New desk layout =

[Sammeth.]

I have my views and opinions on this, and when I try to put them across inside the helpdesk, I am drowned out by moans of "I'M GONNA PUKE!!" from people who expect me to say "I'LL HOLD YOUR HAIR BACK" rather than "I don't think it's that bad."

I think it's all quite nice and fun, and the colours match. Maybe it's not glitzy and glamourous and you find it a bit cheap and nasty - since when was Eurovision a classy competition? At the end of the day, all we wanted to do was create a nice fun atmosphere inside the desk, with an area for people to dance and sing on, which will also be used for the fabulous events we have coming up.

I personally think that some people are failing to appreciate the fact that we're trying to do something nice for everyone and giving away a few prizes here and there and celebrating something which is fun and cheesy and happy, even if it's not a holiday like Christmas, Valentines or Easter.

It'll all be over next Sunday after the UK wins .

Yeah, the main focus shouldn't be the desk itself but what's going on in the desk. We're putting on 10 days worth of quizzes, yet no ones said "thank you" or "that'll be fun" yet I know a certain someone who will probably turn up to 95% of them. It's just a bit of fun, the staff have been amazingly kind in hosting all these quizzes and they don't get the respect they deserve. I think some people are getting their priorities all wrong!

And for the record, Eurovision gets 9mil in a country of 60mil - Lost gets less than double that (15mil) in a country of 300mil so there is a big difference. I'll agree that Eurovision has a large gay following, especially in the UK but many straight guys do watch it - a lot of my friends do. I know in European countries they take it a lot more seriously than we do, and even more straight guys watch it. Worldwide it gets around 100million viewers. Its a nice amount. If you really want, we'll change it back, we'll keep it as it is and we'll change it for Christmas instead, we won't do the quizzes or anything else we planned and just stick to the two per month. All we're trying to do is a nice thing for our faithful visitors.

[leah]

Approx 10% of population is gay.

there is 6,706,993,152 people in the world (as of july 08 approx)
10% of that is 670,699,315

670 million gays

so yeh, also lost has 15million viewers approx, can we get a forest layout with a hut etc for lost?

Lost is also watched worldwide.

No because Lost is part of a series whereas the Eurovision song contect is an annual event that includes most european countries.

[scottish]

Theres one series a year (lost)
Theres one event a year (crapvision)
...

I don't see olympics layout for when theres olympics
or well, for that matter, any other layout :S

football layouts?
BAFTA or whatever kinda awards layouts

etc.

Imho i prefer it not being changed as much and having a decent layout

imho HxHD would be better off with nvrs old layout but obviously the bar alot smaller.

[Sammeth.]

I didn't own it during the Olympics. Maybe we could rustle one up for The World Cup, who knows. Awards shows, that's just silly.

We can never win, because we'll never please everyone. No matter what we do people complain. My point was though, people complained about the lack of events so we thought when we did all this stuff that's exclusive to the helpdesk, people would appreciate that we're going all out to provide entertainment for them - but instead they prefer to find something NEW to complain about (in this case how the desk will look for the next ten days).

We'll take it all on board for the next layout, which I guess now will be Halloween.

[scottish]

Euro vision is "sillier" than award shows IMHO.

If you give away 10hc it doesn't matter the help desk is still ugly so people will still say thats its cheap/crap etc. ;s

[Sammeth.]

Yeah they might do, what I'm saying is the layout isn't the main focus, it should be what we're doing to entertain you as guests. The layout is a minor part of that - it's stopping absolutely no one going in (and if they aren't going in because of the layout it says a lot more about them than it does about us). The main focus should be what the staff are doing for the visitors. We could just never do anything for you, no quizzes, no fun, no prizes. I'm sure that wouldn't go down well.

As I said, we'll take on all comments on board for our next halloween layout.

[Markeh]

Dont like the new layout. I like the idea of the events, and the stage, too. HOWEVER, HELLO FURNI? no. Seriously, this is what quite a few people will see when they think of Habbox. Noob furni in there, is not a good impression.

[Absently]

Ooh. I don't goto the helpdesk, but I went to see it and I really like it. I think it's cool.

[Kieeran]

Personally with all this negative feedback i think you should change it :p and let people who come to hxhd decide on a theme on a poll like do a theme once a month excep february april october & december (valentine, easter, halloween, christmas) the other months should be voted on by everyone else.

[scottish]

Yeah they might do, what I'm saying is the layout isn't the main focus, it should be what we're doing to entertain you as guests. The layout is a minor part of that - it's stopping absolutely no one going in (and if they aren't going in because of the layout it says a lot more about them than it does about us). The main focus should be what the staff are doing for the visitors. We could just never do anything for you, no quizzes, no fun, no prizes. I'm sure that wouldn't go down well.

As I said, we'll take on all comments on board for our next halloween layout.

Ultimately if you never done nothing it affects habbox more than its visitors as you lose even more popularity in the desk if you don't host the events