This may seem ridiculous but I still had a few videos on my Myspace account that aren't on a hard drive or anywhere else on the internet. As of 2017 you could still access your photos and working videos under the "mixes" section, but now the videos have gone dead. The titles and length times still show, but the files are shown as broken and do not play. Haven't really seen too much word about this online from anyone. It seems like eventually someone always figures out a fix. Anyone had any experience with this yet?
Myspace messages disappeared years ago. It makes sense that they would eventually phase out all personal user media. If I were you, I'd worry less about recovering the videos, only because it's probably a losing game at this point, and spend your efforts making sure you have the photos. Once they're gone, they're not coming back. Also, I don't think the WayBack Machine would work in this instance. They've never really archived social media profiles, at least not for everyday users.
Yeah, myspace removed a bunch of shit years ago so I'm not surprised. Hope you get to recover your files. There are songs from some old bands of mine that are now completely wiped from Earth. It's a horrible feeling.
What amazes me about sites like MySpace is how they die slow deaths like this. Eventually you have to ask yourself why are they even running the thing anymore?
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What amazes me about sites like MySpace is how they die slow deaths like this. Eventually you have to ask yourself why are they even running the thing anymore?
What amazes me about sites like MySpace is how they die slow deaths like this. Eventually you have to ask yourself why are they even running the thing anymore?
Ad revenue is free money.
I get that but you’re not making ad money if no one goes to your site. Seriously, who goes to MySpace any more? I can’t think of a single demographic that would go there on a regular basis unless MySpace has some how cornered the social media experience of Kazakhstan or some place like that.
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What amazes me about sites like MySpace is how they die slow deaths like this. Eventually you have to ask yourself why are they even running the thing anymore?
Ad revenue is free money.
I get that but you’re not making ad money if no one goes to your site. Seriously, who goes to MySpace any more? I can’t think of a single demographic that would go there on a regular basis unless MySpace has some how cornered the social media experience of Kazakhstan or some place like that.
It's totally different from what it used to be. My guess though would be people clinging to the hope that it may one day be cool again. That, and believe it or not, apparently sex workers. I've done some reading and it seems that it's quite popular with literally pimps.
What amazes me about sites like MySpace is how they die slow deaths like this. Eventually you have to ask yourself why are they even running the thing anymore?
Ad revenue is free money.
I get that but you're not making ad money if no one goes to your site. Seriously, who goes to MySpace any more? I can't think of a single demographic that would go there on a regular basis unless MySpace has some how cornered the social media experience of Kazakhstan or some place like that.
It's totally different from what it used to be. My guess though would be people clinging to the hope that it may one day be cool again. That, and believe it or not, apparently sex workers. I've done some reading and it seems that it's quite popular with literally pimps.
Actually, it went back to what it was in the beginning. A music site. But it became social media so that shift back to original focus killed it for good. Musicians migrated to bandcamp while social media whores jumped to Facebook once it stopped trying to be what it was meant to be.
I'm thankful for both platforms for certain reasons, but at this time I say fuck them both.
What amazes me about sites like MySpace is how they die slow deaths like this. Eventually you have to ask yourself why are they even running the thing anymore?
Ad revenue is free money.
I get that but you're not making ad money if no one goes to your site. Seriously, who goes to MySpace any more? I can't think of a single demographic that would go there on a regular basis unless MySpace has some how cornered the social media experience of Kazakhstan or some place like that.
It's totally different from what it used to be. My guess though would be people clinging to the hope that it may one day be cool again. That, and believe it or not, apparently sex workers. I've done some reading and it seems that it's quite popular with literally pimps.
Actually, it went back to what it was in the beginning. A music site. But it became social media so that shift back to original focus killed it for good. Musicians migrated to bandcamp while social media whores jumped to Facebook once it stopped trying to be what it was meant to be.
I'm thankful for both platforms for certain reasons, but at this time I say fuck them both.
Actually, MySpace was for storage and a data repository. It had nothing to do with music/media or social media when it was founded - hence My "Space".
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That really sucks. We used to use PictureTrail, not sure if it's still up and around.
Reasons like this is why you have your own hard backups of everything. The Cloud is just a marketable term for someone else's computer.
Sure, utilize it as an offsite backup. But don't depend on it being there forever.
The "cloud" is the worst thing to happen to modern computing. I also wouldn't recommend it being a backup of anything with critical or sensitive data. Use offline, offsite locations for backups.
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MySpace is interesting. Never got into it, but know people that did. They laughed at the thought of something called Facebook or Twitter becoming more popular.
Old internet is fun.
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I'll be honest, with so much well warranted hate towards what FB has become, I'd wish there would be a push to return to MySpace. I mean, the platform is there, it's been updated over the years, but no one uses it. It's ready for a come back, if someone over there capitalized on Zuckerbergs shortcomings.
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