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I tried posting this thread the other day the forum came back up and I literally wrote a few thousand words but there was a glitch when I pressed "Post New Topic" and I lost my entire body of text that I literally poured my heart and soul into (of course that would happen). 

 

So here I am to try this again in several parts...

 

First I want to start off by saying, I'm not a particularly prominent user on OH by any means, but I've been a faithful member since May 2013, over 6 years ago. Before that, I was an OG Soompi user, witnessed the rise and fall of Soompi, moved to Alllkpop forums, watched it crash and burn there, and between then, jumped from forum to forum (including Hallyu8 and even Soshified) before I finally settled into OneHallyu when it was first created. I used to go by a common alias on all these forums known as "AnthonyKkoKko". Some of you might remember me. 

 

I'm more or less grown up now (I'm 24, I was 18 when I first joined), and I have so many memories on this forum. Whether it's the people I met in the Official Vocals Thread, where I made friendships and met mentors that helped improve my singing over the years, the covers I've posted there; the memorable threads I've participated in or started, like my "Do you think there are any cliques or conflicts in EXO?" thread; all the old threads and old comments that made me laugh, or cry, or even made me angry; the petty forum drama; the threads I'd go to for updates on my favourite artists. 

 

This was the place I go, when I wanted to escape my adult responsibilities for just a little, and feel young and nostalgic, like the teenager I was that wanted to become a Kpop idol. Sometimes when I'm on break at work. When I'm in line for coffee. In bed, before I go to sleep.

 

I was one of the very first users of OH and to this day, it feels like my Internet home. And I'm sure almost all of OH's users can share my sentiments.

 

I'd like to say, to the founder(s) of this forum and all the admins and staff that have helped keep OH alive over the years - thank you.


But after so many server failures, forum crashes, bugs, hacks, random blackouts, and several scares of the forum shutting down permanently without any warning or updates - is infuriating. It's absolutely ridiculous how a huge forum like this with so many active users around the world, online traffic, and probably a very high website revenue from advertisements because of that, and has been the #1 Kpop forum for 6 YEARS, be so unreliable, insensitive, and so unapologetic about putting its thousands and thousands of users in the dark about what's going on. 

 

Please, stop taking your users for granted. 

 

There's really no excuse. If we need better servers or a better host, they should have been switched over YEARS ago when the site was growing. If we need more money for them now, I'm sure many users, myself included, would be more than willing to donate money to make it happen. Unforunately, the window for that has passed, but you could still try. If a better staff or a better team is needed, again, those changes should have been made YEARS ago. The forum shouldn't be in the hands of a single person, or a few people. Because like what happened this time, they could go AWOL at any ANY GIVEN TIME for whatever reason, and JUST LIKE THAT, the forum is gone. There needs to be precautions. There needs to be a Plan B, a Plan C, a Plan D, hell, a Plan fucking Z for what COULD happen in a given scenario. I understand that volunteers run this forum. But has it ever occurred to anyone to maybe start paying people to work here part-time, so that there isn't a reliability issue? 

 

And if the site is really dying - let us know. I don't want to sound like an entitled bitch, but we deserve to know when this forum is shutting down so that at the very least, we can SAVE the pictures, the videos, the threads, the conversations, hell, the COMMENTS on this forum that have been and are important to us, or that we've given sentiment to. There are ENTIRE COMMUNITIES and SUB-COMMUNITIES on this forum that NEED TIME TO COORDINATE AND RELOCATE. At the very least, can we at least get an official statement or an announcement of some sort?

 

OH is literally being treated like Pristin by Pledis. 

 

A lot of people love OH, and it really saddens me to see it go down like this. I have faith that it can recover - but clearly, BIG changes need to be made, and I hope they are, but it's not looking like it. And it's so frustrating that I can't do anything about it except watch it crash and burn. 

 

If OH dies - RIP. It was a good run.

 

And SNSD OT9 4ever.

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if OH dies TVXQ is yunho and changmin


 


and if it doesn't tvxq is still yunho and changmin


 



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Please, stop taking your users for granted. 

 

There's really no excuse. If we need better servers or a better host, they should have been switched over YEARS ago when the site was growing. If we need more money for them now, I'm sure many users, myself included, would be more than willing to donate money to make it happen. Unforunately, the window for that has passed, but you could still try. If a better staff or a better team is needed, again, those changes should have been made YEARS ago. The forum shouldn't be in the hands of a single person, or a few people. Because like what happened this time, they could go AWOL at any ANY GIVEN TIME for whatever reason, and JUST LIKE THAT, the forum is gone. There needs to be precautions. There needs to be a Plan B, a Plan C, a Plan D, hell, a Plan fucking Z for what COULD happen in a given scenario. I understand that volunteers run this forum. But has it ever occurred to anyone to maybe start paying people to work here part-time, so that there isn't a reliability issue? 

