Where did all the Korean forum traffic go?
14As someone who remembers the dawn of the speaker dock era, one of the changes that came with that was a big forum presence by Korean speakers- first just users, then the small army of Meh Korean support staff to handle all the requests by those members.
Except for a couple of comments, the Korean members & support staff don't post anymore (excepting @galmaegi, who has an official flask, rather than the Korean support staff badge).
I still see Korean traffic top the referrer chart most days, so they still come here, but none of them post any more.
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They send watercolor CS requests instead.
They all went to that Korean Meh.
@darksaber99999 Ah, you mean "WAL"?
@darksaber99999 so is there a Korean everything? Korean ESPN???
@JonT So does Mediocre own that site or is it a clone? I assume the latter, but I can't tell from the site.
@JazzyJosh check this link here on the forums for more https://meh.com/forum/topics/an-interesting-item-tweeted-by-jont
@JazzyJosh My first impression was that WAL was a Mediocre venture that meh.com staff were sworn to disavow, but closer inspection yields a fact that would make no sense if it was anything but a very meticulous clone.
The wal.co.kr site appears to be entirely written in PHP, judging from the names of its URLs and cookies. In contrast, meh.com is built from the ground up on new-age tech like Node.js.
woot.com but then realized monty was the set up guy and left again
Perhaps everyone in Korea now has at least 2 speaker docks, so no need for meh.
It must be a conspiracy.
Just like drone.horse they have their own secret forum now.
Calling all Korean lurkers out there, 여기서 눈팅만 하지 말고 코멘트 좀 남겨줘요~
@galmaegi Google translated that to: Do not just leave me a comment here nunting a little ~
@Bogie I enjoy nunting a little.
Nunting means quaint or frowsy. I remember having to look it up after seeing it in a Robertson Davies book.
@Bogie Google translate will never get it. lol I said don't just nunting (lurking) and leave some comments here.
@Starblind - Then did you have to look up frowsy?
@KDemo i did. i need to work that into my conversation. i'm looking a bit frowsy today.
As I recall, a lot of the Korean forum posts expressed general incredulity that such a site could even exist--a lot of them translated to "Is this a scam?" or "Is this site real?" type questions. But then Meh got some fairly mainstream media coverage in Korea, so after that people presumably didn't have nearly as much cause to question if Meh was legit or not.
I am holding it down on Korean Meh!
lame my jpg did not upload correctly. I am 'bushconnor' on korean me wal
@connorbush Any purchases so far? Or are a forum lurker?
@2many2no lurk.
I believe Korean users still check us out, mostly through ppomppu. Our pages shared on ppomppu have an average of 3000 hits.
@galmaegi Do you still have other people helping you with Korean inquiries, or are you the only person handling the Korean users?
@dashcloud Just me right now.
@galmaegi I still visit most everyday :)
@nathanK and apparently pomppu got hacked and user DB got hacked.. Major debacle going on right now
@nathanK - Bad news. But I like their apology, I think I'm going to borrow it in the future:
“Ppomppu will do our best to curb further problems by mulling over all measures and ways. We sincerely apologize for this by bowing our heads.”
@KDemo @JonT could use this excuse for not mailing out all of his prizes in a (clears throat) timely manner.
Hey @nathanK! You're still alive. :)
@nathanK Glad to see you're still around- I thought all the Korean member support badge holders had gone for good.
@dashcloud haha I'm not really acting as "Korean Support" now, but the badge is still there. And @galmaegi yes I'm alive :)
Is ppomppu still linking to meh? I havent seen them at the top of the referral lists recently.