2026.06.30 ~ 2026.07.10
We are rebuilding allkpop, and we would rather do it with your honest input than our own best guesses. So we will ask you straight: what was the most frustrating thing about the old allkpop for you?
Maybe one of these sounds like you.
Maybe the comment section wore you down. Too many trolls, too much noise, not enough of the real conversation you came for. Maybe the layout felt cluttered, and you never quite knew where to look. Maybe the coverage drifted from what you actually cared about, until checking in stopped feeling worth it. Or maybe it is something we have not even thought to ask about.
Whatever it is, tell us in the comments, and tell us why.
"I stopped reading because the front page was the same five groups every day" gives us something real to work with. A lot of what you say here is going to turn into changes you can follow in Lab Notes.
This is the part that matters most to us, so do not hold back. Help us build the allkpop you actually want.
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What happened to My username? I don’t like this one. I hope I can login with my old account I’ve had for years and worked hard building up.
The new website looks so bland and boring 🥱
I have 3 major points of feedback. 1: Trolls in the comments are ridiculous. You have obvious trolls that spam articles in exactly the same way over and over, especially on Hybe groups (Illit, Le Sserafim, Cortis, TxT, etc) and on other agencies groups as well at times, leaving the majority of comments because most people stopped engaging with allkpop (including myself) due to the rampant troll behavior and lack of active moderators. You will not have a thriving community with uncontrolled trolling behavior, and thus far it seems that the only feedback the staff is listening to is the feedback from the trolls based off of responses on the initial rollout article that was posted and replies seen. I personally never logged back in (until now to provide this feedback) after the last shift happened because it is not worth engaging since no real discourse can happen, ever, until the trolls are actively banned and CONTINUE to be so, instead of once in a blue moon purging a few accounts and then ignoring the immediate creation of multiple replacements by the same people (and yes, the average user know they are the same people and literally say exactly the same things). This has been an ongoing issue for years, and until allkpop allows real moderators, no matter how everything else is restructured, the community will stagnate. Recommend allowing volunteer community moderators, with identity verification requirement to be one to prevent trolls from disrupting/controlling discourse. This also includes the accounts pretending to be other users that regularly pop up 2. Too many fluff pieces all the time - "global dominance" doesn't mean what allkpop uses it for, fluff pieces in general for nothing, etc. Great that there needs to be a variety, but having copy paste fluff pieces with no originality or actual news from group to group with no real information devalues the site for people looking for actual relevant news or content. Recommend upon the restructure to allow filtering of fluff pieces by categorizing better - "news" is not "X showed their global popularity by placing first for 1 day/weeks on one chart in one country and top 10 in 9 more". Same goes for overuse of other adjectives and repeated fluff that is called news because someone uploaded a selfie and people said they are pretty... that is not news. By not correctly categorizing content, and not allowing filtering to relevant to user content, more things just get scrolled past. 3. Author bias and lack of editing oversight. It is obvious that most articles are grabbed, AI translated, and posted without both editing and fact checking. When member names, group names, company names, etc are spelled wrong, wrong person referenced, and facts don't match it becomes a problem. The bias portion is also very obvious - especially when something interesting does start occuring it is very visible that multiple articles are created as rage bait and many things framed as fact before verification, spreading misinformation and author driven bias in the name of clicks, without retraction or apology later when it comes out what is/isn't actually true. Site authors also do not check to see what has been previously posted, often having multiple articles saying the same things on the same topic posted a few hours apart showing a lack of editorial controls. Another tie to obvious bias habits of some authors is the visible structure of first posting some news, and shortly after creating multiple articles on it with "netizens say" and looking to specific places for either positive or negative comments to support the author's bias (utilizing a confirmation bias strategy) without actually looking for relevant balance or doing any analysis. Anyone can cherry pick confirmation bias comments, but it lowers the value of trying to be a relevant or trusted place of information. As an adult and a technical program manager for a space company where I perform a lot of analysis and technical writing, I see allkpop as an untrustworthy source with a habit of catering to trolls and lack of ethical news awareness. I do check in to see if any interesting topics come up, but then go to other places to find out what is actually going on because of this. Until some things are corrected, ESPECIALLY the trolls, that is all I can see AllKpop being.
You need to strictly monitor those who cyberbully and ruthlessly attack idols in the worst ways possible, only to play the victim the moment their own favorites are targeted. Idols are completely detached from their fans' petty drama, but fans themselves need to stop crossing the line. Just because you hate a specific idol doesn't mean they are bad; the issue is within you, not them. They are on a whole different level, which clearly triggers your own inferiority complex It is unfair to support haters just because you found an ally with the same biased, toxic taste. They constantly drag each other over numbers and charts, treating idols like robots rather than human beings. They brag as if they are on the same level as their favorites, but when you reach a point where you wish the worst upon others, you don't even deserve to be a fan, and your group would never be proud of you because you violate their entire core values Idols respect one another, unlike these clueless fans who turned something beautiful into a toxic swamp. You must ban these sick minds; they see K-pop as a warzone and a source of selfish entertainment through hurting others, completely forgetting that it’s supposed to be about the music
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I think engagement with legitimate fans and including them in some articles would help. Maybe exclusive Zoom/invite only opportunities for fans to express how and why Kpop is important and how it is impacting the industry would relay a more authentic perspective. A guest article written by a fan or even a live Q&A stream would be awesome. The trolls. Rage baiting. Incomplete reporting all for the sake of reporting it first hurts your credibility. It feels like a tabloid instead of informative journalism. Lastly, there needs to be more respect and transparency shown to international fans. With proper vetting, there can be invaluable contributions to allKpop. Special (fan) correspondents who are actually attending concerts and other events providing first hand experiences. There’s nothing wrong with a bit of gossip here and there but if you had a couple of fans documenting their ACTUAL event experiences, so long as it is done with decorum, the response to your articles could be less hostile. “Netizens upset because XYZ celebrity didn’t thank the doorman who held the door open at the hotel they were staying at” is a terrible waste of time for the sake of fan engagement. We don’t care.
There is no moderation, so trolls have run rampant under the articles. Since the move to the new comments system two years ago, the community dispersed and did not return, unfortunately. I used to have a lot of discussion with other users, but there is now no private messaging, and it has fallen apart. Quite often an article will show a dozen comments, but they are all the same troll, just putting on one line irrelevant comments about a group they hate. I've tried reporting the comments, but there appears to be no moderation and nothing gets done about them. The other problems is lifting gossip articles from other sites, accuracy is more miss than hit, and articles are very often duplicated. There is no way of reporting inaccuracies, pressing the report button apparently does nothing. I tried using the Forum, but I can't create threads, and it appears unusable, it's impossible to find the text with all the flashing gifs and other images people have in their signatures. It's dreadful.
the forum is completely unusable. The formatting makes it impossible to read posts comfortably. It needs a massive UI overhaul...
