HabboxLive Feedback

[Slopure]

I'm not quite sure how it's a moral problem but I don't think it makes sense that the only reason people aren't listening because the site isn't nice to look at. Radio DJs have always been able to attract crowds, gain fans, and spread their fanbase - it just seems like it's not happening as much. Sure if Habbox isn't as good content-wise then there are less people discovering the new service but you also have to look at why DJs aren't attracting or retaining fans.

Great! Woooo DJ's attract people to come tune in... now the question is how do you keep the person staying to tune in? What makes that person want to stay on the site once that DJ is done DJing? Now you can't blame DJs for the amount of listeners, we try to bring people in to tune into our shows. But we need the site to look amazing to keep the person wanting to come back over and over again. Habbox use to have the number one radio with such great quality... but now its not!

To sum that crappy paragraph together... DJ's need help from site owners to make / keep things fresh for our fans and people who are just tuning in. If you got a chart for listeners feed and looked at it, I bet you its mostly just staff tuning in.

[Drewar]

Although it would be nice to see a new design, I don't think it's absolutely necessary for the success of the radio. I think it will just take a lot of recruiting and getting the listeners to be excited about tuning in. Back in its prime, it used to be FUN to tune in because Habbo was super active, there was lots to see and do, and lots of fun conversational topics were discussed on air.

I believe that if you get excited about your show and genuinely enjoy your time on air and what you're doing, the listeners will pick up on that, and will be more likely to invite their friends

Also, as a bit of history, here's a screenshot of the HabboxRadio design looked like back in the day when we were reaching 300+ listeners every weekend. Just thought I'd add this to show that design doesn't mean everything. The design was very basic back then, but the on air radio content was top notch and super entertaining

Cheers!

[nvrspk4]

Great! Woooo DJ's attract people to come tune in... now the question is how do you keep the person staying to tune in? What makes that person want to stay on the site once that DJ is done DJing? Now you can't blame DJs for the amount of listeners, we try to bring people in to tune into our shows. But we need the site to look amazing to keep the person wanting to come back over and over again. Habbox use to have the number one radio with such great quality... but now its not!

To sum that crappy paragraph together... DJ's need help from site owners to make / keep things fresh for our fans and people who are just tuning in. If you got a chart for listeners feed and looked at it, I bet you its mostly just staff tuning in.

Well in the past the DJs would become friends with listeners by getting them into a room on Habbo and hanging out with them - often people would have the site open and would have their focus on Habbo, so they weren't even looking on Habbox. After all, as Drew references "the old days" when we used to get 300 listeners, there wasn't even a site to retain the users, HabboxLive (then HabboxRadio) was a separate site entirely and people went there literally to hear the DJs while they played about on Habbo.

I'm not saying that 300 users is a realistic estimate, I get that times have changed, but I haven't heard a reason why DJs can't work on the personal fanbase that they used to enjoy (maybe there is a reason - maybe people use Habbo differently and that's not realistic anymore - I dunno, but I haven't heard the reasons yet so it seems like a logical fix to me).

[Slopure]

Well in the past the DJs would become friends with listeners by getting them into a room on Habbo and hanging out with them - often people would have the site open and would have their focus on Habbo, so they weren't even looking on Habbox. After all, as Drew references "the old days" when we used to get 300 listeners, there wasn't even a site to retain the users, HabboxLive (then HabboxRadio) was a separate site entirely and people went there literally to hear the DJs while they played about on Habbo.

Hahaha yeh I remember those days! I've been with Habbox for ever now! But decided to make a forum account in 2010, I loved it soo much always wanted to be a DJ ... but was to scared But the radio use to be amazing and had fun. Personally, I think there should be two groups now Intl / Eu ... re-name them ... but get rid of Alpha / Delta / beta etc. Have 2 head DJ's for each group 3 senior djs, and 1 Manager for each. Is something would be nice, also Habbox gets many 'rookie' DJs so there should be a way to "train" the DJs to help guide them on how to make rooms etc. Cause I miss the old Habbox... and I hate all the damage previous Radio Managers have done to all Jess's ideas which has mostly been scraped!

[Rachel]

Hahaha yeh I remember those days! I've been with Habbox for ever now! But decided to make a forum account in 2010, I loved it soo much always wanted to be a DJ ... but was to scared But the radio use to be amazing and had fun. Personally, I think there should be two groups now Intl / Eu ... re-name them ... but get rid of Alpha / Delta / beta etc. Have 2 head DJ's for each group 3 senior djs, and 1 Manager for each. Is something would be nice, also Habbox gets many 'rookie' DJs so there should be a way to "train" the DJs to help guide them on how to make rooms etc. Cause I miss the old Habbox... and I hate all the damage previous Radio Managers have done to all Jess's ideas which has mostly been scraped!

I would never ever want to see them removing Alpha. It was specially made for Aussies/ New Zealand. I am their Head DJ and I am proud to be their leader even if the team is currently small at the moment. Other teams are doing fine as well.

[Empired]

Well in the past the DJs would become friends with listeners by getting them into a room on Habbo and hanging out with them - often people would have the site open and would have their focus on Habbo, so they weren't even looking on Habbox. After all, as Drew references "the old days" when we used to get 300 listeners, there wasn't even a site to retain the users, HabboxLive (then HabboxRadio) was a separate site entirely and people went there literally to hear the DJs while they played about on Habbo.

I'm not saying that 300 users is a realistic estimate, I get that times have changed, but I haven't heard a reason why DJs can't work on the personal fanbase that they used to enjoy (maybe there is a reason - maybe people use Habbo differently and that's not realistic anymore - I dunno, but I haven't heard the reasons yet so it seems like a logical fix to me).

