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[HotelUser]

Garion, Oli, any reply to this please? http://www.habboxforum.com/showthrea...93#post6456993


Live post has been discussed. It would slow the forum down too much.
BBCode in usertitles is not there as members cannot have editable usertitles. Donors can have editable ones while VIP can have HTML ones.
Javascript is likely to cause security flaws. Many skins were done before the vb4 release? Only the old ones were recreated after. It took time to get them up as Jin wasn't on as much as no one else had FTP access. So you are trying to point out flaws which never existed. Sort your own department out first seriously as you seem to have zero clue about the forum.

That's true about live posts, but I thought other forums of the same popularity as Habbox had them?

Since when could VIPs directly embed HTML into their signatures?

Javascript is a client side language and would pose absolutely no threats to Habbox Forum.

There was a delay after VB4 (along with many complaining threads) about themes, or rather lack thereof.

My department is already sorted. I would consider it exceedingly petty to bring in old quarrels between you and my staffmembers into a thread about Habbox Forum.

[Tintinnabulate]

(which intertwined to the long wait for the vbulletin upgrade, and the skins not being done prior to) was what I'd regard as a hint of laziness which should have happened.

Just to add to my above post: There was one person doing the skins. A good skin doesn't take 5 minutes to make you know. The only skins which were made afterwards were the old skins.

[HotelUser]

Just to add to my above post: There was one person doing the skins. A good skin doesn't take 5 minutes to make you know. The only skins which were made afterwards were the old skins.

There are, I am sure, able and willing users (as I pointed out at the time) who would have been more and happy to do up some wonderful skins. Jewish Bear was practically posting thread per minute on what needed to be done, he should have been allowed to theme himself.

[Tintinnabulate]

That's true about live posts, but I thought other forums of the same popularity as Habbox had them?

Since when could VIPs directly embed HTML into their signatures?

Javascript is a client side language and would pose absolutely no threats to Habbox Forum.

There was a delay after VB4 (along with many complaining threads) about themes, or rather lack thereof.

My department is already sorted. I would consider it exceedingly petty to bring in old quarrels between you and my staffmembers into a thread about Habbox Forum.

I am honestly starting to think you are drunk today.
Other forums dont have a huge database like habbox's. Only those who have owned/run such a large forum realise how bad live posts is. Its ok for small forums, never for big ones.

When did I say anything about signatures? I said usertitles as you mentioned usertitles. HTML should never be allowed in signatures. It is a security flaw and vB recommend that you do not allow it. I could easily add 10000000 pop ups in my signature. I am sure you would love that.

You said skins weren't made. Tbh I prefer good skins rather than crap rushed skins.

If you read my first post in this thread (located on page 3) you will see that your department is far from sorted. I get warned for stupid things such as making jokes or calling someone an idiot in a friendly jokey way.

[Nixt]

I am surprised I didn't see this thread till now. I too have noticed a lot of members being online but a lack of posts. Take the 'Discuss Anything' forum for example, a year or two ago, the first page was filled with posts made in one day. Now it goes back several days.

Policy 'in my day' was if a thread in "Discuss Anything" and was relevant to another forum as well it should be left in Discuss Anything providing it isn't really more suited to another forum. For example a thread such as "HELP MY COMPUTER R BROKE" would really be better suited in Tech but something like "What computer would you buy?" if posted in Discuss Anything could really just stay there. This is really down to Moderator discretion; if a more established member posts such a thread in Discuss Anything it is obvious they did so because they wanted it there. This is something I am sure Oli will look into.

I have been on this forum for over 5 years and number of posts in these forums have declined slowly mainly due to the people who used to post in them used to break a few rules too. Over time they ended up being perm banned. They left, meaning less activity, meaning some others left too.
That is why I have always asked for a mass unban. Place all unbanned users in a special usergroup, if they get more than 2 infractions = ban again as they clearly don't deserve to be here.

Even Habbo unban users from perm bans so I dont see why Habbox can't. It will increase a bit of activity for sure, and that is beneficial to the forum. Like I said, the special usergroup will mean the unbanned users will probably not break rules as they will want to keep their account.

I personally don't think this is a good idea. A significant amount of the people who are banned are banned for a good reason and I feel it's only fair, just and reasonable to keep those bans. If members feel their ban is unfair they are more than welcome to appeal it and we are generally quite good on evaluating situations. I'll cut you a deal, though. Perhaps on the weekend when I have a little more time I will go through the Permanent ban lists and have a look see if I think there are certain bans that aren't fair or could be considered unfair in the current forum climate. If I think there are I will unban the user and email them informing them that there old account is unbanned. I will have to discuss this with both Matt and Oli first, I'm just throwing ideas out there.

Habbox.com is also getting a makeover. Jin posted an announcement regarding it earlier this year stating you will be able to customise the site, move the content boxes around etc, so that should make Habbox unique as no other fansites offer that.
Habbox needs to offer more things rather than just Rare Values as the key thing. I have suggested to Alkaz a few ideas for the site, which he liked so I am hoping they will be implemented if they can get the right people to do it.

Yes I think this will be happening in the summer which is good! Habbox.com is our number one source for members and if this is optimised the forum will benefit from it.

It will also be good to do more forum wide competitions - where members have to get together - as it makes the forum more active. The Forum Elections clearly increased activity. It also meant a lot of new members signed up to vote and hopefully some of those will stay on to post etc.

I really did enjoy the Forum Election competition and I would love to do more. I'll be honest though I do find it hard to come up with ideas sometimes but we will try. If anyone can suggest any competitions I'd be more than willing to start running them.

