Things that could be updated

[xxMATTGxx]

That's a poor excuse. People work on Wiki based sites without pay and manage to keep pages up to date, and even creating layouts. If you need to be paid to do a decent job voluntarily you should probably reconsider your position :/


I would think anyone visiting the site would want up to date information to be honest Even if V7 is days away, pages should be kept up to date until the day of transition to the new website. That's usually what happens, but Habbox does it's best to be different.

I think you are getting confused, I said that in regards of V7. I am talking about the development of V7, nothing to do with the content of V6 which isn't what Graham was talking about. I didn't actually post a reason for why the content on the current site wasn't updated.

[Martin]

@Bolt660; or @martin; idek.

Department pages are still on V7. The wiki hasn't swallowed up everything and I hope it won't

Then the massive rant over v7 continues....

Then surely it would have been far easier to update these more frequently so that its much easier when it does come to the transition? Most of them are out of date, leading people to believe different people are managers of departments

"The acting Graphics Manager (xxMattGxx) tries his hardest to make sure that the graphics are created to the exact specification and ensures that the department is ran in a unique, laid back fashion."

for example



I think to an extent (people will probably kill me for saying this) the main site is more important than the wiki and so should be up to date first as habbox's main site. It really does baffle me why its been left so long Same with some of the community related things such as the question widget on habbox.com, the official rooms thing etc, I just think more could be being done to keep things fresh and interesting and ensuring that up to date information is provided.

[GoldenMerc]

I agree, main site is far more priority than Wiki, not only more hits, it carries HxL and connects all sites together.
Personally, I'd make Habbox just a vBulletin, with all the new stuff they are adding (as much as I hate it) i bet you could whip a nice layout to it, Make it as much functionality as possible really

[MKR&*42]

Then surely it would have been far easier to update these more frequently so that its much easier when it does come to the transition? Most of them are out of date, leading people to believe different people are managers of departments

for example



I think to an extent (people will probably kill me for saying this) the main site is more important than the wiki and so should be up to date first as habbox's main site. It really does baffle me why its been left so long Same with some of the community related things such as the question widget on habbox.com, the official rooms thing etc, I just think more could be being done to keep things fresh and interesting and ensuring that up to date information is provided.

The main site IS far more important that the wiki. I don't know how much fellow content designers would agree with me.

I don't even think we're allowed to request to update a Habbox V6 page at the moment aha. The focus was shoved on v7 and it is rather annoying looking around the site and seeing how much needs updated. The content designers were told very very quickly to 'hurry up' at one point (with v7)... so god knows why if it's still not out.

[Martin]

The main site IS far more important that the wiki. I don't know how much fellow content designers would agree with me.

I don't even think we're allowed to request to update a Habbox V6 page at the moment aha. The focus was shoved on v7 and it is rather annoying looking around the site and seeing how much needs updated. The content designers were told very very quickly to 'hurry up' at one point (with v7)... so god knows why if it's still not out.

I don't know, I've just seen so much emphasis on the wiki lately that its kind of made it seem like its being prioritised more than habbox.com content which isnt so good. Things should never have been allowed to get so out of date regardless of whether v7 was being worked on, it just looks really really bad.

[Lee]

@xxMATTGxx; how far in terms of progress would you say V7 is out of interest? 10%... 50%... More?

[MKR&*42]

I don't know, I've just seen so much emphasis on the wiki lately that its kind of made it seem like its being prioritised more than habbox.com content which isnt so good. Things should never have been allowed to get so out of date regardless of whether v7 was being worked on, it just looks really really bad.

It does

I just checked and we don't have the ability (the thread) to request perms for v6 pages (it's been gone for ages but double check ok), so no content designer can do anything :L

[xxMATTGxx]

@xxMATTGxx; how far in terms of progress would you say V7 is out of interest? 10%... 50%... More?

A lot of V7 is pretty much functional. One of our problems is bringing over a specific system from V6 and making it work with V7 and putting any changes into it. It's there but needs work being done to it. Staff panels and putting in all the features the departments wanted that weren't in V6 is what is being worked on at the moment I would say.

[Chippiewill]

was v7 not suppose to come out in september....... why is every time habbox decideds to release a new site it gets delayed for years

V7 was scheduled for August and as a content department our deadline for all pages to be complete for V7 was brought ahead to an earlier than anticipated date so we dropped everything to get all the pages done, following that we've bided our time expecting imminent release of V7, obviously this didn't happen and now V6 pages are getting outdated. I'll look into getting some of the time sensitive pages done up.

As far as how complete is V7? Around 60%

[GommeInc]

I don't even think we're allowed to request to update a Habbox V6 page at the moment aha. The focus was shoved on v7 and it is rather annoying looking around the site and seeing how much needs updated. The content designers were told very very quickly to 'hurry up' at one point (with v7)... so god knows why if it's still not out.

They could just ignore whoever is giving the commands because old pages are more important than a new site version. The current version is what your target audience is viewing, they couldn't give a crap about some new version which should never of been talked about as you'll only get a re-occurrence of when V6 came out.

I think you are getting confused, I said that in regards of V7. I am talking about the development of V7, nothing to do with the content of V6 which isn't what Graham was talking about. I didn't actually post a reason for why the content on the current site wasn't updated.

That's exactly what I was referring to. If you need to be paid to develop V7 then something is incredibly wrong. People can work voluntary to develop website versions, as long as they enjoy it. It shouldn't take too long either. And you didn't post a reason for outdated content because there is no reason to let your current content become outdated, it's a really bad idea

As far as how complete is V7? Around 60%

You were anticipating an August release with (what would be less than) a 60% complete site? What :S