I know a lot of DJs these days don't even come online during their slots. I was talking to @IzzyUhh; last night and she said a lot of them are only at Habbox for the DJing; they're not interested in getting involved with the community through Habbo or posting on the forum.
I think one of the reasons Gina did so well is because she has a large group of people who like her on Habbo/HxF so if she asks them to tune in for her, they will.

Who was it who was suggesting a DJ area in HxHD? I reckon that would be a pretty good idea. It would give DJs a somewhere to go in-client if they can't afford their own party room. Plus it would mean we don't have users split over three Habbox rooms: event, help desk & DJ room.

[Kyle]

People don't tune into hxl because of how the site looks whatsoever, we have two sites that play the radio and generally people don't sit and look at them, they play habbo and do other things. How do you think actual radios with no user interface work? It's ALL about DJ quality and charisma and NOTHING to do with the habbox(live) site. Look less at staff structure and more at properly vetting new djs - something that has IMO been neglected as of late. I don't tune in for furni, I don't tune in to dance to something in the help desk; I tune in for great djs with good quality microphones that know how to engage their audience. Richie and Gina could always make me laugh out loud with anecdotes and played songs that they knew people wanted to hear and that, I think, is the secret to their success in recent years compared to other DJs.

This has been said since what seems to be the dawn of time now, but we NEED more regular shows. The vault was PERFECT, bring it back. The weakest link, the Friday night call in show. Even going way back, there weren't DJs that simply took what they could get and begged for requests, there were people who actually planned their shows, knew what to play and more importantly what to say. If you want to expand your fanbase you need to find out what they want and work on it. GiveAways only go so far, too. It was jade's master plan a while ago and as you can see it really doesn't retain listeners. People tuning in because they're told to do so for a piece of furni aren't the ones that are going to stick aroud, the ones that tune in for a laugh and some good music that can identify with the djs are.

More (planned) double djing would be great too. I don't mean one person taking the floor ad the other waiting for a chance to introduce a song, I mean a proper conversation. Two big personalities, not one small and one giant one.

Be more experimental with music choice too. More people like Kpop or country music than you think. If they don't, it'll grow on them. You might lose a few listeners but over time you'll get a lot more because of your variety. If in doubt, just play it?


~~from phone

[Lewis]

People don't tune into hxl because of how the site looks whatsoever, we have two sites that play the radio and generally people don't sit and look at them, they play habbo and do other things. How do you think actual radios with no user interface work? It's ALL about DJ quality and charisma and NOTHING to do with the habbox(live) site. Look less at staff structure and more at properly vetting new djs - something that has IMO been neglected as of late. I don't tune in for furni, I don't tune in to dance to something in the help desk; I tune in for great djs with good quality microphones that know how to engage their audience. Richie and Gina could always make me laugh out loud with anecdotes and played songs that they knew people wanted to hear and that, I think, is the secret to their success in recent years compared to other DJs.

This has been said since what seems to be the dawn of time now, but we NEED more regular shows. The vault was PERFECT, bring it back. The weakest link, the Friday night call in show. Even going way back, there weren't DJs that simply took what they could get and begged for requests, there were people who actually planned their shows, knew what to play and more importantly what to say. If you want to expand your fanbase you need to find out what they want and work on it. GiveAways only go so far, too. It was jade's master plan a while ago and as you can see it really doesn't retain listeners. People tuning in because they're told to do so for a piece of furni aren't the ones that are going to stick aroud, the ones that tune in for a laugh and some good music that can identify with the djs are.

More (planned) double djing would be great too. I don't mean one person taking the floor ad the other waiting for a chance to introduce a song, I mean a proper conversation. Two big personalities, not one small and one giant one.

Be more experimental with music choice too. More people like Kpop or country music than you think. If they don't, it'll grow on them. You might lose a few listeners but over time you'll get a lot more because of your variety. If in doubt, just play it?


~~from phone

I second this

country music is all I listen to basically

[DJVeni98]

Well I do guess HabboxLive made a choice between Quantity OR Quality. I guess HabboxLive's mentality is to rather have more DJ's keeping the radio up then actually producing a really good show for the listeners. The real reason why HabboQuests has a wide listener base is because people go on HabboQuests to complete quests on Habbo and gain certain badges for their Habbo Account. Well great, i've gotten a badge now! So i'll stick around for the radio as well. That's why HabboQuests has a very wide listener base. What does Habbox have? Habbox has what every other fansite has as well. Originality beats the competition. I also do suggest that whoever does check Applications for HabboxLive should start really "Judging" the applicant more based on their skills as a DJ. As from my past at HabboxLive I did have to deal with people that didn't even know what they signed up for. Literally.

[Rachel]

Well I do guess HabboxLive made a choice between Quantity OR Quality. I guess HabboxLive's mentality is to rather have more DJ's keeping the radio up then actually producing a really good show for the listeners. The real reason why HabboQuests has a wide listener base is because people go on HabboQuests to complete quests on Habbo and gain certain badges for their Habbo Account. Well great, i've gotten a badge now! So i'll stick around for the radio as well. That's why HabboQuests has a very wide listener base. What does Habbox have? Habbox has what every other fansite has as well. Originality beats the competition. I also do suggest that whoever does check Applications for HabboxLive should start really "Judging" the applicant more based on their skills as a DJ. As from my past at HabboxLive I did have to deal with people that didn't even know what they signed up for. Literally.

Yeah that is good for Habboquest but that doesn't mean they are listening either. They probably have to be tuned in when they are on habboquest. I am not saying they are a bad fansite either I am just saying.