 

And if the site is really dying - let us know. I don't want to sound like an entitled bitch, but we deserve to know when this forum is shutting down so that at the very least, we can SAVE the pictures, the videos, the threads, the conversations, hell, the COMMENTS on this forum that have been and are important to us, or that we've given sentiment to. There are ENTIRE COMMUNITIES and SUB-COMMUNITIES on this forum that NEED TIME TO COORDINATE AND RELOCATE. At the very least, can we at least get an official statement or an announcement of some sort?

I just want to clarify that we are in no way taking the users for granted, and I apologize if that's the impression we have given. Honestly the only reason I am still here at all on OH, and I'm still trying to the best of my abilities is because the users, staff, and community deserve so much more than this. 

 

Sad is the sole owner of OH. As such he has the control over the money, and our hosting/server/licensing/etc... I agree we need a new server, host, software upgrade etc... but unfortunately it's not as easy as the staff/community just wanting this. We've been asking for this for a long time now. If I had any updates to give in regard to that I would, but it's not within my power to make those changes. I truly believe and hope those changes are forthcoming though, but in the meantime we're trying to work with what we have to the best of our abilities. The site isn't dying in the sense that we are going to disappear permanently (this stupid server is paid up), but from what I do know the host has been experiencing some issues, and randomly taking our site down over their own auto-perceived threats to our site, which sad has been fighting with them over each and every time. Our host, (which no one should be shocked by at this point) does not have the best customer service, and thus we get caught in limbo waiting for them to put us back online at some point between what I can only assume are their 24 hour discussions of dust settling, and server kicking. 

 

OH is still here and fighting, I'm still here and fighting, and I sincerely hope the community is as well, because we've come a long way over these years, and we deserve more years to come.

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I just want to clarify that we are in no way taking the users for granted, and I apologize if that's the impression we have given. Honestly the only reason I am still here at all on OH, and I'm still trying to the best of my abilities is because the users, staff, and community deserve so much more than this. 

 

Sad is the sole owner of OH. As such he has the control over the money, and our hosting/server/licensing/etc... I agree we need a new server, host, software upgrade etc... but unfortunately it's not as easy as the staff/community just wanting this. We've been asking for this for a long time now. If I had any updates to give in regard to that I would, but it's not within my power to make those changes. I truly believe and hope those changes are forthcoming though, but in the meantime we're trying to work with what we have to the best of our abilities. The site isn't dying in the sense that we are going to disappear permanently (this stupid server is paid up), but from what I do know the host has been experiencing some issues, and randomly taking our site down over their own auto-perceived threats to our site, which sad has been fighting with them over each and every time. Our host, (which no should be shocked by at this point) does not have the best customer service, and thus we get caught in limbo waiting for them to put us back online at some point between what I can only assume are their 24 hour discussions of dust settling, and server kicking. 

 

OH is still here and fighting, I'm still here and fighting, and I sincerely hope the community is as well, because we've come a long way over these years, and we deserve more years to come.

 

so basically the owner no longer gives a shit and leave us all on the dust (including staff)

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so basically the owner no longer gives a shit and leave us all on the dust (including staff)

 

That wasn't what I meant at all. Sad has been much more responsive and active as of late. As I mentioned he's been the one fighting our server company continuously with our latest issues. The owner is, however, the only one that can take us to the next step in regards to server, hosting, etc... and as I said I do have hope and believe that those changes are forthcoming. I just wanted to clarify that issue, because I know myself and a lot of the other staff get messages from users who are justifiably upset we're still on this tin can we call a hosting company, but some things just aren't within our ability as staff to change. There is a proposal in place for server changes created by the tech admins though. I'm still here, because I truly have hope and believe that there will be changes for the better. 

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I just want to clarify that we are in no way taking the users for granted, and I apologize if that's the impression we have given. Honestly the only reason I am still here at all on OH, and I'm still trying to the best of my abilities is because the users, staff, and community deserve so much more than this. 

 

Sad is the sole owner of OH. As such he has the control over the money, and our hosting/server/licensing/etc... I agree we need a new server, host, software upgrade etc... but unfortunately it's not as easy as the staff/community just wanting this. We've been asking for this for a long time now. If I had any updates to give in regard to that I would, but it's not within my power to make those changes. I truly believe and hope those changes are forthcoming though, but in the meantime we're trying to work with what we have to the best of our abilities. The site isn't dying in the sense that we are going to disappear permanently (this stupid server is paid up), but from what I do know the host has been experiencing some issues, and randomly taking our site down over their own auto-perceived threats to our site, which sad has been fighting with them over each and every time. Our host, (which no one should be shocked by at this point) does not have the best customer service, and thus we get caught in limbo waiting for them to put us back online at some point between what I can only assume are their 24 hour discussions of dust settling, and server kicking. 

