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[AgnesIO]

Those people were working on something that had the potential to have far more success and benefits than an online forum gaining more members.

My point was, if you sit back and do nothing you will not succeed.

If you try, you at least stand a chance.

[Rachel]

This thread is still going and was there any changes? No. You can't expect old forum users to come back to a forum related about Habbo. It's not just Habbox who the activity is going low, other fansites too. How's that? Well to be honest it was like this since of them merge which I guarantee that it is why every fansite went a bit low in activity.

[FlyingJesus]

The issue isn't about getting new features to keep users around, it's getting new users to join.

This is actually the exact opposite of the truth and has been for years There has always been a decent flow of new users joining, just not actively becoming part of the community. Unfortunately people with less than 10 posts don't show up on the member list any more (no idea why) so I can't check how many people are joining and not taking part like I did before

In 2009 it was:

4 new members today so far, 12 yesterday. Of those 16 only 5 posted at all, three of whom only posted once and the most having 4 posts. Only 15 of this month's 233 new members have gone over 10 posts while 157 of them haven't posted a single thing.

That was posted on the 16th of the month so it's not completely comparable to this month's figures of 4 people going over 10 posts so far, but 10 did so in total last month so clearly there's still a massive issue with making those people who do sign up feel like they want to participate (would still be interesting to see the stats for how many are currently signing up per month, shame we can't do that through member list any more)

[beth]

i couldn't sleep and i ran out of blogs to read so popped on and decided to have a good read of the feedback and then i thought i'd find my password and have a good post.

the decline of habbox is not a new thing but that doesn't mean you attack everyone who decides to breach the subject. especially when they are new and you are staff, tremendous thinking.

i am shocked to see news/hxl/rare values still operating and also v6... hxl is fundamentally flawed now by the fact that times have changed, i used to use habbo radios in a time when if i wanted to hear a song it'd take an hour to download... nowadays teens can listen to what they want, when they want. radio isn't really a part of general society now either so they're not likely to look for radio to tune into. i would tune in to hear something of skill: e.g someone mixing or someone presenting new bands or talent (which really isn't that hard to find. 100s of bands would legally let you play their music in return for some publicity. they may even give you an interview.) I don't think hxl is 'with the times at all' and i genuinely think you'd get more listeners if you dropped habbo from the radio and made it more interactive and less generic.

news, again, have you ever thought of turning articles into blogs? I'm not talking about you sharing with habbox your day at college but perhaps actually discuss habbo rumours? habbo past. have a different post daily from a different staff member. keep it fresh. then if you perhaps had a none habbo thing (e.g tech) you could throw it in. for example discuss habboxlive and then do a review of headsets to use as DJs? it wouldn't be hard to search the internet for reviews to accumulate and at the end you could have a roundup of today in habbo. or simply have a feed linked to the news forum with threads to current news along with the blogs.


dunno bout rare values but I do know last year they seemed irrelevant and I expect that's hardly changed.
also with the forum, barely use it but it never seems to be truly hip and happening.

[edible]

habbox has one thing that no other fansite has and will never have (whilst habbox remains open) and that is the biggest habbo following. their habbo discussion forum is their most popular (i think, cba to check) places like habbcrazy / hffm / thishabbo have **** habbo sections on their forum and it's frustrating that habbox does nothing for their habbo users (i'm not counting tacky events). there are no big competitions where you can win a throne. i remember when i worked in hxhd, adzeh would sit in hxhd and give away a throne each week. i don't think i've seen habbox do anything like that for a good while. if they did all the current habbo users would be interested (who doesn't want a throne...) and it would undoubtedly attract new users.

i just dont think the admins/management care enough. you can see some of them in this thread so dismissive of new ideas.

[AgnesIO]

i couldn't sleep and i ran out of blogs to read so popped on and decided to have a good read of the feedback and then i thought i'd find my password and have a good post.

the decline of habbox is not a new thing but that doesn't mean you attack everyone who decides to breach the subject. especially when they are new and you are staff, tremendous thinking.

i am shocked to see news/hxl/rare values still operating and also v6... hxl is fundamentally flawed now by the fact that times have changed, i used to use habbo radios in a time when if i wanted to hear a song it'd take an hour to download... nowadays teens can listen to what they want, when they want. radio isn't really a part of general society now either so they're not likely to look for radio to tune into. i would tune in to hear something of skill: e.g someone mixing or someone presenting new bands or talent (which really isn't that hard to find. 100s of bands would legally let you play their music in return for some publicity. they may even give you an interview.) I don't think hxl is 'with the times at all' and i genuinely think you'd get more listeners if you dropped habbo from the radio and made it more interactive and less generic.

dunno bout rare values but I do know last year they seemed irrelevant and I expect that's hardly changed.
also with the forum, barely use it but it never seems to be truly hip and happening.

