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All in all, we should presume that myVIP won't stay for long. And as it used to be a central point of Hungarian internet, it must be preserved. | All in all, we should presume that myVIP won't stay for long. And as it used to be a central point of Hungarian internet, it must be preserved. | ||
== Status == | |||
The site seems to be generally stable. Some bugs appear, but staff is – surprisingly – active in fixing some of them. However, bugs seem to appear more and more often (currently<ref>2015-07-30</ref> 404 and 502 errors), but the most worrysome is that the owner probably doesn't have much <s>interest</s> profit in keeping the site up... | |||
== Archiving == | == Archiving == | ||
Due to myVIP's closed system and [[robots.txt]], Wayback Machine has | Due to myVIP's closed system and [[robots.txt]], Wayback Machine can't archive the site. | ||
[[user:bzc6p]] decided to save the site, but it's too big for one person. He has written a working bash script that is able to save profiles with all related stuff – but this script must be "translated" into one that fits into ArchiveTeam's infrastructure. This will be, obviously, done by not else but user:bzc6p, as soon as he learns the basics of those languages and has the time to re-write the script. (Probably a few months.) | |||
What is already sure: | |||
* site utilizes a lot of javascript but still can be saved perfectly | |||
* scraping persons will need to register an account | |||
Some things still need to be found out before setting out, but it's still in progress. | |||
== Notes == | |||
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== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
Revision as of 17:41, 30 July 2015
| myVIP | |
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 Second most popular Hungarian social network | |
| URL | http://myvip.com[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb] |
| Status | Endangered |
| Archiving status | Upcoming... |
| Archiving type | Unknown |
| IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
myVIP is a formerly popular Hungarian social network, it started in 2006 as the second of its kind. Although iWiW was very popular then, myVIP also could collect a lot of users in no time. However, Facebook took over the social network market in Hungary too, and myVIP also got deserted. And, considering that iWiW shut down with a lot more visitors than myVIP in 2014, it's a wonder that myVIP is still up.
History
The site started on April 8, 2006, and grew insanely quickly. Number of users reached 500,000 in just 52 days, no matter that registration was bound to invitation. The 1 millionth member registered after 7 months, the 2 millionth in less than 2 years, and by mid-2009 it had 2.5 million profiles.
It is not easy to find up-to-date information about the number of registered users, but, if we consider the case of iWiW, we can assume that it increased until 2010, when a quick decline started.
In 2014, people report that the once popular myVIP is now deserted, hardly anyone logs in regularly.
Interesting that Epicenter Média Kft, that bought up myVIP and other stuff from Generál Média, keeps running the site, however, it's possibly not making much profit. On the one hand, myVIP is a bit more aggressive in showing ads than iWiW. On the other hand, it was never as popular as iWiW. And iWiW was shut down in 2014.
All in all, we should presume that myVIP won't stay for long. And as it used to be a central point of Hungarian internet, it must be preserved.
Status
The site seems to be generally stable. Some bugs appear, but staff is – surprisingly – active in fixing some of them. However, bugs seem to appear more and more often (currently[1] 404 and 502 errors), but the most worrysome is that the owner probably doesn't have much interest profit in keeping the site up...
Archiving
Due to myVIP's closed system and robots.txt, Wayback Machine can't archive the site.
user:bzc6p decided to save the site, but it's too big for one person. He has written a working bash script that is able to save profiles with all related stuff – but this script must be "translated" into one that fits into ArchiveTeam's infrastructure. This will be, obviously, done by not else but user:bzc6p, as soon as he learns the basics of those languages and has the time to re-write the script. (Probably a few months.)
What is already sure:
- site utilizes a lot of javascript but still can be saved perfectly
- scraping persons will need to register an account
Some things still need to be found out before setting out, but it's still in progress.
Notes
- ↑ 2015-07-30
Sources