myVIP
| 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.
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 – as of 2015-07-30 – 404 and 502 errors), but the most worrysome 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!
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.
- 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 (whatever you want), email address, password, sex, birthdate (be at least 18), I've-read-the-terms.
- 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. (Choosing "Magyarország" (Hungary) forces you to specify the county and the settlement, so you might not want to choose that.) 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.
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