Formspring
| Formspring | |
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| URL | http://www.spring.me/[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb] |
| Status | Offline |
| Archiving status | Saved! |
| Archiving type | Unknown |
| Project source | https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/formspring-grab |
| Project tracker | http://tracker.archiveteam.org/formspring/ |
| IRC channel | #firespring (on hackint) |
Formspring, later known as spring.me, was an anonymous question-and-answer site. In 2013, it was the subject of Archive Team's recovery operation.
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Later developments
On August 12, 2013, the site changed their name to spring.me.
As of December 5, 2013, the site was going through frequent updates, which all seemed aimed at changing it from a question-and-answer site into yet another bland MySpace wannabe (while incidentally making it as user-unfriendly and unusable as possible).
By 2015, the site has "joined forces" with the dating website twoo.com. Trying to access any page on the spring.me domain now redirects to twoo.com's login page, and all spring.me profiles were transferred to twoo.com. Unfortunately, it does not appear that people's Formspring answers survived the transition, and the site by now is all but dead.
Obsolete information
Formspring had a practice of "expiring" accounts inactive for over 18 months. Trying to view such a profile only showed this message instead: "This Account Has Expired -- As of January 2013, accounts that have not been active in over 18 months may be automatically deleted. If this is your account, you may login within the next 24 hours to stop this account from being permanently deleted." (It's unclear what the "24 hours" refers to, seeing as the message is still there even after two months. Of course, by March 2013 with Formspring imminently closing, it's unlikely its administration would bother with specifically deleting any accounts at this point.) Nevertheless, by the November 2013 redesign the "expired" accounts were available for viewing once again.
An undocumented feature of Formspring was a RSS feed associated with every profile: http://www.formspring.me/profile/(profile name).rss The feed contained the last 20 answers posted on the profile. They were also available for expired accounts.
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