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Welcome to the new Dramabeans!

You may notice that things look a little different around here. We’ve been working really hard to bring you a cleaner, more responsive, more interactive experience, and are very excited to welcome you to the new Dramabeans!

Don’t worry—it’s still really the old Dramabeans, and all of our content is still here… somewhere… maybe in a new corner of the site. We know that we’ve gone into your living room and rearranged all of your furniture while you were out, so we’re here to guide you and tell you where we put all your stuff. We even got your some spiffy new stuff to go with it!

 
User accounts. You are now able to claim your usernames for good by registering with the site. If you are a longtime user, sign up with the email associated with your comments; we’re doing our best to link your old history to your new account. With your account, you can now create a profile and post things on your fan wall, and also track all the comments you’ve made. (You can still comment without creating a user account, although you won’t get to use any of the account features below.)

 
Upvoting/Downvoting. The thumbs are back! Comments can now be given thumbs-ups and thumbs-downs, but only to registered users. Thumbs are super fun, so you should totally register.

 
Featured Beanies. The “Beanies” tab in the header will take you to a page that highlights you guys and your comments. Be an active Beanie and be featured here!

 
Following. Users can follow each other, reply on each other’s fan walls, and get notifications when your friends post content. You can also follow shows by going to a recap and clicking the “Favorite” button.

 
Beanie Levels. Every comment upvote you’re given, every user you follow (or are followed by), and every fan wall post you make accumulates points for your account! What is this good for? Not anything useful, but we have implemented point levels, which will change your Beanie status as you accumulate more points. In your profile page, you’ll see that your Beanie level starts off as “Candy” (because everybody starts out as a Candy in dramaland!). We plan to also display the point totals so you can actually see how many you have (this feature is coming soon!), as you work your way up to water maid, noble idiot, and contract girlfriend, among many others. We also plan to add comment counts to the point totals.

 
Notifications. Your account will notify you when someone follows you, when someone comments on your posts (on your fan wall), when someone likes your post, and when a show you’re following adds a new post (say, posts a new recap). We’re adding email notification capability very soon!

 
Recaps, News, and Extras. We’ve grouped everything into three overarching categories, as you can see from the front page. “Recaps” includes not only drama recaps but also drama reviews (say, year end reviews), What We’re Watching posts, Spill the Beans, and movie reviews. “News” encompasses all news (drama, movie, variety, celebrity). And “Extras” is where you’ll find Podcasts, Open Threads, Beans of Wisdom, Announcement and meta posts, and anything that’s not a recap, review, or news post.

 
Blog View. If you don’t like this division of categories and yearn for the olden days when everything was in nice reverse chronological order, don’t worry, we’ve taken care of you. The “Switch to Blog View” button in the header will take you to a simple page that displays all posts.

 
Glitches. We’ve tested the site extensively and prepared as best we could, but we know there will inevitably be some glitches as we all settle into the new site. If you encounter any, shoot us an email at hello@dramabeans.com. Screenshots are super helpful, as well as information about what device/platform you are using.

 
Thanks for all your patience and understanding—we’re beyond excited to present our new site to you, and hope you like it! We promise to work out the remaining kinks as quickly as we’re able. In the meantime, go forth and explore, Beanies!

 
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I love the new website :). I registered and I am surprised that I have made over 500 comments on this site in the past 4 years, wow XD. I love the new layout, thank you for your hard work.

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Can't create an account because my name does "contain invalid characters"?? Would be nice if things like that are being fixed because I'm only using characters from the alphabet.

As for the website: it looks pretty sterile and cold. I was a bit shocked to see the change. Nothing against a new layout but this feels really impersonal. :(

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dont use capital letter, then it works.

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Wow. Hello all. Happy to be here. The best drama blog.

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Hi hi? Test test. Haha.

I'm guessing this commenting system is based on wordpress, heh.

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Glad to see you here, peeps! -- PakalanaPikake

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Congrats on the transition! Oh this is so cool! I do miss the old site (I get attached easily) however I think I'm going to like this new one too.

I was sad I couldn't just be "Kay" since we needed 5 characters or more in the username, so now I will forever crave kimchi because that's the first food that popped into my head haha. The user history is SO cool…I went back to the first message I ever posted on here and it was a Boys Over Flower recap (of course!)…8 years! Oh my!

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LOL I can't use my old username (Yue) since it's less than five characters, but I love these changes and the new layout looks fantastic.

