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[Chippiewill]

As much as I'm glad you like my idea, it will never be implemented in a million years

Management barely want to do small changes like are being suggested here, so sadly a complete overhaul of how the staff departments work will never happen

I think an easier compromise would be to bring back the Content AGM, the content departments need better oversight. The only feedback I ever got back from General management when I was content manager was samanfa complaining about stuff. Frankly its not enough and upper management should not be solely reactionary.

In reality it's what everyone secretly wants anyway, everyone keeps going on about the departments working closer together but that's not going to happen unless someone takes responsibility for that.

[Kardan]

I think an easier compromise would be to bring back the Content AGM, the content departments need better oversight. The only feedback I ever got back from General management when I was content manager was samanfa complaining about stuff. Frankly its not enough and upper management should not be solely reactionary.

In reality it's what everyone secretly wants anyway, everyone keeps going on about the departments working closer together but that's not going to happen unless someone takes responsibility for that.

If people want the departments working closer together permanently, then something needs to be done.

Organising events that go across departments, e.g: Events/HxL won't do the job, because they might be working 'together', but each department will have their own objectives and stick to their side of the work.

No point saying 'Oh yeah, Content/Graphics/News worked on this project, when in reality, the Graphics department were stuck doing all the Graphics, Content team did all the content etc. and all the interaction they had was 'Here's the image, here's the news, here's the content'

Why doesn't Content have an AGM? Pretty much all the other departments do, don't they?

[Meanies]

If people want the departments working closer together permanently, then something needs to be done.

Organising events that go across departments, e.g: Events/HxL won't do the job, because they might be working 'together', but each department will have their own objectives and stick to their side of the work.

No point saying 'Oh yeah, Content/Graphics/News worked on this project, when in reality, the Graphics department were stuck doing all the Graphics, Content team did all the content etc. and all the interaction they had was 'Here's the image, here's the news, here's the content'

Why doesn't Content have an AGM? Pretty much all the other departments do, don't they?

There was the Content AGM role before but it got removed, can't remember the reason why though

[AgnesIO]

To be honest I think it's pretty simple. Stop with the events that today Habbos just DO NOT play, you look at the games being played at the moment you will see. Host a site wide recruitment fair on Habbo alas getting the community involved and as a result build up the ever lacking international side that habbox has. At this point in time we are effectively pushing 2/3s of Habbo away because we simply don't acknowledge any other timezone as well as other fan sites. Personally on a HxL front we need to push community and stop DJs streaming and I'm purposely staying up half the night to tune in and get people to stop doing that. It's a matter of a push from the top down and it won't happen if little changes come here and there we need just radical changes to sort it out.

Why don't you just record the shows lol Your are doing a volunteer role, whilst the enthusiasm is good I seriously suggest you don't go out of your way to fulfil it.

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Get events organisers who have furni (and if they don't, send them to a certain forum :rolleyes: Then they can make good events, lots of WIRED involved etc.

[Aaron]

To be honest I think it's pretty simple. Stop with the events that today Habbos just DO NOT play, you look at the games being played at the moment you will see. Host a site wide recruitment fair on Habbo alas getting the community involved and as a result build up the ever lacking international side that habbox has. At this point in time we are effectively pushing 2/3s of Habbo away because we simply don't acknowledge any other timezone as well as other fan sites. Personally on a HxL front we need to push community and stop DJs streaming and I'm purposely staying up half the night to tune in and get people to stop doing that. It's a matter of a push from the top down and it won't happen if little changes come here and there we need just radical changes to sort it out.

Agree with what you're saying. Habbox does need to focus more on the international side of Habbox, I do know we've got international managers that's great. What this site needs is maybe an international manager in general management, as all three are UK players. Even a international community manager could work, but I dunno how General Management would take that..

You shouldn't have to stay up through late nights having to listen to your DJ's, international DJ's should be attracting in the international players while they play through the UK nights. (Not sure how useful of a reply this is, I rarely do feedback).

Habbox need something like: General Manager > Assistant General Manager (Community) - International and European > not necessarily needed for the staff agm, but community more then ever. Would love to help/see Habbox spread out to the international players.

[Empired]

I think I'm gonna start with events because I think they have the most potential:

HFFM:

Looking at their calender, they basically never have more than two of the same event in one day (not including trivia/quizzes, but trivia can be played in lots of different ways). I also notice that there are a number of events on there that look exciting and a couple that I haven't heard of before.

They have three or four slots left empty for today, which is to be expected. I don't think anyone expects fansites to host events 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Now let's look at Habbox's calendar:


We have ten empty slots today.. Ten hours out of twenty four are unbooked. Literally nothing looks interesting on here. I would not (and do not) want to go to a single one of these events.

Actually can we just ban Falling Furni, Fridge Races/Don't Get a Carrot and Don't Roll a *insert number here*? These kinds of events are like the event version of streaming if you're a DJ. They are dull, unattractive and not particularly exciting. For example, I counted eleven different games of Falling Furni over six days. Stop this madness, please.

