Halloween they are the best skins this forum has ever seen (in my opinion the best skins a Habbo fansite has ever seen) and if this forum had a permanent skin of that quality the face-value of Habbox would be much better, if I ventured onto the fansite page as a Habbo new to fansites and saw HFFM forum and then this one HFFM looks much more professional, this looks outdated and old fashioned - quite like the situation with Habbox.com before V6.

You may think I am just being critical of new management - I'm not, these things are things I highlighted as issues when I was General Manager it's just a shame they haven't been approached as the sooner as they are the sooner Habbox could get back on the upper foot against other fansites, I actually think it may even be too late for HabboxLive now.

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Well if it's this one, David - I designed you a template for it in April

Template? Your mspaint skills were always, well, interesting to say the least!