What makes Habbox.com part of Habbox?

[Judas]

Haha, thanks for the feedback its much appreciated

[xxMATTGxx]

Staff List (MattG)

I can only see four dept. managers, one of them being me in my particularly handsome clothes! Hoorah! However, it's not all great. I am not wearing those clothes on Habbo currently! It might take a while to update or something, I don't know. I think also for each AGM should explain some of their past. They've all been a dept. manager in at least one department.

I can see all current department managers on the page. I'm not quite sure why the images aren't updating to the ones that match Habbo really as most of them use the same script to grab them.



That's the image that is directly from Habbo and it's the same clothes that match the Habbox.com page. I'm guessing your look doesn't look like that at all?

[Josh]

he was dressed as an army dude last time I saw him... hmm weird

[Alkaz]

I think everything which needs to be said has been said.

As Calvin said, the home above the navigator is so you can just click back home. It serves the same purpose as the links above your post (Forum - Help / Questions / Feedback - Habbox Feedback). As for the news categories etc there isn't any way that we can give you any viewing figures or anything like that. Admin CP doesn't allow us to see that information. All we have to go on is what everyone else can see; the amount of articles, amount of comments etc. As for the Habbox of news I agree it really is pointless. You mentioned about Sierk and Xarea, there is a feature somewhere that will allow us to change it but as the only person with any real experience with Joomla is Yonder, it's something we have been unable to change. A while ago Martin was talking about doing like a 'newsletter' type section for Habbox in general. If that is planned and does go ahead then I see no problem in actually removing the Habbox cat in favour for this.

The small rotator above Habbox Today would have been viewed a lot more when the site in general was more popular. A lot of people believe it or not did used to read Habbox Today and they would see the mini rotator. The intention of that was to only ever had a couple of items rotating on it though. At the moment there isn't anything we can actually do with it but the rotators in general will hopefully be dramatically improved with the plan for them with v6.

Again as Matt said, the staff list is a script. Matt and subsequently Garion used to have to update the Staff List and it simply took too long to do it every single day. I'm not totally sure why it does take so long for the normal staff list to load because other sites have similar features and load almost instantly. Again as well, referring to what others have said I'm not quite sure what you're referring to about not liking to view the page. Those who don't have a Habbo name linked to their account have a silhouette which I think looks a lot better than it used to as well.

The staff list shows everyone for me as well.

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[Alex3213]

Thanks Joe and Charlie, I'll reply later.

Part B

Win! Win! Win!

Events Calendar

Lots of code on the main site, looks disgusting. This part should really be pushed out a bit more, I don't go to many events anymore because there are so many bloody announcments and there's no other notification of them. As for the monthly calendar, it has hyperlinks on events. Probably to do with some Events Panel or something but it doesn't look nice etc. and has no "GMT" or "EST" or "AEST", whatever. Again, it's this thing that we are a merged hotel now.

Competitions

I'll be the first to put my hands up and say that it's not looked after properly, and I will take some of the blame for this. It's not a hard job but it's so flipping time consuming and I forget. It looks dreadfully empty when there's only 1 competition too. Shame that there weren't many departmental competitions, especially for Habboween.

Donations

Eugh? Read the text? Do I have to say anything else?

The Habbox Lottery

Bit of formatting screwed up and, whilst on the subject, it needs to be a must tbh. It's a good way to fund credits for Habbox but can't be done if you don't work hard for it! Also says site's been open for 6 and forum for 5. Is this correct?

Guides

I'm glad there's not a drop down box from the Guides section, it looks much nicer like this. I'm not going to go through them as I think most of them are up to date but y'know, there's always room for improvement. Remember, wired has came out and it would be nice to get a guide on that ASAP.

Other Stuff

I'm not gonna do RV as I think we don't need another discussion, however fun stuff is a must. I'm sure you can bring something unique into it and it'll attract people, I use Habbo Generators off another fansite I'm afraid as there are more of them. I'll do Fun Stuff later today as there's a lot which can be done to it.

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Job Openings, Habbox, Welcome, Habbox Group, Graphics Comp, Sports are the ones I see on it. Graphics comp has ended, welcome is nice to show it's not just UK now but the merge was a few months ago, you've already got the "Habbox" one. Habbox Group, Job Openings and Sports are OK I guess. Other things could be introduced though- the Competitions banner got removed prior to the merge (dunno how that worked but kk) and there was no banner for Halloween! Needs to be organised a bit better I think.

Statistics

A statistics page would be nice and could be shown in this newsletter that Joe said Martin was planning? I don't really like the stats at the bottom.

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[Chippiewill]

I hate to be nit-pickity but Jin, Yoshi and Matt aren't "(Assistant) Department Managers"..

[Calvin]

I hate to be nit-pickity but Jin, Yoshi and Matt aren't "(Assistant) Department Managers"..

It's taken from the HabboxForum showgroups so if they're in the Department Manager usergroup then it shows them in that section.

[HotelUser]

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Thanks Joe and Charlie, I'll reply later.

Part B

Win! Win! Win!

Events Calendar

Lots of code on the main site, looks disgusting. This part should really be pushed out a bit more, I don't go to many events anymore because there are so many bloody announcments and there's no other notification of them. As for the monthly calendar, it has hyperlinks on events. Probably to do with some Events Panel or something but it doesn't look nice etc. and has no "GMT" or "EST" or "AEST", whatever. Again, it's this thing that we are a merged hotel now.