Another thing I think is vital (and this used to happen a lot back in 2006-2007), is for Forum (Super) Moderators to create threads and post regularly. I am not going to name any names as its unfair, but most Forum (Super) Moderators rarely ever create threads or make posts. Its a fact that new members love it when people in Red / Lime reply to their threads/posts.

This has now been addressed by Oli within the Mod Forum and will also be closely monitored by us both.

This is not forum related but ... some HxHD staff are ridiculous. They are like robots. They look for key terms and not actually read the whole conversation. I was having a joke with someone in there and I called that person an idiot (clearly as a joke if they read the whole convo) and I got a warning. I am sure only JamesOYES seems to have common sense there.

You can contact me with any complaints about HxHD Staff and I will look into it. I am sure Ben and David would also like to know if there staff aren't doing their jobs properly too. We can only fix these things if you give us examples and show us when it does happen.

[HotelUser]

I am honestly starting to think you are drunk today.
Other forums dont have a huge database like habbox's. Only those who have owned/run such a large forum realise how bad live posts is. Its ok for small forums, never big ones.

When did I say anything about signatures? I said usertitles as you mentioned usertitles. HTML should never be allowed in signatures. It is a security flaw and vB recommend that you do not allow it. I could easily add 10000000 pop ups in my signature. I am sure you would love that.

You said skins weren't made. Tbh I prefer good skins rather than crap rushed skins.

If you read my first post in this thread (located on page 3) you will see that your department is far from sorted. I get warned for stupid things such as making jokes or calling someone an idiot in a friendly jokey way.

Contrary to what's not popular believe I'm not drunk.

I meant usertitles, you cannot directly embed HTML into usertitles for the exact reasons you outlined. That's why BBCode would be the suitable replacement which has not been implemented.

Read my last post about skins.

If you're experiencing problems with HxHD, you shouldn't post it in a HxF thread. You should make a new thread or PM HxHD management.

[Tintinnabulate]

Contrary to what's not popular believe I'm not drunk.

I meant usertitles, you cannot directly embed HTML into usertitles for the exact reasons you outlined. That's why BBCode would be the suitable replacement which has not been implemented.

Read my last post about skins.

If you're experiencing problems with HxHD, you shouldn't post it in a HxF thread. You should make a new thread or PM HxHD management.

BBCode would mean brandon and Yoshi will not have much to do I dont think it would be possible to have multiple line usertitles using BBCode. Asking brandon etc to do it doesn't take long and they usually do it within 24 hours.

[Nixt]

There are, I am sure, able and willing users (as I pointed out at the time) who would have been more and happy to do up some wonderful skins. Jewish Bear was practically posting thread per minute on what needed to be done, he should have been allowed to theme himself.

If members would like to make a skin for us and have the ability to do we would love to hear from them!

Contrary to what's not popular believe I'm not drunk.

I meant usertitles, you cannot directly embed HTML into usertitles for the exact reasons you outlined. That's why BBCode would be the suitable replacement which has not been implemented.

Read my last post about skins.

If you're experiencing problems with HxHD, you shouldn't post it in a HxF thread. You should make a new thread or PM HxHD management.

People can request VIP HTML usertitles is what he means.

[HotelUser]

BBCode would mean brandon and Yoshi will not have much to do I dont think it would be possible to have multiple line usertitles using BBCode. Asking brandon etc to do it doesn't take long and they usually do it within 24 hours.

No it's not. All it requires is replacing the input box with a textbox, a few lines of preg_replace and nl2br.

[xxMATTGxx]

I am honestly starting to think you are drunk today.
Other forums dont have a huge database like habbox's. Only those who have owned/run such a large forum realise how bad live posts is. Its ok for small forums, never for big ones.

When did I say anything about signatures? I said usertitles as you mentioned usertitles. HTML should never be allowed in signatures. It is a security flaw and vB recommend that you do not allow it. I could easily add 10000000 pop ups in my signature. I am sure you would love that.

You said skins weren't made. Tbh I prefer good skins rather than crap rushed skins.

If you read my first post in this thread (located on page 3) you will see that your department is far from sorted. I get warned for stupid things such as making jokes or calling someone an idiot in a friendly jokey way.

Contrary to what's not popular believe I'm not drunk.

I meant usertitles, you cannot directly embed HTML into usertitles for the exact reasons you outlined. That's why BBCode would be the suitable replacement which has not been implemented.

Read my last post about skins.

If you're experiencing problems with HxHD, you shouldn't post it in a HxF thread. You should make a new thread or PM HxHD management.

Are you two getting confused regarding the so called "HTML" user titles for VIPs where they can be bold, in colour or even scrolling etc. That gets done by the Feature Managers and they can't add that themselves.


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Forum Skins:

We know that users aren't too popular with the new skin choices we have at the moment but we are thinking about getting another one made or even a couple more. Although I won't promise anything but it sure is in discussion. If you can create skins for Vb 4 then do please stand up and wave to us (contact myself or Forum Management)

Live Post:

It may of been a good feature but this is something we did not want to add on to the forum. I believe it was something to do with the impact of the server load.

Javascript:

What JavaScript are we actually talking about here?

Vb4 Delay:

It wasn't really our fault, although you may say it is because we chose to upgrade to it. But the fact certain releases/updates kept getting pushed back by vBulletin, it took longer to get installed public. Although we always did have a test forum so we could try the skins out etc etc.

Thanks System:

I do like thanks systems although on some forums it counts for reputation and others it doesn't. So the reputation system as we know it would probably have to be demolished, which could put some upset to users. So probably would not happen.


I probably have missed stuff but I will keep checking the thread over and over again and try and post with answers.