 

OH is still here and fighting, I'm still here and fighting, and I sincerely hope the community is as well, because we've come a long way over these years, and we deserve more years to come.

That wasn't what I meant at all. Sad has been much more responsive and active as of late. As I mentioned he's been the one fighting our server company continuously with our latest issues. The owner is, however, the only one that can take us to the next step in regards to server, hosting, etc... and as I said I do have hope and believe that those changes are forthcoming. I just wanted to clarify that issue, because I know myself and a lot of the other staff get messages from users who are justifiably upset we're still on this tin can we call a hosting company, but some things just aren't within our ability as staff to change. There is a proposal in place for server changes created by the tech admins though. I'm still here, because I truly have hope and believe that there will be changes for the better. 

 

Thanks for your thoughtful response <3 ! I also wanna clarify that I didn't mean to shade any of the admins or staff - I was just frustrated with everything in general, as you guys probably are too. It seems to me like Sad kind of created the forum on a whim and had it unexpectedly blow up into a huge community, but didn't take the initiative to grow the site at the same rate its community was. And the volunteer staff throughout the years seemed to me like users that genuinely loved OH and volunteered their time to help the forum out. If Sad doesn't have a desire to improve the forum's infrastructure and only wishes to just keep it alive, I hope that ownership of the site can be shared, at least in part, with a few other trusted admins, so that these changes can be made. 

 

Thank you again for the insight. 

 

Also, your dp and sig are awesome xD

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I just want to clarify that we are in no way taking the users for granted, and I apologize if that's the impression we have given. Honestly the only reason I am still here at all on OH, and I'm still trying to the best of my abilities is because the users, staff, and community deserve so much more than this. 

 

Sad is the sole owner of OH. As such he has the control over the money, and our hosting/server/licensing/etc... I agree we need a new server, host, software upgrade etc... but unfortunately it's not as easy as the staff/community just wanting this. We've been asking for this for a long time now. If I had any updates to give in regard to that I would, but it's not within my power to make those changes. I truly believe and hope those changes are forthcoming though, but in the meantime we're trying to work with what we have to the best of our abilities. The site isn't dying in the sense that we are going to disappear permanently (this stupid server is paid up), but from what I do know the host has been experiencing some issues, and randomly taking our site down over their own auto-perceived threats to our site, which sad has been fighting with them over each and every time. Our host, (which no one should be shocked by at this point) does not have the best customer service, and thus we get caught in limbo waiting for them to put us back online at some point between what I can only assume are their 24 hour discussions of dust settling, and server kicking. 

 

OH is still here and fighting, I'm still here and fighting, and I sincerely hope the community is as well, because we've come a long way over these years, and we deserve more years to come.

It's good to know that OH will be with us. Thanks for keeping us updated. Hopefully everything will work out.
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That wasn't what I meant at all. Sad has been much more responsive and active as of late. As I mentioned he's been the one fighting our server company continuously with our latest issues. The owner is, however, the only one that can take us to the next step in regards to server, hosting, etc... and as I said I do have hope and believe that those changes are forthcoming. I just wanted to clarify that issue, because I know myself and a lot of the other staff get messages from users who are justifiably upset we're still on this tin can we call a hosting company, but some things just aren't within our ability as staff to change. There is a proposal in place for server changes created by the tech admins though. I'm still here, because I truly have hope and believe that there will be changes for the better.

 

I hope OH does pull through because though I have been here only a year and a half it is my second home. When I started here my grandma was ill and not doing well and this site and it's users comforted me whether they knew it or not. When my grandma died my friends I made here gave me love and support. If there is anything that can be done please fix OH. I will be most greatful.
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That wasn't what I meant at all. Sad has been much more responsive and active as of late. As I mentioned he's been the one fighting our server company continuously with our latest issues. The owner is, however, the only one that can take us to the next step in regards to server, hosting, etc... and as I said I do have hope and believe that those changes are forthcoming. I just wanted to clarify that issue, because I know myself and a lot of the other staff get messages from users who are justifiably upset we're still on this tin can we call a hosting company, but some things just aren't within our ability as staff to change. There is a proposal in place for server changes created by the tech admins though. I'm still here, because I truly have hope and believe that there will be changes for the better. 

Thanks for the update, I truly do hope that this forum will be fixed. lovestruck.png

I was honestly losing hope for this forum, but your message has brought back some hope ahmagahplz.png

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