Announcement 2025 Recap & What’s Coming in 2026! (1 Viewer)

[Sourcekeeper]

Happy New Year, KS!

2025 was a massive turning point for me. After feeling stuck for a while, I really pushed myself this year to improve the site. My main goal was to make life easier for our staff, specifically by overhauling the backend of the Card System & moving it externally to its own thing—which was easily the most complex piece of the puzzle.

Now that the foundation is solid, we can move on to the fun stuff. We’ve already rolled out Single Sign-On (you may have noticed you don't need to keep logging in as you navigate different features).

For 2026, my focus is on polishing up missing features. The big project on the horizon? A Unified Notification System that works across the whole site.

Thanks for sticking with us, and let's make 2026 awesome.

The ks theme for dark & light mode has also undergone lots of changes throughout 2025, focusing on mobile experience.

Check out the hub to explore all these new features

Features Hub

Find the main KpopSource features, guides, games, directories, and support links.

kpopsource.com

Kpop text adventure game.

Artist thread Gallery

Idol Trivia game with diy trivia

Card System with AI battles

Various shops & self service forms like frames, badges, trophy points to ks coins, fandom tag manager.

 

[gone4good]

I absolutely LOVE all the adjustments and enhancements you've made unnie TYSM!
Everyone's been unanimously telling me how amazing our layout and features are! We are so grateful!
And the ability to "expense" frames and badges ourselves now is soooooooo convenient!!

 

[BlingyBlinger]

I had no idea there were games! Must investigate

 

[dark_tranquility]

thanks for all that you do @Asa

 

[fdonce]

What is this card battle...can I make Nayeon fight Gaeul?

 

[gone4good]

What is this card battle...can I make Nayeon fight Gaeul?

 

[fdonce]

I look forward to these feature so I can retire my Pokemon cards

 

[Sourcekeeper]

What is this card battle...can I make Nayeon fight Gaeul?

Not final yet, many things not done, but - https://kpopsource.com/cardsystem/queue.php

 

[ChiaraStar169]

tysm for all you do! but what about the trading system?

 

[fdonce]

Not final yet, many things not done, but - https://kpopsource.com/cardsystem/queue.php

I dont have a single card

 

[Moguri]

ohhhh you've put so many features in, Moguri also missed a bunch it seems

what is the text adventure game??

 

[Moguri]

I look forward to these feature so I can retire my Pokemon cards

I dont have a single card

yeah you should fix that first before trying to do anything else I told you a long time ago you should have started, you do the daily missions anyways evey day

 

[Sourcekeeper]

ohhhh you've put so many features in, Moguri also missed a bunch it seems

what is the text adventure game??

Its the trainee game, i just need testers playing it then to report on the bug report system if there are any bugs

 

[fdonce]

yeah you should fix that first before trying to do anything else I told you a long time ago you should have started, you do the daily missions anyways evey day

Gotta start looking into it now

 

[Moguri]

Its the trainee game, i just need testers playing it then to report on the bug report system if there are any bugs

ohhh... I see it nohw, I'll try to check it out!

 

[centen]

It's been so nice to see so many things become "self-serve" so to speak, to help lighten the load on the staff and also make it easier for them to think up fun new things.

 

[Moguri]

Gotta start looking into it now

now you can't, becasue the cards team is on hiatus

 

[Sourcekeeper]

It's been so nice to see so many things become "self-serve" so to speak, to help lighten the load on the staff and also make it easier for them to think up fun new things.

Yeah that is my goal, i dont want staff to get burnt out doing stuff that can be done by users themselves, so they can focus on creation and the forum more.

 

[fdonce]

now you can't, becasue the cards team is on hiatus

Oh either way, I looked at the process...it decided its too much work

 

[Snailmin]

I dont have a single card

Me neither I don’t know how