Anyone remember when AKP looked like this 🤔

IDK I first ever was here in 2018

and that layout was the best so far since nobody put random stuff on the right side (wich blocks half of the page for no fucking reason)

wow

it's so ugly

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wow

it's so ugly

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I was just going to say

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I was just going to say

We share the same braincell my love

was this after the makeover circa 2012? i think that time was the ugliest version of allkpop lol

Yup and that was an “update”. That was AKP’s heydays ahaha.

It did look uglier than that before.

2010 was worse….

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And was even uglier before this. lol.

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was this after the makeover circa 2012? i think that time was the ugliest version of allkpop lol

Pre 2012 akp was ugly lol.

Also at that time Allkpop was behind s00mpi and slightly ahead of Koreab00. Not sure if those sites are still relevant now.

I'm not that old of an AKP user...and I only became a KPOP fan in 2020

interesting

Only Drew_B can remember those 2nd gen times.

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I think they still are

I know s00mpi had the biggest kpop forum during that time, but I hated how basic their layout was. Very ATRL’ish. But then looking at their new layout now, I prefer the old one.

Yes.

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BTW anyone remember AKP's 2013/14 look as well (I also wasn't there back then but still I managed to find some gems dating from that era through the Wayback Machine )

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Yeah, the 2013 revamp is what made me migrate to another Kpop forum. That layout was terrible.

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Yeah, the 2013 revamp is what made me migrate to another Kpop forum. That layout was terrible.

omg same. I fell out of kpop in general during this time and that revamp didn’t help.

Which is weird since I moved to Southeast Asia in 2013/2014 when the kpop fandom in that region started getting even bigger.

Then when I moved back to America in 2018 all of a sudden all these big new groups like NCT were big, then BTS was in an american tv show. I was like wtf did I miss for 4 years?

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BTW anyone remember AKP's 2013/14 look as well (I also wasn't there back then but still I managed to find some gems dating from that era through the Wayback Machine )

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Oh, I remember this.

And I remember that I used to make a lot of memes in that Meme Center.

Wished we still had the 411 subforum with all the introduction threads.

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I assume you were the queen of AKP memes then

Yeah I think so too

I'll probs go tell some mod about it then

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Ves  johnny  superyeah It may sound like a stretch but I think it wouldn't mind if you guys could consider bringing the 411/Introductions section back as a subforum of the AKP Lounge bc I've heard of someone who still thinks about it after all those years of being an AKPer

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The 411 section was a good icebreaker for new members to feel welcomed.

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I assume you were the queen of AKP memes then

Kind of.

And I was the one, who put this "Well excuse me?" caption.

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Only Drew_B can remember those 2nd gen times.

I think DrewB got into kpop during 3rd gen era but he prefers 1st and 2nd gen kpop

Yes I do remember. I've been kicking around this site for a long time. It was a better layout imo.

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Yes I do remember. I've been kicking around this site for a long time. It was a better layout imo.

I don’t know if it’s just me but the forum also seemed way more active back in 2010-2012 despite having more members now.

i just entered primary school in 2012...what...

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I don’t know if it’s just me but the forum also seemed way more active back in 2010-2012 despite having more members now.

I wasn't on the forum back then but have been reading the article section since 2012.

It was so ugly lmao

I am an akp user since 2019 so nope and I am glad I wasn't before lmao the layout was horrible

I didn't pay attention to the layout, so I have no idea what it looked like