Habbox International Side

[Lanyon]

Is it me or does the community have a lack of international DJ flavour for Habbox, it really seems like almost every DJ is from the UK on air, recently I've heard a couple of new Aussie's and Americans DJing but it would be awesome to hear more of the Aussies, Kiwis, Asians and possibly english-speaking Europeans, South Americans and Africans? At around 5am UK time, I find myself with no one in helpdesk, no events happening and awkwardly I would go to www.habboxlive.com and find that there isn't even a DJ on air, for myself, as an international Habbo player coming from Australia with little support from Australia and surrounding countries, it puts big pressure on myself to jump on the radio which makes me feel like a bit of a hero anyway. But countries like New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore and Philippines contain a large enough portion of the Habbo community. What I'm basically saying is that it is surprising to me that there Habbox struggles for international members (especially South-East Asian & Pacific areas)


At 5am you still see people at HFFM events and ThisHabbo always maintains its listeners. I feel as though this is because the site is kept active during these times. After looking at the DJing groups on other fansites, it is evident that Habbox is lacking International DJs to cover slots when the UK is asleep or unavailable.


Management below for ThisHabbo and HFFM:







If you haven't noticed at HabboxLive when there is little audience and no other DJs around and most importantly, NOBODY & NOT EVEN A MANAGER to get help from no one online when I am on DJing in the evening peak for Australia and surrounding countries of similar timezones. If we have problems in regards to management. I was listening the other day to a DJ which I’m pretty sure management would have kicked off air if they had been online because of what he was doing. (Thankfully they aren’t here anymore!) I’m not saying that every department at Habbox needs an international side of Aussies and Asians built up. But the community itself surely needs to be taken out of the ground and given a big kick-start to be running strongly with the UK. So recently, I've noticed a change in the international side of HabboxLive and I can see the strong efforts in hiring DJs from some of the members. Everyone knows that Habbox is a top contender amongst other fansites. The changes Jade has been implementing with her Head+ team and with general management clearly show and effort is being made to build on the international side of Habbox


The listeners are not to the standards that Habbox should be at, it's actually embarrassing to see less than 10 listeners sometimes and still events has no activity. Grig recently told me that events used to have an international EO and exclusive internationals and that was when they were doing well as far as I am aware. It is all well and good having good UK times but that does not really help us internationals does it? To actually get an international side you need international people MANAGING.


Maybe Habbox as an entire fansite needs to start pushing each other to improve these times and to actually gain a presence. That only comes from the top. My advice; get international managers. Focus on your community and do yourselves a favour before you turn into HabbCrazy. Oh wait even they have international radio managers now.


Let's make it back to number 1, that's the ultimate goal and to do that is to focus on International!


Thankyou
DJ Metal
Lanyon
Phil


P.S. was reading this thread: http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=781374


What happened to the recruitment drive? @xxMATTGxx @Inseriousity. @SyrupyMonkey

[lemons]

well the whole radio needs to be changed before recruiting more people it's so bad most of the dj's are like 10

[iMattster]

Phil, I agree.
But who could take on the responsibility of an International Radio Manager? Would they be in North America, Australia or Singapore, or where would they be? If they're in Australia, we have no contact with NA, but if they're in NA, they have no contact with Australia. For example, Perth (where I am in) Im awake from around 7am-11pm on a normal school day. Thats 7pm-11am EST in the US, only being active on HabboxLive at all between 4pm-11pm (4am-11am). Im sure you would be the same, as you live in the Eastern States being 2 hours ahead of Perth.

You are right. We have a team of Internationals, but who would lead? We would need someone based in Australia because they are closer to Asia and decent accessibility to North America. But I believe we're the only Australians, and we're both new.

---------- Post added 14-07-2013 at 10:24 PM ----------

well the whole radio needs to be changed before recruiting more people it's so bad most of the dj's are like 10

Then they should NOT BE DJING IF THEY ARE 10.
The minimum age to play Habbo Hotel is 13. They are breaking the rules.

[Samantha]

You can't get international managers if there is no one international in the department in the first place, you have to earn the role at Habbox and really that's near enough always been the place. I think you need to question why aren't there people in the Help Desk at 5am when we have 2 international managers running it - something that wasn't allowed years ago. Also, you also have one European international radio manager with Mark, although the difference isn't much there could still be more done, but you need to also remember the NA Head DJ post has only just been filled again after Zam left so I think time will be needed to adjust there. I see a fair amount of DJs going on air 1-2am which is also peak for AU and US players so, if someone isn't on at 5am (which isn't peak for US and AU may be having their tea, coming home from work or whatever).

The international side is picking up, and yeah other fansites have a bigger international side, but they work differently to Habbox in recruitment.

