Habbox Live concerns

[myke]

if habboxlive was supposed to be professional then ok

everyone starts somewhere and people make mistakes, HabboxLive is far from being a professional radio station which is the way it should be

all i have to say

ta

[scott]

time to bring in fresh blood (new manager) i dont have a problem with jess but she has been in the position for years and its clear they need someone with new, fresh ideas. Im sure if management thought she was a great manager she would have been promoted to agm or something because she has been here so long, but she hasnt.

She has been there a while and does a great job at managing HabboxLive - If she didn't she wouldn't still be the manager, how do you know that she didn't get asked to be AGM? I'm sure when nvrspk4 was general manager she was in the running to become it but nobody was able to take over as manager as HxL? I can't remember. When she became manager at first her and Jrh did quite well to get the listeners back up as they had dropped quite a bit, during her management the listeners managed to increase to 300+. It certainly isn't her fault in the drop of listeners, I was assistant manager at the time when they started to drop - the radio broke loads the server kept kicking people off and 3 weeks later it was still waiting to be fixed, even after many PMs had been sent to get it sorted. As I said it isn't just a decrease in HabboxLive listeners - all fansites are getting it too.

The player on Habbox.com has now been changed to a flash player to work in all browsers

Good !

if habboxlive was supposed to be professional then ok

everyone starts somewhere and people make mistakes, HabboxLive is far from being a professional radio station which is the way it should be

all i have to say

ta

I couldn't agree more I think people sometimes forget that the DJs do it voluntarily and that it isn't a 'professional radio'.

[xxMATTGxx]

There is quite a lot of posts I wish to quote but will take up far too much room.

Listeners: If anything I believe it's a bit of both. I don't think it's just the problems within the HabboxLive department itself but other online radios are also having lower listeners compared to the old times when there would be in the hundreds for pretty much nearly the whole day if it's in the holidays. Although improvements can be made to improve the current listener problem to see if it does anything.

Cover/Senior: Cover is such problem at HabboxLive, I've seen many times DJ's spamming msn asking for someone to cover but no one seems to do it. I'm not going to say "no one does it" because that would be a lie and I'm sure certain DJ's do cover when they can. This is something that should be improved by the HxL Management; maybe the Auto DJ Richie suggested could help in them situations. But Jin would have to say yes to that one

Kazopark:

I believe advertising this on air is part of the deal with Kazopark and Habbox. Obviously this is something that can't be changed with ease. I'm sorry if it annoys you that they have to say it like every show and what not.

Furni:

We do some of what have a furni/prize issue and don't have tons of amazing prizes to give away each time a competition is done on HabboxLive. Although Roxy can you give you the better answer to that as she is the one who mainly deals with any furni/prizes for the community departments.

Radio Compatibility:

I've just got Robbie (Site Coder) to change the radio player on Habbox.com. It should now work in all browsers without the WMP plugin. (Thanks to Robbie for doing that)


Regarding the HxL site; We will see.

Speaking over songs & radio going off air:

Speaking over songs can be quite annoying when it is tune you enjoy listening to or you requested. It has improved since the last time it was brought up but there is always room for more improvement in that. Regarding your suggestion for when the radio goes offline Richie, It could be ideal for times when no one can DJ but this is something Jin will have to say yes to. (Most likely)

I agree that Habbox itself and HabboxLive need to have a bigger presence on Habbo. This is why we have a week full of events and giveaways during this week (If I have the dates correct) which might/should help get the Habbox name more out there. Hopefully this will attack some new users from other parts of the world also.

@Alex3213:

"Some of the DJs SHOUT DOWN THE MIC." < Yeah some DJ's do like talk loud or shout loud which means I have to turn the volume down. Then the songs can be low and then I will have to turn it back up!

"All staff should help others" < I agree. Everyone should help each other, if they need help in doing something then help them/teach them if you know how to do something. Even if it's covering one of their shows for whatever reason. If you can do it, do it.

CD Prizes: Might have an issue with privacy and how many people would actually give out their address? Well the Post Office could do and it also depends on how much money we are willing to spend on prizes for our listeners.

Maybe the better solution is: iTunes or something. On iTunes you can gift Music/Films/Tv Shows/iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad applications, this way you only need an iTunes account and their email address right?

This reminds me of when DJ Sacha did a competition where she exactly did this. I believe it was popular? Maybe this is something that can be on a regular occurrence if possible.

Jingles:

Jingles were meant to come ages ago or something? I do not know what ever happened to that. I'm sure someone from HxL Management can alert me on what went on.

