Waddup, party peeps!
The launch of the new SOOMPI.COM is finally at hand!
We've had beta-testers on the new site for the past couple of weeks, and they've done an awesome job adding content and giving us feedback, and now it's your turn!
Here are some of the new features:
FAN CLUBS – these are basically "mini-forums" for each of your favorite stars, singers, dramas, and whatever else you're a fan of. Now, instead of having to browse through hundreds of pages in a thread to find what you're looking for, we have a well-organized area for fans to share info & resources with fellow fans, run by the fans themselves!
Image gallery – gone are the days of posting all these images, only to have them lost forever on the fast-moving forum. You can now upload and tag images so people can easily find them using our image search, or via the various fan clubs.
Video gallery – you can add all your favorite youtube videos to your fan clubs, including music videos, interviews, NG's, behind-the-scenes, etc.
This is just the first round of new features. We'll be adding a lot more cool things over the next few weeks/months, including a fanfic library, a storefront for all you SOOMPI sellers & buyers, beefed up k-drama and film sections, and more!
Why are we doing this? Despite the fact that our SOOMPI members have been so creative in using the forum to perform many different tasks (e.g. creating indexes for the 1000+ page fan threads, writing and responding to fanfics, creating stores, etc), the fact of the matter is that the forum is a very inefficient and outdated way of doing many of these things.
We want you to keep doing what you're doing, but give you a better and more sane place to do it in.
Give us your feedback, good and bad (as long as it's constructive
). Let us know how we can improve things. We are well aware of the current server issues, and are planning to get an additional server online very soon. In the meantime, one way that you can help is to hang out & participate on the new site as much as possible, as this should help with the server load (in theory, at least!).
Well then! I hope I've piqued your interest in the new SOOMPI.com. We have a tentative release date of SOMETIME THIS WEEK -- thanks for your patience!!
2 more quick things:
- If you haven't heard already, our beloved tech-guru dot1q became a dad a few weeks ago – congratulations!!
- SOOMPI is optimized for FIREFOX, a free, safe, and awesome browser that all the cool kids use ☺.
If you haven't seen it yet - check out the first episode of SOOMPI ROYALE at http://soompi.com/royale or below
huge props to our resident artist MORI for his creative genius!
Thanks for choosing SOOMPI!
*hi-5's all around!*
-soomp
Though i'll miss old soompi, the new one sounds so far also!^^ Thanks to all the ones who helped w/ this upgrade. Soompi's going to be great no matter what. 
yay!!
heehee...
