What could Habbox do with/without?

[Kyle]

There are currently ~9 departments of habbox:-
- Forum
- Comps
- Articles
- Help Desk
- Radio
- Content
- Rare Values
- Graphics
- Events

Over the years some have changed drastically and some have remained relatively still in areas in terms of any kind of remodeling. Are there any aspects of any of the above departments that you feel have grown stagnant? Any that have been removed in the past but would be welcome back with open arms? And of course, since feedback shouldn't always be negative, are there any current features that you absolutely love? Show some appreciation!

Choose a department or two... or three... or all of them, and say what you think works, what you think doesn't, and what could be added or removed to improve them from your own perspective.

+rep to all useful suggestions!

[Lewis]

There are currently ~8 departments of habbox:-
- Forum
- Comps
- Articles
- Help Desk
- Radio
- Content
- Rare Values
- Graphics

Over the years some have changed drastically and some have remained relatively still in areas in terms of any kind of remodeling. Are there any aspects of any of the above departments that you feel have grown stagnant? Any that have been removed in the past but would be welcome back with open arms? And of course, since feedback shouldn't always be negative, are there any current features that you absolutely love? Show some appreciation!

Choose a department or two... or three... or all of them, and say what you think works, what you think doesn't, and what could be added or removed to improve them from your own perspective.

you're forgetting events

[Kyle]

you're forgetting events

not hard to do.
fixed.

[The Don]

Merge rare values with content

[lawrawrrr]

Merge rare values with content

how?! they're completely different!

[scottish]

There are currently ~9 departments of habbox:-
- Forum
- Comps
- Articles
- Help Desk
- Radio
- Content
- Rare Values
- Graphics
- Events

I would scrap articles and merge it with content. Scrap RV and merge it with content.

So within Content people would be assigned a role (posting crap on hx.com, updating wiki, updating rare values).

At a push, scrap graphics and merge it with content.

There's more depts now than there were a few years ago lol, and some depts are just becoming ridiculous like HxHD on what 18 staff or something? at it's peak I don't think we even had that many...

[Samantha]

I would scrap articles and merge it with content. Scrap RV and merge it with content.

So within Content people would be assigned a role (posting crap on hx.com, updating wiki, updating rare values).

At a push, scrap graphics and merge it with content.

There's more depts now than there were a few years ago lol, and some depts are just becoming ridiculous like HxHD on what 18 staff or something? at it's peak I don't think we even had that many...

Articles, Content and Graphics were merged a few years ago - it didn't work as News Reporters were forced to do Content Design work and vice versa. Although I don't think a merge is really necessary anymore (nor was it back then) as it wasn't believed that there are different ways to write depending on what department you work for.

If it went ahead and all content side departments were merged you might as well merge Competitions and Events like some other fansites, as one does forum events the other does client.

[The Don]

Articles, Content and Graphics were merged a few years ago - it didn't work as News Reporters were forced to do Content Design work and vice versa. Although I don't think a merge is really necessary anymore (nor was it back then) as it wasn't believed that there are different ways to write depending on what department you work for.

If it went ahead and all content side departments were merged you might as well merge Competitions and Events like some other fansites, as one does forum events the other does client.

You could keep the separate roles but just have them under one department.

[lawrawrrr]

People have been saying merge News and Content for ages, but really it's such a different writing style it'd just get confusing! A lot of people in Content aren't creative enough to write in articles style and Articles staff are very creative and the Wiki ends up like a big story rather than a fact encyclopaedia. Graphics just doesn't work merged at all as designing graphics is a very specific skill that not a lot of people have. Seems a bit pointless to merge just for the sake of it, I don't really see much point!

I know in the past it was thought of because of a lack of managers (and managers with multiple skills), not 100% on Skynus' reasoning for the actual merge as I wasn't really around then IIRC, but we've got 3 dedicated, good managers now!

[scottish]

Articles, Content and Graphics were merged a few years ago - it didn't work as News Reporters were forced to do Content Design work and vice versa. Although I don't think a merge is really necessary anymore (nor was it back then) as it wasn't believed that there are different ways to write depending on what department you work for.

If it went ahead and all content side departments were merged you might as well merge Competitions and Events like some other fansites, as one does forum events the other does client.

Simple, don't.

Articles, Content and Graphics are all 'content' in a sense and there's no need for 3 different departments when it could be 1 department with different roles. So if you join as a graphics person you won't be forced to do articles or content design.

Problem with comp/events is different perms. Articles Content and Graphics won't have different perms on the forum I wouldn't imagine as they do nothing on the forum (aside from staff forum perms)