Forum Suggestion

[FlyingJesus]

I see. Can anyone actually see an advantage to a shoutbox, cause I'm struggling.

Nope. So far the only positive I've seen is "WELL IT MIGHT NOT KILL FORUM ACTIVITY" which is hardly the greatest reason to implement a tool which can take away the need or desire to use the forum itself.

I think if we introduce a shoutbox for a few days a week it will get people talking a bit more in that and people who no doubt wouldn't normally talk to each other, talking to each other in it

If you want to build the community then don't give it something which can only create conservations that are entirely exclusive to those online at one single time period. A conversation that goes on in a thread can be accessed and added to by anyone at any time, and that is how new people become integrated into a community, not by giving them a small chance to be part of a chat which might not even happen and won't be recalled by anyone not present anyway.

I think the best staff bonding isn't when there's a game of OMGpop (although these are good too) but when there's a bit of banter and conversation in the spam threads. Don't see how a similar principle to that can't be extended to the wholeforum

That principle is extended to the whole forum - it's called spam. As I've written above, a chatbox in which users have to be on at a very specific moment to use cannot possibly hope to contain any meaningful intercourse (lol intercourse) for the community as a whole.

I was hesitant to give into this idea on the basis that throughout Habbox history it has been rejected. However if the chat box is only available for X amount of days a week I don't think it will put a strain too much on posting on the forum.

...And then why would users bother with a feature that they can't access all the time? I know I for one would be less than happy to find that partway through an interesting conversation I was cut off because it was no longer deemed an appropriate time for me to be talking - at which point it would probably move to a spam thread, which would then be permanent inclusive for all members, and suddenly I'd wonder why I didn't just go there in the first place, since it's a much better setting for conversation to grow in.

[FlyingJesus]

Bump because management apparently never read that there are several good reasons not to have this implemented and only "WHY NOT??!?!?!!!?" as a reason for it

[Kasabian]

This thread - TL;DR

Don't see the need for a shoutbox? People moan that hardly anyone posts anymore, so we install a shoutbox - which will decrease the amount of posts we get.

It also refreshes every so often instead of being real time, which is annoying. There's also the fact we have around 20/30 members on at a time(average), so any conversation you attempt to have on the shoutbox isburiedwith all other chats.

Oh, and can we disable text formatting in the shoutbox? People will type like thisHaBbOxShOuTbOxand that's ******* annoying. You've also allowed image embedding and other stuff, fun!

I've hidden the chatbox, but is there a way to disable the 'subforum' header, so to speak?

[Zuth]

I think its only on for a few days a week.

[Empired]

I think its only on for a few days a week.

To be honest, those few days are going to be hell. -Disables-

[beth]

IVE BEEN BANNED FOR TYPOING.

[Jurv]

WHY CAN'T I SEE IT ANYMORE? THIS IS AN OUTRAGE.

[beth]

did you post a picture? apparently it's okay to spam it but images even though the coding allowed is death worthy

[buttons]

it sucks

[Stephen]

i think this was only meant to be a test sort of thing it werent like BAM IMPLEMENTED FOREVER

and now we know that it's a fail so it's cool

also now we can rage at anyone who suggests a chatbox in future