Do not like one of the recent updates!

[Apple]

In a recent forum update you chose to remove the Animals & Pets section and the Food & Drink section, then said that for anything related to them can be now posted in the Discuss Anything section. I'm not sure if it's just me that thinks this but I do not think any thread related to food or animals will do as well in the Discuss Anything section as it would of done in their original sections. Threads related to food or animals just do not suit or fit in with the typical threads posted in Discuss Anything.

If enough people share the same views as me could we please get it reverted back? The reason for it in the first place was to de-clutter the forum but I think it was fine the way it was, or maybe you could implement a feature that allows forum users to choose which sections they want to see. If there is some kind of hack (which I am sure there is) to allow users to tick whichever sections they would like to view out of a list of all the sections in their settings, wouldn't that suffice in de-cluttering the forum as well as bringing in a great new feature?

Thanks for reading, hope others share the same views!

[immense]

Although I do agree with you I think it was done because new users found HxF a bit hard to navigate. Not 100% sure on this so hopefully someone will verify. Say this is the case then although it might be cliche, it has to be done for the greater good. If by making these posts in Discuss Anything and removing two forums makes it easier for new members then it's well worth it in my opinion.

[Apple]

Although I do agree with you I think it was done because new users found HxF a bit hard to navigate. Not 100% sure on this so hopefully someone will verify. Say this is the case then although it might be cliche, it has to be done for the greater good. If by making these posts in Discuss Anything and removing two forums makes it easier for new members then it's well worth it in my opinion.

If you want to look at it like that then just one big section saying post anything in here may actually be more confusing than thought. If you are new here and you see a section named Animals and Pets it may make you think "Oh I'll make a thread about my dog" or "I will have a look at some animals people have". But with Discuss Anything they might just think "Haven't got a clue what to make a thread about" and move on to a more specific section that they find easier to post in.

[immense]

Yeah, I get where you're coming from. I do think it'll lead to a decrease in posts. If people see these forums, they're going to post in them. That can be applied to anything though. If there was a forum called aereoplane experiences I have no doubt I'd post about my different flight experiences.

[Apple]

Yeah, I get where you're coming from. I do think it'll lead to a decrease in posts. If people see these forums, they're going to post in them. That can be applied to anything though. If there was a forum called aereoplane experiences I have no doubt I'd post about my different flight experiences.

I understand what you mean, when posting my previous post I was thinking that you could make loads of random sections and people would post in them. It just sort of broadens peoples minds and they know that they can post a thread in that section and it will be perfectly normal and get sensible replies, however if they were to post that thread in discuss anything the reply rate/quality would not be as high as it would seem really odd and random.

[Richie]

I agree completely, I don't see why more forums would effect the forum in any way. If anything it makes it worse because a bunch of topics are chucked into one forum.

[Hecktix]

HabboxForum had such a vast amount of forums (and still does) it made us much harder to navigate around in comparison to other Habbo forums, Jake is correct.

When I first became Forum Management I heard a couple of users making comments about our index and how its long etc and I'll be honest, I ignored them as I agreed with you - I liked our variety of forums.

However as the weeks and months went on it's something I heard more and more and more - especially from users on Habbo who perhaps had not yet registered or not yet started using the Forum properly, I am usually the first person to shoot down people who say "look at chf, look at hffm" however our index in comparison to some other sites was absolutely huge - it felt quite old if I'm honest and it really did need trimming down a bit.

Posts within Animals & Pets on the first page spanned 1 month, Food & Drink, over a month & a half, what's really the point in having these forums which are pretty much dead, when they can be merged into Discuss Anything which is now twice as active. I agree that perhaps less threads on those topics will be posted now and when people get used to it they'll post more threads eventually, hell, everything else gets posted in Discuss Anything

When we get multiple criticisms about the length of our index I can't afford to have forums on it which rarely get used, it is a loss but as Jake has said it was a loss for the greater good, it has also made Discuss Anything more active and of course with the stuck threads from Food & Drink in there it's a reminder you can post these kind of topics in there.

[immense]

Haven't checked and I probably should before I post but can't be bothered. Have you altered the description of Discuss Anything to make it unequivocal that Discuss Anything does include posts about food/drink and pets?

[Richie]

Oh and I'd like to add:


The animal and drink sections were more popular than forums such as

http://www.habboxforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=249
http://www.habboxforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=214
http://www.habboxforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=73

[Hecktix]

Current Description:

Discuss Anything

(4 Viewing)
General Discussion that doesn't fit anywhere else
Please ensure that there is nowhere else that your topic will be more suited

As usual I'm open to suggestions should users think this should change

---------- Post added 06-09-2010 at 01:00 AM ----------

Oh and I'd like to add:


The animal and drink sections were more popular than forums such as

http://www.habboxforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=249
http://www.habboxforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=214
http://www.habboxforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=73

First one - First page covers posts from 22-08-10
Second one -First page covers posts from 22-08-10

These two are considerably more active than Food & Drink and Animals & Pets which spanned back to late June and Mid July respectively.

Anime Forum - this is about as inactive as they were, however I don't think Anime would fit into Discuss Anything Can you think of anywhere it would fit Richie?