Regarding Hiring Staff:

I don't think we should turn away someone because of their age or lack of experiences. We all start from somewhere and we are not a FM radio station with 1,000s of listeners a day. They can only hire who apply and sometimes they can't do much about that. There is some great DJ's at HxL at the moment and there is also DJ's who could prove a lot and I'm sure they will do over time.

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I will keep looking at the thread and reply when needed. It's sometimes what hard to reply to everything but I think I've covered some of the main points.

[sammy]

I agree with almost everything David, Richie & Scott have said, +rep to you all.

Firstly, I hate the Kazopark thing. I feel exactly the same as Sacha, in fact when I first heard about it I thought it was a joke. It's impossible for us to pretend we're really enthusiastic when we're clearly not, I still think a jingle should be made for it but for some reason that hasn't happened lol.

I'm in two minds about new management, Jess does loads for the department and she's an amazing manager, but I do agree that someone with fresh ideas could be brought in, but obviously recently we've had a change in the Asst. Manager and I'm sure Gemma has loads of ideas in that noggin of hers . That being said, Jess is a great manager and I'd hate to see her go.

I do agree that more competitions with bigger prizes should be held. I'm terrible with comps cause I always forget to do them then try to cram them in in the last 10 minutes and it just fails. I know Aiden did a few throne comps and I think more of these need to be introduced.

In my opinion Habbox wasn't advertised anywhere near enough during the merge. I think giveaways should've been planned and held at least like twice a day, but I think the events dept have like a big week of events and giveaways and stuff so that should help with HabboxLive & Habbox as a whole. I'm really annoyed that Scott's idea of a HxL hangout was not allowed, it would've worked really well & advertised HxL a bit more.

I don't think there are many immature DJs at all. Theres a couple but as Scott says, they will obviously gain experience as they continue to work at HxL. I didn't have any experience when I first came so I think I've matured a lot and got better (hopefully ). I really don't think there's a problem with ages of the DJs either, there's actually not many young DJs at all and I think it's just them sounding younger than they actually are - anyway applicants could hardly be denied "because you sound young" :S.

I think more events such as Habbox Starz need to be introduced, because that got us 100 listeners for the first time in a while, and the party room was full with 50 people, everyone was talking in there and the atmosphere was fantastic.

I might edit this post cause I forgot a lot of what people said so yh (A).

[scott]

Cover/Senior: Cover is such problem at HabboxLive, I've seen many times DJ's spamming msn asking for someone to cover but no one seems to do it. I'm not going to say "no one does it" because that would be a lie and I'm sure certain DJ's do cover when they can. This is something that should be improved by the HxL Management; maybe the Auto DJ Richie suggested could help in them situations. But Jin would have to say yes to that one


Speaking over songs & radio going off air:

Speaking over songs can be quite annoying when it is tune you enjoy listening to or you requested. It has improved since the last time it was brought up but there is always room for more improvement in that. Regarding your suggestion for when the radio goes offline Richie, It could be ideal for times when no one can DJ but this is something Jin will have to say yes to. (Most likely)

Jingles:

Jingles were meant to come ages ago or something? I do not know what ever happened to that. I'm sure someone from HxL Management can alert me on what went on.

Auto-DJ - a big no no. It was tried in the past and failed, someone would need to be on to kick it off - It would make the DJs lazy and just think 'oh well if nobody DJs it doesn't matter the auto dj will come on'. What was the big thing about stopping streaming? :S That's what that would be...pretty stupid and pointless.

Jingles were meant to be ready in March In May i contacted Jin asking and apparently there was no money to buy any.

[Dean]

@Robbie

Can you PLEASE add a volume control to Habbox.com? I have a Mac and I can NOW listen on Habbox.com BUT, it's too loud! and I can't change the volume.

[Robbie]

@Robbie

Can you PLEASE add a volume control to Habbox.com? I have a Mac and I can NOW listen on Habbox.com BUT, it's too loud! and I can't change the volume.

I don't know if there's space. It's currently set at 45/100 at default. I'll ask Matt though

[Dean]

I don't know if there's space. It's currently set at 45/100 at default. I'll ask Matt though

Thanks

[Robbie]

Thanks

OK, I'm going to try and add a volume control under the Listeners on the stats. It may not work though, so I'll post again later with an update

[Nemo]

if habboxlive was supposed to be professional then ok

everyone starts somewhere and people make mistakes, HabboxLive is far from being a professional radio station which is the way it should be

all i have to say

ta

Well they should strive to be as professional as possible, i dont know bout you, but i dont wanna listen to some amateur crap when i could just go to listen what i wanted or to a better radio station

not saying hxl atm is amateur crap, just usin that as an example