Also, I think a feedback thread is needed if you can see if it's a recurring thing - today on the timetable it looks like only 1 slot (8pm) isn't booked which is pretty good. I also see various international DJs on air - Sarah, LoganD, Markster, Grig (sorry if I missed you out I just know they're international I think).

It's getting there slowly, I do agree with you that some departments don't need an international workforce, I think departments such as Events, HabboxLive, Help Desk and News would mainly benefit with them. I felt inclined to say Forum too, but I know the moderators and smods are usually on late .

---------- Post added 14-07-2013 at 03:34 PM ----------

Phil, I agree.
But who could take on the responsibility of an International Radio Manager? Would they be in North America, Australia or Singapore, or where would they be? If they're in Australia, we have no contact with NA, but if they're in NA, they have no contact with Australia. For example, Perth (where I am in) Im awake from around 7am-11pm on a normal school day. Thats 7pm-11am EST in the US, only being active on HabboxLive at all between 4pm-11pm (4am-11am). Im sure you would be the same, as you live in the Eastern States being 2 hours ahead of Perth.

You are right. We have a team of Internationals, but who would lead? We would need someone based in Australia because they are closer to Asia and decent accessibility to North America. But I believe we're the only Australians, and we're both new.

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Then they should NOT BE DJING IF THEY ARE 10.
The minimum age to play Habbo Hotel is 13. They are breaking the rules.

There's no age restriction when being a DJ though, they may not even play Habbo really yet they just joined the forum, an unlikely story, but it can happen. I know one of the DJs (not sure if he resigned) has played Habbo since he was 6/7 and he became a DJ at about 10 I believe, same with older ones. It's not about age it's about quality; if they feel they could do the role of DJ then so they should, shouldn't they?

[e5]

I totally agree with you. I just don't know what sort of international players we get from the places you said around here, who will DJ

[Empired]

It's all very well saying we need more international staff, but if no international people apply for the jobs, how do you expect us to get international staff? All the BST people aren't living in England purely to spite Habbox... I think we've kind of got ourselves stuck in a rut. No international staff means no international people joining which means no international people are applying for jobs which means we have no international staff. And the cycle continues..

Along with so many other people, I think the radio really needs a total revamp. We need to find a group of people willing to spend their time trying to turn Habboxlive around. I don't think anyone can say "but we don't have any of these people at Habbox" because (in case you hadn't noticed) the current people are holding it together, but no more. I think we need a mixture of old and new people. (By "old" I don't mean 20 years old +, I mean people who have been here long enough to know how Habbox works.) Then we can hopefully find a nice balance between experience from the older staff and initiative from the new staff. Yeah ok, it would take a lot of effort but I reckon it could work. Like propaganda or something, I don't know.

I know there are plenty of people on this forum willing to give a helping hand. All management has to do is ask.. :rolleyes:

[Lanyon]

I know there are plenty of people on this forum willing to give a helping hand. All management has to do is ask.. :rolleyes:

This really tells me that something can be done. Yes, It can start with management by asking

[Samantha]

This really tells me that something can be done. Yes, It can start with management by asking

Some management do ask for help, whether it be in designing rooms or a favour some do. I know @Inseriousity.; asks a lot of the time and things do get done by asking. Even @xxMATTGxx; asks too .

[Grig]

It's all very well saying we need more international staff, but if no international people apply for the jobs, how do you expect us to get international staff? All the BST people aren't living in England purely to spite Habbox... I think we've kind of got ourselves stuck in a rut. No international staff means no international people joining which means no international people are applying for jobs which means we have no international staff. And the cycle continues..

You shouldn't sit there and wait for staff to come, but have initiative. By doing various campaigns like an OC Radio Week that I'm about to organize soon and that makes people aware of Habbox and gets more people in. Why, as an international would I come to Habbox when I see nothing being done about the international side, I'd just bugger off to HFFM and ThisHabbo because I see them caring about my timezone etc.

I do agree with this thread and I did bring this point up many times in the past, but there's been so little initiative to propel the international side. Habbox is still stuck in a 2008 mentality, we can't just sit back and expect stuff anymore .

[Empired]

You shouldn't sit there and wait for staff to come, but have initiative. By doing various campaigns like an OC Radio Week that I'm about to organize soon and that makes people aware of Habbox and gets more people in. Why, as an international would I come to Habbox when I see nothing being done about the international side, I'd just bugger off to HFFM and ThisHabbo because I see them caring about my timezone etc.

I do agree with this thread and I did bring this point up many times in the past, but there's been so little initiative to propel the international side. Habbox is still stuck in a 2008 mentality, we can't just sit back and expect stuff anymore .

I did say that later on in my post. I was trying to say there's no point in just saying we need more international staff!