Competitions

I'll be the first to put my hands up and say that it's not looked after properly, and I will take some of the blame for this. It's not a hard job but it's so flipping time consuming and I forget. It looks dreadfully empty when there's only 1 competition too. Shame that there weren't many departmental competitions, especially for Habboween.

Donations

Eugh? Read the text? Do I have to say anything else?

The Habbox Lottery

Bit of formatting screwed up and, whilst on the subject, it needs to be a must tbh. It's a good way to fund credits for Habbox but can't be done if you don't work hard for it! Also says site's been open for 6 and forum for 5. Is this correct?

Guides

I'm glad there's not a drop down box from the Guides section, it looks much nicer like this. I'm not going to go through them as I think most of them are up to date but y'know, there's always room for improvement. Remember, wired has came out and it would be nice to get a guide on that ASAP.

Other Stuff

I'm not gonna do RV as I think we don't need another discussion, however fun stuff is a must. I'm sure you can bring something unique into it and it'll attract people, I use Habbo Generators off another fansite I'm afraid as there are more of them. I'll do Fun Stuff later today as there's a lot which can be done to it.

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Job Openings, Habbox, Welcome, Habbox Group, Graphics Comp, Sports are the ones I see on it. Graphics comp has ended, welcome is nice to show it's not just UK now but the merge was a few months ago, you've already got the "Habbox" one. Habbox Group, Job Openings and Sports are OK I guess. Other things could be introduced though- the Competitions banner got removed prior to the merge (dunno how that worked but kk) and there was no banner for Halloween! Needs to be organised a bit better I think.

Statistics

A statistics page would be nice and could be shown in this newsletter that Joe said Martin was planning? I don't really like the stats at the bottom.

Ta!

Good grief you're right about that Events Calendar for the monthly view. It's only intended to be a temporary measure--again--until the revision of the site is released. Although I'm not sure why we can't make it look nicer in the meantime. I'll remove those hyperlinks now.

[Alkaz]

I agree that the events calendar does look ugly. Originally like everything else it was going to be updated manually but was changed in favour of an automated script. I have been unaware that it actually looked like that, I can assure you it didn't look like that when the change was first made. With v6 we're planning for users to be able to set their own reminders for events which will either give them a pop-up notification on the site or (I think) send them an e-mail. Again, at the moment this isn't something we can set up but is something we are already working on to improve for the future.

I can't really say much about the competitions page as it should be being updated . As for the donations page I've changed that and there is a short little paragraph about the page telling people who and how to contact Roxy about making a donation to Habbox. Hopefully that looks and reads a lot better now. As for the Habbox Lottery page, the site has now been open around 7 years so I will change that. As for the forum, I'm not totally sure when Sierk took full control of the forum but that to is around 5 or 6 years ago.

Guides have been left to deteriorate. We've been working on making the information more striped back and concise. We've also been working on the presentation of the guides which is something I am sure Calvin will continue with. By the time v6 comes around to be released, you won’t recognise the section!

Again as you've mentioned about Rv, that is another discussion. We know that RV's are not as an important part of the site compared to a year or so ago. We have ideas about this and again, what we have planned can't be done now so will be released with v6. I'm sure there will be a lot of things people will enjoy there.

As for the banners that is my fault. We removed a lot of the banners for the merge and unfortunately for one reason or another not all of them were added again. We also have to remember that people won't just sit there to view the rotator. It isn't random and the banners go in a an order on when they were added. We can't do anything about that and I'll be looking at the rotators later tonight to add and remove the necessary and unnecessary ones.

To finish with your last point about statistics, we can remove these. I will have to speak to Matt or Jin though about what we do actually remove from the bottom. They aren't really doing any harm anyway.

[Grig]

Thanks for that Alex. Yeh on the news front, we started making changes ever since the start of the year to boost what was a mess of a department back in January. Improvements are continuing as I witness. Good to see room reviews back on the planning, as I always wanted those to continue in my time and also you might consider dropping Gemma a PM and trying to do music reviews yourselves too, on the main Habbox site- this may include artist scoops, insights, all the latest gossip etc. It was always a wanting to do so, however things fell apart with us and HxL under the old management.

For categories, Martin and I fought for both sports and entertainment. Sports is a really generic thing, and either needs something unseen of. I never actually intended that category to be simply a report on your favourite football team, because if this is what it is used for now- close it. Simple as, you need insights into the sporting world and not be biased by reporting on a team you favour. It is one of the worst traits a reporter could have.

Featured News Stories

I added a heading for this as I feel it's important. If you go back to some older articles, I used to go out and do research for feature news stories, to break away from the usual spot news stuff. Faboosh did a few great featured stories on Lady GaGa when she was a reporter and I managed to research some on Habbo, by going beyond the website paraphrasing and looking at external links, email tip-offs (and yes I did email various staff and sometimes speak to Ludus on MSN- who was the hotel manager at the time). Stuff like that always got the most comments, and they were actually useful comments like opinions etc. not the smiley faces the bug the hell out of me nowadays.

Anyway, well done to the news team, you continue to keep up with excellent standards (when I do read Habbox news, as I haven't done so in months!) No other fansite is even close to beating Habbox at news.