The dipthongs over at the world’s shittiest website, MySpace, have had the site inoperable/down since 6:30PST, it is now over 5 hours later and nothing is fixed. Needless to say, my site has received a lot of visits/comments on MySpace downtime from kids wondering whats up. Who’s going to make the MySpace killer? Just import people’s profile and friends (reserve a spot for them by email address until they make it over) and transfer all that information, it’d be genuis. MySpace doesn’t deserve a second (or 22nd for those of you keeping track) chance…
Actually, I’ve already been hoping to make the myspace killer. It’s good to see I’m not the only person with the same idea of importing myspace profiles into a better website…
Only problem thus far is the money required to start ‘er up. If we could get a donation fund going, that just might work…I know I’d pay a couple dollars to have my visit completely Ad and AdBlock free. Maybe if something was set up allowing people to prepay for the site…hmm…now you’ve got me thinking.
Anyways, at least we’re on the same page. Now lets just convince the rest of the world.
I’m sure we’re all thinking it, it’s just implementing it and making it ‘sticky’ enough to work. I don’t think a simple “it’s not broken as much” incentive will do it..
I’m sure I have the know-how as far as the user end…as in what users want, regardless of whether they know it or not. With something like this, users will fall in love the first time they use it, and they will force all their friends to switch over to talk to them because it’s better and they don’t like Myspace.
Not to mention, first day Myspace goes down, all the kids have to signup somewhere. Just for this most recent outtage, Facebook saw 500 pageviews per million Alexa pageviews over what they were currently at, bringing it to the highest point it’s ever been at.
If they were worth a damn, some of those users might stay. You know, like if maybe they implemented a few of the following off-the-top-of-my-head suggestions:
– What happened to web 2.0 Myspace? They implement it with a few features, like your Top Friends, but fail to integrate much in the way of javascript for usability. The search box at the top of every page that doesn’t search for something in particular, is particularly useless. Why not instead go with something like Flickr.com’s search box…it’s pretty nifty and ahead of the curve. Oh, and do I even have to mention doing something to allow Myspace to check for new messages via AJAX and alert me with a nice sound or flashing window when I have one (at my request of course).
– Hey buddy, that email you have is 3 years old. Of course, Myspace won’t ever bring it up, but when you try to change your email via account settings, it never sends the confirmation email. Why not? Well, because they might get lucky and you’ll sign up for a 12th Myspace account with your updated email address. And when you try to cancel that old myspace so that people quit stalking you, you won’t get a response, because they like to have the highest possible user count. A social networking website should be real about what is going on on the site. They should tell you who hasn’t been on in over a month or two, and only count there users that have been active sometime in the last nine months or so…
– Last time I checked, I didn’t like having to delete a picture so I could upload another one…especially considering they will both be so low-res that you can hardly see a face in a full-length shot. Myspace: it’s a few hundred megabytes per account per month…if even that much! Give people the freedom to upload more photos so they don’t have to go to third party sites like photobucket or imageshack to upload them and clutter their already screwy profile with more code full of misleading links. Bottom line, people want pictures…let them have ’em.
– Why is it that my profile consists of about 343 tables all nested and crap? Why is it that I can’t do something simple, like, say add a line of CSS to hide the whole box showing my extended network? I mean, “.extendednetwork { visibility: hidden; }” and that’s it? It’d be so much easier on people, and they would save a heap of bandwidth from profiles that have 233 lines of code to do the same damn thing!
– Why can’t I send a text message to MYSPA and get an SMS message back with all my unread profile messages? Huh? You can do it for free…it’s SMS…you just need a 5-digit easy access number…a few grand out of a rather large pocketbook.
– Oh, and did I mention the fact that I might not like the default colors of, say, the Myspace Music Player? Maybe I want to be able to make it match my page…and all you have to do: Tell your devs to let that be selected via flashvar…and add just another mini tidbit to your profile editing screen.
– I might have also forgot to mention the fact that last time I was talking to the president of one of the largest websites in the world, he used someone reasonable grammar, and was able to capitalize the first letter in a sentence. I don’t like being told “we really suck about keeping site up” by a mid-thirties man that has access to my account. Maybe someone who can talk to the users of the site with some level of decency?
– Customer Support. If you look that up in a dictionary, well, it’s wrong. A dictionary obviously doesn’t understand that messages sent to customer service, including those revolving messages reporting spam, abuse, child porn, harrassment, or defamation are never to be responded to. In fact, don’t even bother reading them. Just delete them as they come in. AND! To make it easier on the deleters, lets make the form a real pain in the ass to use..that’s customer service!
– QUIT LYING. You don’t routinely do maintainance…you frequently try to fix shit you messed up on. Nobody believes you…just come out and say: we really messed up here, but we’ve found the problem and we’re working on it.
I could literally go on until I pass out at the keyboard, but I’ll leave you with just those few…
Myspace, really, sucks.
In addition, I’d really like to give facebook a try, but I don’t feel like chatting with kids that go to a high school I went to 4 years ago, and my college doesn’t issue email addresses…nice thinking guys…I’d have sent you something like an ID and/or class schedule…but nooo…I have to have an email that doesn’t exist.
well, i don’t really know why you people don’t like myspace. it helps people like me get my name out easier, and much cheaper. so why don’t you just forget about the myspace killer,make a better and more addictive site… come on now, your site will eventually be hated as much as myspace.