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[Rachel]

It would be nice to have either a shoutbox or a chat option at the bottom of the forum. I am not sure if it was already thought about but especially the chat option I would like to see or at least try it.

[Nick]

It would be nice to have either a shoutbox or a chat option at the bottom of the forum. I am not sure if it was already thought about but especially the chat option I would like to see or at least try it.

It has been done in the past but fail and the current state the forum is in I don't think a shoutbox is needed as it will decrease posting.

[Nick]

Close Debates

They're not popular, when one does come out it's either completely stupid or the same generic debate that's been done 300 times in the past 10 year (abortion, death penalty as a perfect example of the current 2)

The department itself isn't needed as it's useless and the debates spewed out by Dan are absolutely crap. The member debates could easily be posted within Discuss Anything instead.

For example just now we have the last post being 12 days ago (posted in a member debate), and the last post on official debates being between 20-27 days ago.

I am not sure we actually have a say in what goes for debates since it is technically another department. If we did have a say on what goes on in forum related departments then we would have a say in what competitions are posted etc but really we don't. Although a debates leader isn't really needed its good to have someone there to at least push out debates every now and again with rewards. I don't really view that forum at all so I don't know what really goes on but Dan could post a thread where people suggest debates or you guys can post debates and Dan could then decide wether or not its worth debating on and add prizes etc.

Fix the shop on non habbo dark skin

It's ugly and not been modified for the black laoyout

I've had a look at the non habbo skin shop and to be honest with you it freaks me out to change stuff because it looks scary lol. Um so I might have another play around with it and try not to break stuff..

Fix the shop

The only time gold bars are added is if there's a thread about it, then they'll add some for a few minutes then remove them again, either do it periodically (say on the first day of every month) and announce it so everyone has the same chance, or remove gold bars from the shop if you're never going to stock them.

Matt was the one that sold the gold bars (Assuming Chris would now, maybe). So unless I want to buy credits with my own money, which I don't want to, I don't know when they would be coming back. I like what you suggested about having them being sold on the first of every month though.

Sell VIP

Do Sulake even care if you sell VIP now? I'm pretty sure they haven't for years, added to that you used to only do it for Christmas (as money was going to charity) and now you seem to do it every holiday event (easter, summer, h'ween, etc), so I'm sure if they were against it you'd already be breaking their rules by doing that, so why not just fully go back to selling it?

Sulake don't have a problem with us selling VIP. They dropped it when Chris was the forum manager. We don't have any plans to sell VIP as of yet but I think we should keep it for seasonal purposes/comps/events etc so it has value.

Fix your calendar

If you go to the calendar (http://www.habboxforum.com/calendar.php) and click for example the 21st, 2 events booked yet it directs you to the forum homepage. So either it's set to 2 by default so it doesn't look dead or there's something wrong with your script.

Assuming this would be server side so we don't have access.

Make posting more 'attractive'

You have the Weekly Posting Stats (do you? it's not been posted since the 6th of October) which is meant to encourage people to post, but it doesn't. No-ones going to intentionally post 100 times so they can get VIP for the next week, and repeat it constantly. You need to make people want to post.

For example, if I post a bunch of threads the posts basically doubled.

Take the last weekly stats for example: 0 over 100 posts, 1145 total posts, 166 posters

Take a week I posted a few threads: 2 over 100 posts, 2816 total posts, 191 posters
Another week I posted a few threads: 2 over 100 posts, 2160 total posts, 156 posters

If you want people to post, then you actively need to make threads that people will want to post in, otherwise they'll look at the new posts/activity stream, see nothing and do nothing. They're not going to say oh the forums dead let's liven it up, they'll just look on another forum or do something else.

Encourage the mod team to posts, hell encourage every department to actively post more. Encourage them to actively make threads that'll promote discussion rather than replying to some thread with nothing useful.

Myself and Phil had a talk about improving the prizes for the 100 posts stats and I think we are having the prizes accumulate like motm. A thread will most likely be posted later on regarding this.

Also we have brought back staff posting which will hopefully encourage all staff to post more regularly. I wanted to make a requirement in the forum department and I don't think Phil wanted to, so im un sure about that at this point in time.

Clean up the forum

Take some time, go through the forums and clean it up.

Some examples:
- Sub forums that aren't active - merged with the parent forum in most cases just add a prefix or something.
- Old stickied threads - re-write them so it's appropriate now, or just remove them.

