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Hater Depot
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 Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:51 am Post subject: Korean websites that suck |
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A while back JongnoGuru suggested a thread of Korean websites which are so poorly programmed as to be unusable. Here you go.
Plenty of websites are programmed so as not to provide links to specific pages. And heaven forbid you should want to copy and paste some text; no, everything is done with graphics.
The website for the World Speedskating Championships was so overloaded with Flash animations and Lord knows what else that my computer was totally unusable until I killed the process with Ctrl+Alt+Del.
The website for Seoul Tower barely even displays itself in Firefox. |
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SuperHero
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:57 am Post subject: |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:59 am Post subject: |
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SuperHero
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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it has nothing to do with being married, so stop saying that everytime I mention cyworld sucks. My wife has a cyworld and I think it sucks - I've told her that. Cyworld does sucks, there is not one redeeming quality to it. It's far to dependant on javascript, it's one box fits all, doesn't play well with browsers other than IE. basically it sucks. And it has limited, extremely limited customizability. It sucks. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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Any site that has an area called "mini-humpy" is best avoided.
Cyworld is for teenagers or old pervs who like to look at/try to score teenagers. Nothing to do with marriage, but more to do with age and maturity.
IMHO, of course. |
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Just about 90% of them are worthless in Firefox, despite having all the requisite language packs installed, most Korean websites seem to come up in that "arab-looking" character jumble, and not hangool. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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it has nothing to do with being married, so stop saying that everytime I mention cyworld sucks. My wife has a cyworld and I think it sucks - I've told her that. Cyworld does sucks, there is not one redeeming quality to it. It's far to dependant on javascript, it's one box fits all, doesn't play well with browsers other than IE. basically it sucks. And it has limited, extremely limited customizability. It sucks. |
Okay then, married + not Korean.
I'm sorry to be abrasive but like I said, from what I can tell you have no reason to like it even were it to work well with other browsers. The reason why your wife and others like it (the first reason it became popular anyway) is because people first started using it to look up old friends that they could find with a simple name and DOB search. There was a site before that was popular for a few months called iloveschool.com or something like that, but I don't think it offered anything but looking up people and there was nothing much online to do afterwards. Assuming you don't have a big group of old Korean school chums to look up, you don't have any use for it there. What would you use it for if it happened to work well with your browser? Does your wife ever wonder what use you find in posting here? Since there's nothing special about the site technically (can't upload pictures, files, search function's pretty bad, nothing internet 2.0ish that can be collaborated on) the only reason to use it is for networking, and here there are people who actually have something in common with you. If you were Korean I'm sure you would be using Cyworld to look up old school and army buddies, and the technical aspects would come second, same as here.
The comment about IE would be valid but since Korean's don't really use other browsers, it doesn't apply here. It's the same as somebody in Uzbekistan coming up with a new browser one day and then suddenly complaining that a site I run doesn't work on their new browser.
Edit: The only time I remember really being irritated with Cyworld was when I was back home for a few months and I had to use it through the Mac at the house in Calgary. Every time a page would come up I'd have to click on the OK button to let it know that I understood that it couldn't play the music file, and that irritated me to no end. I was using it at the time to communicate with the Korean girl I had tentatively agreed to marry though, and she was in Australia so there was really no better way except for messenger but on Cyworld I could leave messages when she wasn't there so we usually used that. There's almost always an emotional reason to using a site so freqently. |
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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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| it has nothing to do with being married, so stop saying that everytime I mention cyworld sucks. ... |
Hmmm ... 
(Admittedly, some minor alterations here and there, but ... )
But however bad Cyworld may be, MySpace outstrips it by light-years. MySpace alone accounts for 95% of the busiest, most chaotic, ugliest web-pages I've ever seen. |
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ronnie
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