Habbox.com Idea

[Mathew]

I agree with the gossipy, more personal touch to news. Previously (and I daresay right now) it is simply a combined version of the Habbo articles, and BBC news.

I can only speak for myself here, but I would rather get my news concerning both Habbo and the real world from the main site, where I know none of the info has been misinterpreted. Therefore, let us hear what the News Reporters think of it (Jeremy Clarkson's column in the Sunday Times is highly controversial due to his nature, which makes him a success) and make it something different; not just a copy! You've seen in the "ludus alerts" thread that "noobs" love all this gossipy, personal and sometimes silly chat - so go for it.

If this happens, it would deem News "less-pointless" too..
Good luck.

[Black_Apalachi]

This isn't a good idea cos you're not well known ol: xoxoxox

Makes sense tbh, although I reckon the Rare Values would be a good thing to have on the homepage instead. They are what make Habbox after all. Even though it breaks my heart, I think the day of Habbo news on fansites has passed for the reasons you mentioned.

I remember years ago, Habbox was the first thing I'd look at when I came to my PC because there would always be something interesting that I didn't know about. Back then, there were lots of aspects of Habbo that seemed really secretive or mysterious but now, there's not much to learn about Habbo that isn't already thrown in your face on the client and everyone knows all the staff etc.

At the end of the day though, I haven't been on the Habbox site for months now, so it should really be up to the people who use it most. Therefore I think a poll should be displayed somewhere on the homepage for a month or so before any changes are made. If it turned out that most people do like seeing the news as soon as they visit, changing this would only upset them.

[Blob]

Makes sense tbh, although I reckon the Rare Values would be a good thing to have on the homepage instead. They are what make Habbox after all. Even though it breaks my heart, I think the day of Habbo news on fansites has passed for the reasons you mentioned.

Good idea, maybe in the new version of Habbox it will be implemented, or maybe you could choose what is on your homepage.

[Inseriousity.]

I'm sure Drakee would be more well known if he didn't change his username every 5 minutes (yes, I'm joking)

I'm all for more competitions advertising but I wouldn't want to push out another department because of that... oh who am I kidding? when can we start?

I don't think it would make much different news being personal or not, the main source of news is the client then it's the forum to discuss it tbh. No offence to the news department though, who all do such a lovely job.

[Meanies]

To those saying about rare values on the homepage, they kind of are. The rare values search widget is more efficient than having an entire list of rares show up when you load the site. At least with the news articles they load pretty quick, whereas the rares page takes an age sometimes

[Yonder]

Well the new layout will bring a lot of change with the way articles and modules are laid out.

[Blinger1]

When we get around to creating the new layout for the site, they will be drawn from the forum calendar and displayed a few hours before it's due to happen.

cba to read the whole thread, but wouldn't it be more prudent to display them a day or so in advance?

[The Professor]

Why are we having a new layout anyway? its changed every 3 minutes and never really gets any better, everything just gets moved around a bit. Are we gonna have cool stuff like chooseable/moveable modules like igoogle? that would be awesome

[Blob]

Why are we having a new layout anyway? its changed every 3 minutes and never really gets any better, everything just gets moved around a bit. Are we gonna have cool stuff like chooseable/moveable modules like igoogle? that would be awesome

Wait and see

[Immenseman]

they will never lose their 'traditional' colours which always makes it a vile orange