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[Mentor]

Hello,

Well, it's been mentioned that one of the reasons the forum is running slow of late is because of the large number of forums contained within the board.
I imagine there's a great deal non-viewable to me that jin is likely eyeing up, but of the main forums around i think there are a few that could easly disappear without anyone missing them.

If anyone has any major objections to the forums i'm listing, then probs a good idea to post here. Or if you have some you'd like to add.

I do want to point out this is just a suggestion, chances are there may be additional reasons why some forums need to stay that us members aint privy to.

That said, without further ado my list :p

Debates (2 forums)
Member debates is going strong as always, but the main debates section lives on despite never really getting much use, and now having been void of any debates for a good few months.
My suggestion here would be remove debates and finished debates (maybe just move them in to the member debates forum for archive purpose's)
And just have the members debates forum there on its own (possibly renamed to just debates)

VIP competitions + ended VIP competitions (2 forums)
May just be me but it doesn't look like its been used in a while, and honestly (even more so in light of the removal of the ability to have full VIP's by habbo) people may as well just join the more active normal competitions.

Ask habbox staff (9 forums)
This ones a little more fringe as i'm not really sure how many people make use of it. Personally though i think alot of people would just ask here in habbox feedback, or in the relevant section forums. Although normal members could answer as well, personally i'd say thats more helpful as more often than not the normal forum members will be able to answer the querys anyway and have more time to spend doing so than the staff members

Graphics (1 forum)
This is another area where there seem to be more forums than really needed, but is again an area i expect i few will disagree with me on.
My suggestion would be to combine the elite sections together (both none habbo and habbo) Possibly use the prefix's people think its important, but there arnt really enough threads to warrant the need for so many forums IMO.
The nominate a elite could possibly be moved inside the elites section also, as although it seems a bit much to be, i quite like the fact elites are user voted.


All in all that's a possible 14 forums that could be merged/removed as long as no one feels they are particularly needed. There are a few others too, such as the VIP tips/tricks which seems kinda pointless.

But this is just an initial suggestion.

Any thoughts?

[Plank]

Good suggestions.

The competition forums as a whole could be slimmed down a lot (i don't think you mentioned it), it doesn't look frequently used - one forum hasn't been used since 2008.

http://www.habboxforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=5

Also while we're at it

This forum would be better with capital Gs on the games. http://www.habboxforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=770

Plus, like people were saying in another thread, blogs could go.

[AgnesIO]

I find it interesting how we removed the 'users viewing' thing.

IT WAS FINE BEFORE.

[Wootzeh]

oh and get rid of the pointless literature forum.

[Plank]

Also...

the food and drink forum could go. the threads go back to last month on the first page, and the ones that are there are just so pointless (like this/that, favourite food, what r u eating), and the non-pointless ones would fit alright in discuss anything since hardly any threads are made

http://www.habboxforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=718

[Mentor]

Also...

the food and drink forum could go. the threads go back to last month on the first page, and the ones that are there are just so pointless (like this/that, favourite food, what r u eating), and the non-pointless ones would fit alright in discuss anything since hardly any threads are made

http://www.habboxforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=718

True, i think alot of the content in there would be better suited to the general discussion forums anyway

Also forgot about competitions, i think you may be right though as 6 sub forums seems a bit much International Competitions espeally as it only has one post ever

oh and get rid of the pointless literature forum.

Its kinda new so probs an idea to give em a bit of a chance with it first :p

[Mrs.McCall]

oh and get rid of the pointless literature forum.

Not pointless at all. It may not get posted in every day but quite a few people like it.

[CHA!NGANG]

I find it interesting how we removed the 'users viewing' thing.

IT WAS FINE BEFORE.

The whole reason that it was removed was because there were too many Forums, and Jin said that we couldn't have both, hence this thread. If we can get rid of some, then maybe the users viewing thing can come back.

[Yoshimitsui]

Ask habbox staff (9 forums)
This ones a little more fringe as i'm not really sure how many people make use of it. Personally though i think alot of people would just ask here in habbox feedback, or in the relevant section forums. Although normal members could answer as well, personally i'd say thats more helpful as more often than not the normal forum members will be able to answer the querys anyway and have more time to spend doing so than the staff members

[/B]

I would like to personally comment on this one. I say a definite no, simply because posting in feedback does not always get you the specific answer but often answers from people who do not know what they are talking about or wish to be quite rude, it is also not personal to members of staff who can most likely give you the definite answer.
A person may also want to ask a question without others being able to but in and cause a fuss as to why they are asking that question.

I think it is pretty useful and used regularly enough to keep.

[Mentor]

@CHA!NGANG: I never really used the who's viewing this thread feature to begin with, i'm primarily just wanting to get the whole forum sped up a little as it can be quite laggy :p May be an idea to reintroduce as an optional feature though, so users who want it can have it, and others like me who don't care can avoid wasting the extra query

I would like to personally comment on this one. I say a definite no, simply because posting in feedback does not always get you the specific answer but often answers from people who do not know what they are talking about or wish to be quite rude, it is also not personal to members of staff who can most likely give you the definite answer.
A person may also want to ask a question without others being able to but in and cause a fuss as to why they are asking that question.

I think it is pretty useful and used regularly enough to keep.

I see where your coming from, but from a quick sniff though alot of the questions asked do seem to be pretty generic "/ Equally if a staff member really was required, a user could always just PM them.
Additionally another solution may be to simply combine them in to one ask the staff forum, so the ability to ask is still there, but far fewer forums are required in order to do it?

Though again, these are just suggestions