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# Create some email account. It can be a disposable one like 20minutemail or whatever. You're not likely to need it after activating your account. | # Create some email account. It can be a disposable one like 20minutemail or whatever. You're not likely to need it after activating your account. (However, you are likely to receive a mail there if you get banned.) | ||
# Go to [http://myvip.com myvip.com]. (Don't change the interface language to English, leave it in Hungarian!) | # Go to [http://myvip.com myvip.com]. (Don't change the interface language to English, leave it in Hungarian!) | ||
# Click on the "Regisztráció" button. The form on the right changes to a registration form. | # Click on the "Regisztráció" button. The form on the right changes to a registration form. | ||
Revision as of 15:21, 24 January 2016
| 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 | #byevip (on hackint) |
myVIP is an earlier 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. The highest profile ID is a bit above 4,600,000 but some profiles have been deleted.
In 2014, people report that the once popular myVIP is now deserted, hardly anyone logs in regularly. New users still seem to be registering, even in 2016, but they don't really share content and are probably not too active.
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 – responsive, and usually fix the bugs.
Since 2015-12-16, according to a support mail, "There is currently ongoing maintenance on our site, therefore unfortunately not all functions are avaialble, also the login may show problems sometimes." The – fortunately – only visible problem is that some comments don't appear properly under the images. As of 2016-01-17, this hasn't been fixed yet.
The most worrysome, however, is that the owner probably doesn't have much profit in keeping the site up.
How can I help?
Everyone who wants to help must register an own myVIP account. Then clone and start up the given script, as with other ArchiveTeam projects. Note:
- This is a script-only project. The Warrior is not supported.
- With one account, you should run only 1 instance of the script! (However, it seems that multiple instances each with different accounts can run on one computer without problems.)
Registering an account
- Create some email account. It can be a disposable one like 20minutemail or whatever. You're not likely to need it after activating your account. (However, you are likely to receive a mail there if you get banned.)
- Go to myvip.com. (Don't change the interface language to English, leave it in Hungarian!)
- Click on the "Regisztráció" button. The form on the right changes to a registration form.
- Fill in the form. The fields are for the following: last name, first name, email address, password, sex, birthdate, I've-read-the-terms. Please note:
- – Be at least 18.
- – You should choose a realistic name – otherwise you may get banned. For extra safety, you may choose a Hungarian name.
- – Your name and location (see below) will be visible on the top-right on every page you save. Also, your profile will also be saved (consider this when filling in the following other form too).
- Click "Regisztráció".
- Fill in the next form. Only the "lakhely" (permanent address) and "tartózkodási hely" (temporary address, or place of residence) fields are mandatory. Choose a country for each. If you want to look less suspicious, you should choose "Magyarország" (Hungary), in this case you must then choose a county in the same drop-down menu, and finally a settlement (or, if you chose Budapest instead of a county, then a district). Then click "Mentés".
- You'll see the same form with a notice on top. Don't worry. Check your email account. Find the mail with subject "E-mail cím jóváhagyása". In that, click on the "Tovább a MyVIP-ra" text. Then you're redirected to the form you filled in before.
- If there is no warning on the top with red letters, you're done. If there is, either the countries aren't give properly, or the activation wasn't successful. Try again. (Unlikely that this happens.)
Running the script
Information coming soon. The project is in the development phase yet.
Sources