Habbox.com: User System Features Ideas Thread

[xxMATTGxx]

We need your ideas! Basically we've been thinking on how we could improve the user system on Habbox.com in Version 7. As at the moment the user system on the current Habbox site is pretty pointless apart from if you are staff member who needs to use the site to do their role. So if you have any serious suggestions/ideas that could be used for Habbox and would be great features to give to users who have accounts on the main site then post below. If the ideas are possible and sound great then they will most likely be used in V7.

While we can get your ideas about what you want to see in the next version of Habbox we just want to concentrate on peoples suggestions that they have for the user system for the site at this moment in time.

So all you have to do is post them in this thread!

Short Version: Got suggestions for the user system on Habbox.com for V7? Post below.

[Lee]

How about merging the forum into V7, so we access the forum via habbox.com? Would be a tricky job and require lots of consultation but hey **, it's a suggestion

[David]

How about merging the forum into V7, so we access the forum via habbox.com? Would be a tricky job and require lots of consultation but hey **, it's a suggestion

what about be the point though, there would be a link in the nav bar (I imagine) to take you to the full forum..
Linking the accounts would be good though , I heard jin was supposed to do that but never?

[Chippiewill]

How about merging the forum into V7, so we access the forum via habbox.com? Would be a tricky job and require lots of consultation but hey **, it's a suggestion

I've actually mentioned a joint-account system to Recursion. The issue is that then Habbox.com has to keep up with VB updates and undoing it down the line could be problematic. Further, security becomes a MASSIVE issue as soon as you have them both running off the same MySQL database and I would be suspect of any merged system.

Most of all it just isn't really needed.

Edit: Of all features I just want page navigation to work efficiently, the current page loader is terrible.

[Tom]

Right, I've already told you these on Skype when you asked, but here we go:

Firstly, profiles which were planned for V6, to finally be released to the public in V7! with profiles the following could come:

- Something like Facebook like 'post a status' and the ability to like, comment and perhaps unlike?
- Private messaging (as well of on the forum)
- Maybe some sort of points system. So if you win something at an event or on HxL you can also have the option of getting points or something like that. Then you collect points and eventually you will get enough to obtain things like coloured usernames on Habbox (not the forum).

Yeah, that's what I've said so far to you quite a while back. I'll think of some more things.

[lawrawrrr]

Links between hxf profiles and hx.com profiles, and make the latter actually activated so users can have their habbox hompages!

[Kieran]

I've actually mentioned a joint-account system to Recursion. The issue is that then Habbox.com has to keep up with VB updates and undoing it down the line could be problematic. Further, security becomes a MASSIVE issue as soon as you have them both running off the same MySQL database and I would be suspect of any merged system.

Most of all it just isn't really needed.

Edit: Of all features I just want page navigation to work efficiently, the current page loader is terrible.

Page navigation will definitely work in V7. No need to worry about that!

Right, I've already told you these on Skype when you asked, but here we go:

Firstly, profiles which were planned for V6, to finally be released to the public in V7! with profiles the following could come:

- Something like Facebook like 'post a status' and the ability to like, comment and perhaps unlike?
- Private messaging (as well of on the forum)
- Maybe some sort of points system. So if you win something at an event or on HxL you can also have the option of getting points or something like that. Then you collect points and eventually you will get enough to obtain things like coloured usernames on Habbox (not the forum).

Yeah, that's what I've said so far to you quite a while back. I'll think of some more things.

I quite like all of those ideas Tom. We'll see what we can do!

[Chippiewill]

It would be pretty nice to have more variation on images betwen pages and categories, so for instance maybe different banner images for news, habboxlive etc.

Page navigation will definitely work in V7. No need to worry about that!

Am I right in thinking that there'll actually be some sort of caching also?

[Kieran]

It would be pretty nice to have more variation on images betwen pages and categories, so for instance maybe different banner images for news, habboxlive etc.


Am I right in thinking that there'll actually be some sort of caching also?

I believe @Recursion; will be working with the caching. We can certainly have different banners for different sections of the site.

[Recursion]

How about merging the forum into V7, so we access the forum via habbox.com? Would be a tricky job and require lots of consultation but hey **, it's a suggestion

I've actually mentioned a joint-account system to Recursion. The issue is that then Habbox.com has to keep up with VB updates and undoing it down the line could be problematic. Further, security becomes a MASSIVE issue as soon as you have them both running off the same MySQL database and I would be suspect of any merged system.

Most of all it just isn't really needed.

Edit: Of all features I just want page navigation to work efficiently, the current page loader is terrible.

What Chippie says. The amount of active accounts on Habbox Forum far outweighs the active accounts on Habbox.com (as we could tell by who ran through the forced password reset recently) and I wouldn't be willing to risk the security implications of users who didn't even use the site... also the site's user system will be heavily based off your Habbo name, so it doesn't really work if your forum name is different to that of your Habbo's.

It would be pretty nice to have more variation on images betwen pages and categories, so for instance maybe different banner images for news, habboxlive etc.


Am I right in thinking that there'll actually be some sort of caching also?

I'm already working on server side caching.