HabboxWiki - Rare Values

[Samantha]

I think it's a nice addition for the project, I guess. If traffic is any indicator, though, it isn't a project that many people use. That isn't the fault of anyone working on the project but rather the concept itself. Take HabboRator which is also an archive of Habbo information and history. You can tell mounds of work were put in to that and you are lucky if anyone besides a few could even tell you what the site is for.

The wiki has a noble, valuable purpose nevertheless — to archive information about Habbo. I can guarantee you that if something like this is around when I am thirty-five (here's hoping it is) it will give me great feelings of nostalgia and pleasure. This kind of stuff should be saved, kept, archived, written about and detailed. Habbo has had a pretty dynamic environment over the years and it's nice to see aspects of it on a static page different from HabboRator in the sense that the minimalistic approach and the wiki environment make things better.

On topic, though, it isn't totally wise to use Habbox rare values or the same on HxW if you are a new user. That is a great portion of who use rare values and it isn't unfair to say that. The marketplace should always be given a check first because it updates much more instantly at the change of a price for some unforseen reason - it will always beat the Rare Values Team in speed. It still has its place, however, because rapid changes in price are not so common now that Habbo has mostly moved away from the exciting aura surrounding rare and super rare releases that we had in years past. Still, if someone starts buying up thrones quickly and the value was to change to a noted degree the marketplace will always reflect the change far before Habbox will.

I do agree wtih you that the team can't beat the Marketplace but I've noticed the Marketplace only updates once a day and that is when a new day begins due to the average going off the previous trades in tha last 24 hours and the last 7 days. In all honesty, it would be great if the team could update in a rapid amount of time and we were working on this so that it wasn't just me and Pigperson whom could update the prices on the site (as the Head Rare Values Reporters ask for item prices to be approved/denied) and if this is allowed in the future then we could update in a quicker time thus improving slightly. However, I really do agree that we aren't the fastest nor can we be, I think it's a nice feature to have all the same.

I also found that with Habbox.com sometimes lagging or not working for me, the Wiki helps if I need a price for a rare on the site!

[Chippiewill]

I think it's a nice addition for the project, I guess. If traffic is any indicator

[More people use HabboxWiki than the habboxlive website directly old data. We also have the lowest bounce rate of all the websites and a higher rate of returning users of all except for HabboxForum.

I also found that with Habbox.com sometimes lagging or not working for me, the Wiki helps if I need a price for a rare on the site!

Mediawiki's caching is a godsend.

[iLogan]

More people use HabboxWiki than the habboxlive website directly. We also have the lowest bounce rate of all the websites and a higher rate of returning users of all except for HabboxForum.

Where are you getting those stats from?

7th May - 13th May:

HabboxLive Unique Visitors: 7,132
HabboxWiki Unique Visitors: 1,472
HabboxLive Visits: 11.902
HabboxWiki Visits: 1,800

[Chippiewill]

Where are you getting those stats from?

7th May - 13th May:

Using some old ones because I didn't have the recent timescale

[Chippiewill]

Just a quick opinion question, currently rares with no value (Even non-existent rares) show up in the footer box anyway, I can disable this functionality fairly easily, what are people's opinions on this?

[GoldenMerc]

Just a quick opinion question, currently rares with no value (Even non-existent rares) show up in the footer box anyway, I can disable this functionality fairly easily, what are people's opinions on this?

surely they can't be rares if they have no value? never the less prob shouldn't be there

[Chippiewill]

surely they can't be rares if they have no value? never the less prob shouldn't be there

If they don't have a reported value or they're unreleased they're a rare with no value.

[Samantha]

surely they can't be rares if they have no value? never the less prob shouldn't be there

There can be rares with no value, what's to say that they are on the hotel but no trades have been witnessed, surely they are still rares? If they haven't been released at all on the hotel then I somewhat agree with you but then again, they can be exclusive rares situated to staff owned rooms which sometimes do get out somehow by the looks of it for some rares.

Removing them from the footer could be a good idea, but then again sometimes their pages give some information. In two minds about that, what if you didn't have the non-existant ones in the footer but had a link to their appropriate page as I'm sure they will have one. Items such as the Graphite Pillar should have its own Wiki page therefore you could link to that if a user wanted the history, or would that come up with related items?

[Chippiewill]

Removing them from the footer could be a good idea, but then again sometimes their pages give some information. In two minds about that, what if you didn't have the non-existant ones in the footer but had a link to their appropriate page as I'm sure they will have one. Items such as the Graphite Pillar should have its own Wiki page therefore you could link to that if a user wanted the history, or would that come up with related items?

So what you're saying is that rares with no values link to their HxW page? I can't say that makes much sense from a user expectation standpoint, they expect all links in the footer box to link to habbox.com, there should be an inline link if they want to see the rare's page.

[Samantha]

So what you're saying is that rares with no values link to their HxW page? I can't say that makes much sense from a user expectation standpoint, they expect all links in the footer box to link to habbox.com, there should be an inline link if they want to see the rare's page.

Ah right ok, I'm new to this Wiki stuff so I'm not sure how it all works. Thanks for quick reply .