HFFM has 61 events staff altogether. We have 22. I think part of the problem here is just that we don't have enough staff. Perhaps, instead of promoting to get more people to come to events, get more people to try and apply to events. Even if we doubled the number of events organisers, we wouldn't even be halfway to what HFFM has. Plus, more staff would mean more people to populate rooms for us which would make it a win-win situation.

I think perhaps we could try some really exciting weekly events as well. Or at least make our current weekly events sound more exciting. I'm looking on habbox.com and we have four. Four... And I have never even heard of three of them. Honestly, Events Dept, it's almost as if you don't want people to play the games you set up for us? And then you complain when two people turn up?

Oh that's another rant: I notice all some staff do is sitting in their room going "NO ONE IS COMING SO I MAY AS WELL JUST LEAVE NOW". If no one is at your event, there is probably a reason for this. Did it ever occur to you to try and advertise or something? This isn't aimed at every events staff. I notice some come into HxHD five minutes before their event and make sure everyone knows about it, which is great. But sitting there saying "well I told the DJ but they're not advertising.." is not an argument.

I feel like I should tag the events manager. @Bolt660; @Smurfed-; (are they your names)

May as well tag the seniors as well. Don't even know what you do but: @Dilusionate; @.Cymru.;

One more thing: add international events staff please.

jesus christ my hands have worn down to stumps

[Mr-Trainor]

In regards to banning events mentioned above; Don't roll a X and Don't get a X are definitely boring. You have to wait ages for the dice/fridge to be given to you, and then it's just luck - during the time waiting it's so easy to just get bored and then leave, so I do agree that ones like that, despite being easy to build and run, should be disallowed or at least be discouraged.

[Jurv]

i don't really care for much in this thread but if it's unique/original events that are needed maybe it'd be an idea for management or seniors to set up a few rooms for staff to use. i remember me and mathew putting the idea to use when we were management but they were more for normal events like fallin' furni or whatever which is what you wanna try and stay away from as much as possible. i can't remember what we called the rooms but they did get used quite a bit, especially for people who only had enough furniture for prizes and still enjoyed hosting. obviously you'd have to decide what sort of events you'd be able to get away with, i'm not too sure how habbo works atm so i'm not sure if you'd be able to use wired but that's something you'd have to go through and decide before you think about making rooms

[FlyingJesus]

Was wondering why event rooms looked so cheap atm, apparently it's a "retro week" thing so looked that up and found

This year to celebrate Habbox and HabboxForum's Birthday, the Events Team have decided to take you into the TARDIS and travel back in time to the pre-beta days where you can re-experience both Habbo and Habbox during that time.

From the 24th - 30th June Habbox Events will be hosting games the way they used to be hosted back in the good ol' days. All events rooms will be themed using old school furniture and no wired will be used. Instead we'll be making use of one way gates and room reloading! As a result of this, our fixed weekly events such as 'Beat my Garden' will not be going ahead this week! How on earth will we cope without wired?

Which is a lovely idea but there's one small snag - absolutely nothing about these events are retro. One-way gates are relatively new and the rest of the furni in most of the rooms I've seen so far isn't anything that I'd consider retro, especially when we're talking about a decade of difference to Habbox.

It's not just events that are lacking though in terms of anniversary celebrations; there are 6 competitions running with vague relevance, the default skin has gone to classic (which doesn't affect anyone who manually chooses their skin ie: everyone), there are a handful of non-discussive threads open, and that's it as far as I can see. There is NOTHING on the main site about it, not even the shortest article or tagline mentioning it, and HxL is just HxL. Habbox has been around for 10 years and to say that the effort being put in to "celebrate" it is minimal would be more praise than necessary to be honest. This is a huge milestone and despite there being a number of dedicated staff around the place it seems that management as a whole is is just totally lacking - this is something that any well run fansite that claims to still be the best should be making a massive spectacle of with at least HxSS-esque work being put in and yet the biggest news of the week is that Justin Bieber drove away from paparazzi and Kardan doesn't want to get baptised. I've been unjustly accused in this thread of simply complaining where I've actually been giving suggestions, but you can now feel free to tell me that I'm moaning because now I am; this is an unjustifiably crap effort

[MKR&*42]

Was wondering why event rooms looked so cheap atm, apparently it's a "retro week" thing so looked that up and found

Which is a lovely idea but there's one small snag - absolutely nothing about these events are retro. One-way gates are relatively new and the rest of the furni in most of the rooms I've seen so far isn't anything that I'd consider retro, especially when we're talking about a decade of difference to Habbox.

They were classing anything as pre-beta as "retro". I think One Way Gates are more practical than forcing users to reload a room, and is certainly much easier for getting in/out VIP. But I do understand where you're coming from hence why I tried to make most of my room remotely classic (the skyscrapers and one way gates are the most recent things in there, but everything else is pre 2007 iirc?).

Also, I think some rooms are nice but most aren't massively different to normal rooms anyway? Forest walls and lodge corners are kinda common in events rooms anyway so there's no massive difference.
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I do kinda agree that the whole 10 years doesn't seem to have any kind of massive celebration. It just doesn't feel as enthusiastic as I would have expected that's all