i keep seeing a lot of 'the thing with spacehey' and i'm really curious about what happened?(i have yet to actually google it, but i figured just asking would be more direct and personable lol)
i've been on the waiting list for it, but after i found this fun little place i stopped caring about getting on over there, now there's the whole 'the thing about spacehey' and iiiii just like knowing things
just wondering what brand of bullet it was that i dodged
spacehey was good
then it wasn't
the end xoxo
i mean there is so much lore to delve into with it
it would take several youtube vids to do it justice
i might start a whole blog series on the lore tho tbh
@max ah yes, so good, i feel like i was there lol. honestly if you did i'd be sat cause dang what the heell
I missed the initial thing when the whole inviting friends thing came into effect. I heard things about firing mods as well, would love to hear more about that too!
I think the laws about age-verification had an impact too, where the developer couldn't implement that change so the site was just unavailable in several places. So it was kinda a ghost town.
Updates now are really slow if not non-existent, like there's a bug where profile pictures won't show up.
So it was kinda empty, and somewhat less charming.
And then this place had all the allure and sparkle and new features (that worked) and an attentive dev so us spacehey-ers sought refuge and community here!
two things awe me most: the starry sky above me, and the moral law within me" @medeuxsa ahh okay, man that's not good:/ so really like max said, it was good until it wasn't lmao. WELL, i'm glad this place exists and everyone's finding their way~
@majesstiqe i'll try and keep that in mind as a project for a rainy day !
ps you can ping on here??
bam
in yr face spacehay/napo lol
oh the latest update with the burning dumpster fire that is spacehey btw
i recently discovered that is entirely possible for someone to mass report a user
without even needing to be signed in or even have an account :o
note: the same mass reports are then eventually handled by an ai moderation bot
make of that what you will </3
@max oh wtf that's crazy?? i hate that (not the ai mods smh)
@majesstiqe ya i found that out last night
such a massively exploitable thing which is so wide open to abuse
anton just dont give a shit no mo' :o
@max that's gross as hell ugh
@majesstiqe
i was on an alt acc yesterday, one burner ive had for a while
moment i switched it up from incognito and went on my main
i was mass reported lol
then when we talked bout it all on discord later
i was still on sphy lurking pages
found this predatory acc that was literally "hey daddy wants sexting"
gross as all hell
and i forgot i was banned and attempted to report him
and was shocked at how i could do that without even bein logged in :o
I was an occasional Spacehey user for, like, 5 years. All I know is that people have mostly stopped using it, so it became more and more of a ghost town. I think the moderator/creator has stopped trying to fix stuff that goes wrong because most profile pics don't even display anymore on their comments.
@Aaron Phantasmic
its that and he's also busy with uni
a lil from column a, a lil from column b
but yeah, it does kinda look like he's turned his back on it all
Part of the problem also is that people got on looking for a way to relive the old Myspace days, but no matter how closely a site resembles Myspace and how well it does or doesn't work, that will never happen completely, because the world has changed and it's a different time...
I still check Spacehey at least once a day, I have a little over a hundred friends on there but maybe 5-10 at the most that I actually communicate with, and many of them are here now.
@Greg (DGS) yeah i see that for sure, having a site back that's similar is only one part of the equation, but there's a deep nostalgia for simpler moments in time and whatnot (back when blackberry phones were more popular and you couldn't escape fred)
it's nice that most of them migrated over here though:]
@majesstiqe right... it's definitely better than nothing and worth a try.
Spacehey had it all years ago then the mighty has fallen!
the only thing that i know that happened personally was that it was banned in the us T-T which is where i live and it was very sad
They never added any feature requests over there. I like how the owners of this site do!
i've been using spacehey for a loonggg time. all of this is just based on what ive seen and heard from other spacehey users, some spacehey blogs and some outsiders looking in. there is a chance i could be wrong about most or all of this.
it started with the gore spammers that would make their profile layouts irl gore and put them on the layouts tab and clickbait blogs that also have gore. there wasnt much done about it afaik besides locking down layouts so no one could upload new ones. the layouts are still locked down to this day
i think the real downfall happened when spacehey got region blocked for the uk and some us states. and then the invite only thing started when the gore problem started coming back(at least based on the blogs i saw around the time the invite only thing was implemented). a lot of people also suddenly got their pfps taken away which killed off most users. myself included loollll
also there's generally less upkeep and communication from an. he doesnt communicate with his community and much less his mods. he apparently fired most of his mod team too and from what ive seen there's only 2 left</3
ive also seen drama between some popular users but im personally not super into that and idk what happened. it all happened while i was off the site. but apparently that also killed off some users
hopefully the spacehey comes back better than ever, it was a really fun site and had a large userbase while it lasted but i doubt it will
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