myVIP
| myVIP | |
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 Second most popular Hungarian social network | |
| URL | http://myvip.com[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb] |
| Status | Online! |
| 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.
Archiving
Due to myVIP's closed system and robots.txt, Wayback Machine has zero of its pages archived.
As it doesn't seem to be leaving very soon, user:bzc6p doesn't want to ring ArchiveTeam's alarmbells yet. However, he makes an archiving plan, so that action can be taken immediately when necessary. He may also start archiving it slowly – very little new content is likely to be generated, as only 1-2% of the total userbase is active.
user:bzc6p is now discovering the site structure, and creates an algorithm for its archival.
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