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Wow! :O This site has come such a long way in the last 10 years. I look forward to exploring! Thanks for your hard work! <3

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Great job, DB Team. ???

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PS - That wasn't a criticism. I just thought it would be helpful to know. I love the new site!

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I'm referring to the site not letting you use spaces in your name. Wow. I'll have to get the hang of replying to the correct comment! Anyway, much love to the new site!

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*waves at MermaidScribbler* -- Am glad to see we both made it over. ;-) -- PakalanaPikake

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*waving back* ?

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I love LOVE the changes made in here. So I need the Contract Girlfriend status asap. Gotta post a lot of comments.

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Congratulations on the successful move! The new look is great. Looking forward to exploring. Time for another glass of champagne?

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Glad to see you here! -- PakalanaPikake

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Hello it's me Sweet&Sour, but since the new system won't take "&" or capital letters, I'm not "sweetsour". I like the new look of this site! Congrats on the new upgrade :)

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I meant "I'm now" not "I'm not", I wonder if edit buttons be added?

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hello sweetsour, I was 'Sera The Ms Temper' ?

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Nooooo. Ms Temper is gone.

I was wondering what people who changed up their usernames based on shows would do.

Good name!

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Hello there!

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Yay! I thought that was you! -- PakalanaPikake

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While I am super excited about being able to register and see my comments, as well as some new usability tricks, as a designer not really loving new "blue" look. I think the previous orange was really good. Also, the font of recaps has changed? Something within typography (either fonts or background) is not working well for me...

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This is so exciting! Thanks for the hardwork!!!!

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Oh My GOD.
when I saw the new of the change for some reason I was picturing a really small change or like a few tweeks here and there but THIS! Was not what I was expecting. Very nice surprise. But probably a lot for my brain to handle. I think I need a minute or ten to process the site.
All I can say is this, it looks amazing DB staff. We all love it and thank you so much for all the hard work!
Squee!! Cheers everyone.
Now I have to come up with an awesome profile.

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Been lurking on this site for many years xD love the new layout! Very nice! :)

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AMAZING JOB! This new style is even better than what my imagination conjured up as a potential fresher, trendier Dramabeans. I am impressed - and extremely excited over the new functionality!

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Super excited to start using the new site :)

Question: Do you still have the weekly airing list somewhere? I love that thing to death and look at it *every* day.

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Yayyy DB is back! I've been checking the whole day!~ xD
And I agonized over a new username for a while, but finally settled on one... ^^

Excited to check out the new features and keep a count of my comments now. The site design looks so bright and white. I thought it seemed brighter than before, but the old layout did have a white center background with by gray side columns[?].

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Love it!

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I'M SO EXCITED!!!! This is such a big step forward, I'm happy for Dramabeans! I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!

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Congrats to the successful crossover, you guys! It looks good and the features are cool!

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Would you guys be open to giving back the colour in the background, maybe through some theme we can switch on or off?

Right now the white of the page is just overpowering. I like all the other changes but. it hurts more to read at night. Also makes the site hard to differentiate from other blogs.

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Wow, it looks awesome!! Well done, Team! I especially love having all my old comments linked under my profile... I had no idea I'd been commenting so much!

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Thanks for all the hard work. The site looks great! ?

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Yeaayy so excited with the new layout and features

But, when my username only consist 4 characters and for registered need at least 5 characters, I have to thinking extra hard.. Ahahaha

And with this registered account, I just realized all this time I typed the wrong email! Silly me.. I didn't realized my email use '.' not '_' until after I registered and the activation email didn't arrived yet.. Huhu so I lost the track all my previous comment

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Omooo it looks awesome! Congrats dramabeans team! So excited for you and so excited to explore the site and its new features (after I read SWDBS recap...which I have been dying for since watching this weeks episode). Thank you for working so hard on this, its sometimes the only place I can come to to read like-minded opinions and reactions and fangirl endlessly.

Congrats again and best of luck with the new website!!!

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I've just finished cleaning my mushroom house. Refreshing Dramabeans....and voilà. Cool ?

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Hey there! I loved the old design very much but just as excited to explore the new one. I think the recaps page needs a back to top button. Congratulations on the move :)

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Hey guys!! Great work!! The site looks amazing, cleaner and now we can have all the community stuff, yay!!

I just miss one thing - the rotating headers in home page!
Can we have the old ones available for us to choose them us our profile page header? There were so many great ones <3 It might just be my lazyness that i cant find a picture fitting the size, lol.