A very good point about HxL - Spotify is a clear example of this. Maybe they need more habbo speech segments, as opposed to music (which people can get so easily now it is untrue!)

habbox has one thing that no other fansite has and will never have (whilst habbox remains open) and that is the biggest habbo following. their habbo discussion forum is their most popular (i think, cba to check) places like habbcrazy / hffm / thishabbo have **** habbo sections on their forum and it's frustrating that habbox does nothing for their habbo users (i'm not counting tacky events). there are no big competitions where you can win a throne. i remember when i worked in hxhd, adzeh would sit in hxhd and give away a throne each week. i don't think i've seen habbox do anything like that for a good while. if they did all the current habbo users would be interested (who doesn't want a throne...) and it would undoubtedly attract new users.

i just dont think the admins/management care enough. you can see some of them in this thread so dismissive of new ideas.

Win a throne is great, if someone has it to give. I have part funded HxSS in the past, but there is no way someone would be willing to fund a casual win a throne competition, as the people who would enter are the "already here users" on the forum - and they simply are not the target market. More to the point, the vast majority of users who actually have thrones use black market trading websites. And Habbox fires anyone they know who does that.

HFFM has a popular on-habbo scene - and I would be shocked if that doesn't gain them users.

[edible]

A very good point about HxL - Spotify is a clear example of this. Maybe they need more habbo speech segments, as opposed to music (which people can get so easily now it is untrue!)



Win a throne is great, if someone has it to give. I have part funded HxSS in the past, but there is no way someone would be willing to fund a casual win a throne competition, as the people who would enter are the "already here users" on the forum - and they simply are not the target market. More to the point, the vast majority of users who actually have thrones use black market trading websites. And Habbox fires anyone they know who does that.

HFFM has a popular on-habbo scene - and I would be shocked if that doesn't gain them users.

yeah, but my point is if you check the habbo forums on habbox(habbo news and rumours) it's a very popular section. that means there is a demand for habbo. the habbo discussion on here is superior to any fansite with ease. that is habbox's strength and it is time they started playing to their strengths. for example, staff use habbox more than the other fansites, why don't they try to get exclusive interviews up. announce they have a big interview going live at 9pm, drum up some interest, it's just so dull on here and it really doesn't have to be. so many things they could do. that's just one.

[beth]

habbox has one thing that no other fansite has and will never have (whilst habbox remains open) and that is the biggest habbo following. their habbo discussion forum is their most popular (i think, cba to check) places like habbcrazy / hffm / thishabbo have **** habbo sections on their forum and it's frustrating that habbox does nothing for their habbo users (i'm not counting tacky events). there are no big competitions where you can win a throne. i remember when i worked in hxhd, adzeh would sit in hxhd and give away a throne each week. i don't think i've seen habbox do anything like that for a good while. if they did all the current habbo users would be interested (who doesn't want a throne...) and it would undoubtedly attract new users.

i just dont think the admins/management care enough. you can see some of them in this thread so dismissive of new ideas.

the news forum should definitely become a basis from which to build habbox news since it is so popular. maybe if newa reporters actually discussed the news with the community theyd be more inclined to stay.


also i think those kind of events are key to attracting and keeping new members but from what i remember last year no one has the funds and the donations that used to roll in just don't come anymore.
perhaps as (i think) kyle mentioned earlier habbox could look into buying from the black market? its not ideal but its certainly cheaper.

[sex]

Maybe the news reports could talk about actually getting new badges and guides how to get them (that ate posted before users do) rather than 200 words on a badge that literally no one wants to and is going to read. Has anyone seen the amounts of comments under the newly opened habbo secrets site where they explain how to get badges not post some boring long article about the band design??

It would defiantly bring way more people to the site, and if you say leave it to version 7 or try take and amount of time like always to start doing this there's no point because people will be accustomed to using other sites..

[AgnesIO]

Maybe the news reports could talk about actually getting new badges and guides how to get them (that ate posted before users do) rather than 200 words on a badge that literally no one wants to and is going to read. Has anyone seen the amounts of comments under the newly opened habbo secrets site where they explain how to get badges not post some boring long article about the band design??

It would defiantly bring way more people to the site, and if you say leave it to version 7 or try take and amount of time like always to start doing this there's no point because people will be accustomed to using other sites..

Only been posting around in feedback for a month, and already sick to death of "v7 this that and the other" :L Just an excuse to put things back in my eyes (then the excuse is "well we keep adding more cool features so it takes longer!").

Definitely though, not sure if they still do but at one point news reporters started doing the whole "My opinion on this is it is a nice design" - when in all honesty, I doubt many people could give two flying .... about the news reporter's (er volunteer) opinion.