I have 2 ideas

[Rachel]

My first idea is we should have a section on the forum about food/drink.
My second is we should have a chat box on top of the forum or something.

[GommeInc]

My first idea is we should have a section on the forum about food/drink.
My second is we should have a chat box on top of the forum or something.

These have been implemented before and didn't really work

1. Food and drink are rarely talked about, and now come under Discuss Anything. There once was a Food/Drink forum but it had barely any activity. There's not much to talk about

2. Chatrooms/Shoutboxes don't work, no one really uses them. The last time one was added to the forum it got used for about a day and then nobody used it as the forums are more interesting. They're also incredibly difficult to use on the front of a forum given the large amount of activity the forum gets. Your posts will be lost in the mix of other replies and the lag they sometimes give off is horrific

[Sharon]

Also the chatbox idea, I swear we used to have one and it got removed in the end as no-one used it, it always broke and it was some extra expansive or something.

[GommeInc]

Also the chatbox idea, I swear we used to have one and it got removed in the end as no-one used it, it always broke and it was some extra expansive or something.

The last one added was pretty reliable and it was the only time I saw managers and management be dirty and get away with it. The only problem was people got bored and preferred what the threads in the forums had to offer. They're a novelty item at best

[Catzsy]

Well it is nice to see a new member jumping in with ideas! +Rep on that. I think chat boxes do work in some forums but Habbo is quite unique really and it didn't really work on here for whatever reason, I don't know. The forum did get quite large with many forums and it was getting harder to navigate so the least popular ones were pruned and merged into 'Discuss Anything' and it does seem to work quite well. Keep coming back with the ideas though.

[Phil]

I think a shoutbox at the top of the forum wouldn't work but although this isn't possible, it'd be cool to have a shout box at the top of each staff forum.

[Stephen]

Everynight I still poke a pin in my voodoo copy of management for getting rid of the food and drink forum

[FlyingJesus]

Chatbox may have worked back when we had it if the comps and events teams had actually got involved with sparking interest in it like they always said they would (akin to the "we're having big changes next month!" that we heard from comps for about a year) but now I don't think there's any call for it at all. It was only ever really used for e-rebz to get away with swearing as Ryan said

Food&drink forum never really had anything other than "I LIKE ______ DO YOU LIKE ______" threads which aren't exactly wonderful discussion. If anyone has good recipes or big food topics to share that's wonderful but they can fit fine in Discuss Anything for now

[GommeInc]

e-rebz to get away with swearing as Ryan said

I said no such thing That said, the swear filter was lousy. Penis was filtered but vagina was most welcome... Sexist swear filter :@

[Stephen]

it would of been cool if quizzes and stuff were done in the chat for vip etc but it was just left to die. I don't think there was even an attempt to get people using it more was there? or is my memory crap