And am concerned about one thing, we know beanies comments can get super long and with so much spacing throughout the whole site, maybe it will be hard for readability and a very teeny tiny scroll bar! Maybe it just needs sometime getting used too!

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Yay!! So glad the new site is up and active. You ladies deserve a break--sleep or soju.... or Oppa's undying love, your pick! ;) Thanks for always providing such a wonderful community to be a part of, and for always striving to make our experience a richer one. Proud beanie here. <3

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Hi, I just registered, but had to choose one username longer than three letters and up to 9, just letters and numbers, not even capitals or spaces. Is that normal? Because orher people have longer names...

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Oh my, I would like to unregister and try again, but I think once you become a beanie, you are a beanie for life lol.
Maybe it's because I'm on my phone...

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Maybe you can register by using other email?

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Ok, so I "solved" the problem by changing my email and registering again as verzaholicbee with the email I usually entered here. Pity I'm not able to keep being Bee, and I would still like to delete my other account, but all in all, I'm enjoying having my own account and being able to track my old comments. I can't believe how many I wrote!

Congrats on the new website, hope it will keep improving! (Also, would love as well -there was another person commenting on this- to have the weekly schedule back, I'm lost without it!)

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Ok, so I can't find the other comment about the drama list, but I found it!: http://www.dramabeans.com/resources/

Ok, I can go to sleep now feeling content with my day :D

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Hi, I miss the series schedule
It was very useful for a quick review ¿ do you like put it buck ? please?

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YAY, it's up! And it looks amazing! Love the look and feel, and the design of it <3

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The site looks really good, I'm loving all the new stuff ^_^
Great Job!

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The only downside to the beanie levels is that lurkers will forever remain in the Candy level.

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Couldn't agree more! I rarely comment on DB. But it's okayy. Maybe the new system will makes me active and participate more?hehe

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I'm in love with the new website! This seems like it will give everyone a chance to interact with each other even if we're not content creators. Can't wait for all the new feature roll outs!

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I love the new site! I am glad we can register for an account. My favorite thing about the new site so far. Makes it easier to comment.

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The new site looks awesome! Good job girls! :D I've been a long time dramabeans reader now but never commented. I think that this revamp is a great excuse for me to register and start be active in here :)

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Congratulations on your upgrade! I love what you've done with the place. ^_^

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So excited to be here. Layout looks amazing!

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What an interactive DB! YAY! it reminded me with other popular kdrama forum too! Anyway just a lil bit curious, how you categorized beanie level? How many level?

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Dear Dramabeans ..... The site won't let me register! *sadface*

I can input my username, e-mail and a selected password, the birthdate won't let you enter anything other than today's date---if I try anything else the words Nan/Nan/Nan pop up. ...... Then the swirly circles pop up ...... and then nothing.

The site looks great though.

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LOL I feel you. I tried numerous times to register by using "Sera The Ms Temper " but i was unsuccesful? As a result I changed my name and yes finally I succesfully registered.

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korfan here, Oh my gosh! I was finally able to register! I think.

It turns out you need to have the Shockwave add-on enabled. ..... I just figured this out! ..... The thing is, it makes this site lag, lag, lag in loading, in going from one thing to another and it makes a security window pop up. If I disable it, these problems don't show up.

The thing now, however, is that when I try to login, the message "Your account has not been activated" pops up. I know I was supposed to receive an e-mail after registration over 3 hours ago, but none has been received. ...... However, when I try to comment as korfan, the site says my e-mail has been taken.

What to do?

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Oops, sorry, I meant to type 2 hours ago, not 3.

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I adore the upgraded aesthetic and features, everything is incredible!

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Congratulations on the changeover! New site looks great ?

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Congratulations Dramabeans. Site feels funner than ever.

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*salute*
Guys this new site looks awesome!
But my heart still dropped a little when I first saw it. The familiarity of that logo was like a cozy chair. But I am sure I will get used to this new one and fall in love with it soon!

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Also, is there any way to see my old comments. I can see that I have made many, but can I view them too?

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Nevermind. Found how to view them.

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Yayy love the new website! Looks so fresh :D

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I am late to the party but this new feature is exciting! I am changin my username anyway lol.

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Me too!

Were you inspired by Ho Won's 4 degrees of tteobokki?

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ahahaa yes!

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This looks lovely! I have been a silent (but avid) Dramabeans fan and reader for 9 years now, and this is my very first post. Nothing like beanie points incentive to get one out of the woodwork! I am so looking forward to exploring the new site. Your had work is most appreciated!

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