Forum going down hill?

[Plank]

Just came back after a while and this place seems so lifeless compared to what it used to be. Like just in general the threads on the first pages of forums go back to days/weeks.

Unless I'm just imagining things

For example the UK News and Rumours forum... pretty much dead. Threads have only a few posts in them and go back over 1 week on the first page.

Spam forum... threads go back to wednesday when I remember it being overflowing with threads/posts

Feedback forum seems to have the same old threads in it and they go back to and they go back 2 weeks!! , there have been hardly any updates/changes except the odd rule since I left, staff hardly post any more......

[Jin]

I have noticed this also, currently we are also having a problem with "Forum is going DOWN"

That's what I am currently working on at the moment. It would be nice if my GM would come back from leave.....

[-:Undertaker:-]

I agree, and Habbox needs to go back to hotel-related stuff if its to survive because once the numbers are lost then it'll be very hard to get them back. On the values side; the Rare Values Desk is struggling, shop/casino owners no longer put Habbox.com in their descriptions - not looking good.

[GommeInc]

Maybe one generation of forum users is slowly dying out? Could be something simple like that. Habbox went through quite a boom of users when Habbo was very popular when they actually took notice of their fansites - Habbox got noticed, then a mixture of Habbo users joined with similar ideas, hobbies, interests and personality, as well as a heap of conflicting ideas causing interesting arguments and debates. It could be something simple like that, the original Habbo generation is slowly leaving (because Habbo is of no interest to them, and the forum slowly loses its appeal; possible due to most things seemingly governed by it).

It's mentioned in my book available in all good stores, "Gomme's Big Book Of Habbox". Catchy

I agree, and Habbox needs to go back to hotel-related stuff if its to survive because once the numbers are lost then it'll be very hard to get them back. On the values side; the Rare Values Desk is struggling, shop/casino owners no longer put Habbox.com in their descriptions - not looking good.

What do they put? Maybe Habbox has had too much time in the rare value limelight? There were alot of issues of "made up" values quite a while ago, it wouldn't be surprising if people just ended up going off Habbox and going else where.

[Black_Apalachi]

The two examples given in the OP: Habbo UK News & Rumours and Spam.

News & Rumours kind of depends on what's going on in Habbo, the forum can hardly be blamed for that. As Gomme said, the whole generation that made up the soul of Habbox for a long time has slowly mixed with a newer generation. Many of the old names have long gone and there's only a fair few of us left. I don't even think Habbox is a big deal amongst the general users of Habbo these days. Purely because they are much younger than we were as Habbo is marketed at a younger audience than it used to be.

Spam, as well as the rest of the forum, may be suffering because of exam season. I know my brother has mocks and I've got a couple of exams coming up at uni. While the whole forum may suffer from this, Spam is the one place people post in through boredom when they have too much spare time, so if they've got exams, they are probably less likely to do so.

The current situation of management is another thing to consider. At the moment, Jin is filling the role of Owner, General Manager and Technical Manager amongst other things. Two Community Managers have also disappeared as of late so temporary replacements have had to be found for them. Then there's various managerial shake-ups that have happened recently within a few departments.

Oh and of course the internet god that is Immenseman is banned. Couldn't finish this post without a nice big suck-up to him could I.

[Titch]

Its cus jakes banned, its just no the same without him.

[hah]

Its cus jakes banned, its just no the same without him.

he should stay banned, dont think ive seen an argument in a month... all his private joke with other users have stopped also

and yeah i agree, new skins, new more SIMPLER and less clutteredHabbox design and relaunch the forum in the new year or something lol

[iDenning]

We have more guests than members, put a limit of how many threads a guest can view before having to register. Then they will want to post.

[hah]

ye the forums gets loads comming on just no one posts

[skooledmepls]

Rare Values has been wrong for a long time, items should be pressed on rarity, because at the moment, values are being changed from mostly people trying to sell things for more to bump up the Habbox price. Some of the Habbox RVR's make up prices, for them to either get profit in their items or just to produce their 6 reports a week... You should base it more on the rarity, like thrones shouldn't be anywhere near as high as 80.0 IMO... And things like Russian samovar's are VERY rarely seen in Habbo IMO, they're price should be much higher...

And with HxL, they're used to be over 130 listeners regularly, now there's rarely even 100...