News integration on forum

[FlyingJesus]

So talking to @Inkwell; today he believes that all the feedback on this idea was negative. From what I can see the only negative feedback was people who didn't originally understand what was being proposed, and that otherwise there were only seen to be good things to come from this. It's been months and months since this was first given the go-ahead by Matt and all feedback from people who've actually read and understood it (including news staff and management) points to it being worthwhile, yet today I was told that in the anonymous news feedback that no-one ever saw a few people said they read news but don't use the forum and that in the manager's eyes is reason enough to completely do away with plans to bring the community closer and make discussion on news articles something that actually occurs.

It requires no coding and very little extra effort on the part of staff, and would not only potentially bring new people to the forum but (importantly, if news is to carry on claiming that it's a real department) get more people reading the articles and having discussions about them. We don't have compulsory registration on the forum so anyone who just wants to read and not join in can still do so, there is literally no reason not to go ahead with this other than management stalling because it means doing some work

[xxMATTGxx]

So talking to @Inkwell; today he believes that all the feedback on this idea was negative. From what I can see the only negative feedback was people who didn't originally understand what was being proposed, and that otherwise there were only seen to be good things to come from this. It's been months and months since this was first given the go-ahead by Matt and all feedback from people who've actually read and understood it (including news staff and management) points to it being worthwhile, yet today I was told that in the anonymous news feedback that no-one ever saw a few people said they read news but don't use the forum and that in the manager's eyes is reason enough to completely do away with plans to bring the community closer and make discussion on news articles something that actually occurs.

It requires no coding and very little extra effort on the part of staff, and would not only potentially bring new people to the forum but (importantly, if news is to carry on claiming that it's a real department) get more people reading the articles and having discussions about them. We don't have compulsory registration on the forum so anyone who just wants to read and not join in can still do so, there is literally no reason not to go ahead with this other than management stalling because it means doing some work

Sounds like management are stalling or don't have a clue how it works again considering what has just been said on skype.

Edit: Sorted it. Inkwell/Tom should be doing something about it now.

[Grig]

I have always been for the idea, as long as the site articles remain with not glitches and are identical, i.e. doesn't post multiple threads of the same news article like it did when we had the bot, which was completely different. It should have the forum aspect and would be great. My only issue is that the department will be a step too slow and that people on the forum would post news two times quicker than the department. The only ways to counter this is either doing news much quicker or making it more detailed, which isn't only the case because quite often you would get people paraphrasing stuff.

Those concerns aside, I've always been for implementing this idea (albeit for a trial basis initially), as it's popular on other fansites and would make news from the department read by a greater audience.

[Zelda]

Basically what we have decided on is that there will be links to the habbo news & rumours threads on the articles for each of the reports and telling people to visit etc (making threads ourselves if there aint already one)

[Lewis]

Basically what we have decided on is that there will be links to the habbo news & rumours threads on the articles for each of the reports and telling people to visit etc (making threads ourselves if there aint already one)

I've honestly never seen the point of reading habbo news when we have it on the forum (habbo news/rumours). Especially by how slow and laggy the main site is. . However, I would most definitely look at rare values and news reports if we revert back to V5.

BRING BACK V5.
MAKE V7 THE GREAT V5.
BRING BACK V5!