I'm sick of seeing stickied threads by someone who left 8 years ago tbh.

And the likes of temporary stickied threads becoming stuck for 3 years.

In my opinion, all stickied threads should be posted by a 'high' ranking member of staff (be it forum manager, smods, or agms)

Some examples of these could be;

http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=720719 - A stickied thread that should have been temp.
http://www.habboxforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=432 - A subforum that hasn't been posted in for over a year and 6 months



That's all I can be bothered to think about just now

We have posted a thread regarding all old threads that need to be re done. Not all old ones are being re done by the current manager because they aren't really needed to such as comps and some other ones written by Matt that are still useful. I also went some of the sections and un stuck some threads that haven't been posted in for yonks but I have left some threads that have been posted ages ago as some hold some good information. I think we are planning to post most of the forum department related threads on forum god.

As of a few days ago I had merged the tutorials section with designing and development as well as adding a tutorial prefix. This will be posted in a thread once all of the clean up is completed.

Thought I would let you know whats going on rather than keeping you in the dark

[-Nick]

@Nick; sunday forum updates?

[Nick]

Most probably

[scottish]

I'm on iPad and cba replying with a lot of effort s will do on Tuesday.

Regarding debates talk to management about it. See what they think about closing and getting rid of that forum.

VIP doesn't have value, it's a piece of piss to win it and if you want it you can buy it in one of the 10 seasonal events that you sell it on. So I ee no reason not to permanently sell it.

Can you give us statistics on the purchases of every VIP released in the past year, and the stats on donator? (By stats I just mean total purchases and monthly purchases)

Calendar again take up with appropriate depth who can deal with it

I honestly don't think a running reward will do much to encourage. Maybe have something like:
1 month VIP for whoever makes the most threads
1 month VIP for whoever makes the most posts
1 week VIP for (anyone else) that has over 100 posts

[Phil]

I'm on iPad and cba replying with a lot of effort s will do on Tuesday.

Regarding debates talk to management about it. See what they think about closing and getting rid of that forum.

VIP doesn't have value, it's a piece of piss to win it and if you want it you can buy it in one of the 10 seasonal events that you sell it on. So I ee no reason not to permanently sell it.

Can you give us statistics on the purchases of every VIP released in the past year, and the stats on donator? (By stats I just mean total purchases and monthly purchases)

Calendar again take up with appropriate depth who can deal with it

I honestly don't think a running reward will do much to encourage. Maybe have something like:
1 month VIP for whoever makes the most threads
1 month VIP for whoever makes the most posts
1 week VIP for (anyone else) that has over 100 posts

In relation to the calendar, I've spoke with the Site Coders and it's on their list of things to do

[Empired]

Can we have a forum notification every time Happy Hour is on? I know it gets posted in the CNB but honestly hardly anyone actually looks in there. Plus if there's an event on, that CNB notice is going to get covered up pretty quickly.

Can we please change this at the very least


1. Tonight's Happy Hour is 8:30-9:30pm not 1-2pm
2. It's GMT now not BST
3. The summery theme doesn't reeaaaaally fit seeing as it's November but that won't kill me

But yeah points 1 and 2 are kinda urgent. Just seems lazy to contradict all of the information in the banner like tonight.

Thanksss

[Phil]

Can we have a forum notification every time Happy Hour is on? I know it gets posted in the CNB but honestly hardly anyone actually looks in there. Plus if there's an event on, that CNB notice is going to get covered up pretty quickly.

Can we please change this at the very least


1. Tonight's Happy Hour is 8:30-9:30pm not 1-2pm
2. It's GMT now not BST
3. The summery theme doesn't reeaaaaally fit seeing as it's November but that won't kill me

But yeah points 1 and 2 are kinda urgent. Just seems lazy to contradict all of the information in the banner like tonight.

Thanksss

There is a Forum Notice and went up a few minutes after I posted. Can you see it? I know a lot of people don't spy on the CNB to see what's happening but it sdtill comes up in the New Posts, Activity Stream etc. which a lot of people DO check.

Omg lmao oops! That's Nicks from AGESSSSS AGO! Yeah I know but meh, I'll be requesting a more wintery one for the next few months

Thanks for the feedback!

[scottish]

I have CNB on ignore so notice does help. That notice went live like ten mins ago