SpaceHey being dead pretty much has to do with the fact that most people just use it as a fun way to decorate a userpage since normal social media sites don't allow people to do that. Same with all of the strawpages and rentrys, people are just tired of the stale corporate platforms. I mean, I'm kind of off and on but there's not much of an incentive to come back if that's all SpaceHey is for most people. It's not really structured to be a forum space, since many people are used to the constant dopamine hits offered by algorithms and trackers. I do believe in forum supremacy, but literally no one uses forums anymore, I use them because I quit/got banned from everything else. If SpaceHey wants to establish itself as a conversational space, forums would need to be highlighted more and there needs to be more out reach on more popular social media outlets. I only found out about this site because a school shooter used it like 9 months ago. I was too young for MySpace.

I've noticed a significant age gap on SpaceHey—most users seem to either be between 12 and 17 years old or, like me, 30 years or older. This creates an interesting divide in the user base, but it also feels like a challenge in terms of fostering meaningful connections.

Most people seem to tinker around with SpaceHey for a day or two, then never return. The main reason, quite frankly, is that they struggle to find people to connect with or have engaging conversations. The forums are too unorganized, making it difficult to navigate and participate in discussions. I’m not even sure if we get notifications when someone comments in a forum we’ve participated in. Is there a way to monitor forums for new activity? If not, this is a crucial feature the site needs to implement. Keeping users informed and engaged is key to building a thriving online community.

The user interface (UI) also needs improvement with many quality-of-life changes. For example, why do I see 3-year-old forum posts by default? It would be much more intuitive if the latest activity was shown first. Forums in general should be more prominently highlighted and better categorized to make them easier to explore. Another frustration is the unnecessarily complicated process of embedding media like YouTube videos, Spotify tracks, or Bandcamp songs—this could be vastly simplified.

I also believe the platform would greatly benefit from a tagging system. Allowing users to add tags based on their interests would make it easier to connect with others who share those same interests, enhancing the social experience and making connections more meaningful.

On a broader scale, SpaceHey should focus more on supporting the music scene and artists. Making it easier for bands to promote their music, allowing users to add, rate, and review albums, and even giving artists a space to upload galleries of their work would be great features.

Lastly, personalizing and designing profiles, one of the nostalgic charms of platforms like this, should be easier and more intuitive.

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I feel like SpaceHey is trying hard to be a MySpace clone but is missing the mark on why people loved MySpace in the first place. MySpace wasn’t perfect—so instead of giving us an authentic but outdated version, focus on the aspects that made it great while improving everything else.

Nostalgia alone won’t keep users around. MySpace had its charm, but people today expect a more refined and functional experience. SpaceHey should capture the positive aspects, like profile customization and a focus on music and self-expression, while modernizing the user experience. The cluttered forums, outdated features, and lack of meaningful ways to connect aren’t going to engage users in the long run.

Instead of leaning too heavily into the past, SpaceHey has the potential to evolve into something better—a platform that celebrates the MySpace spirit but embraces modern design and usability.

It's just a very niche social platform. Personally I won't really be using this to interact with other users but mostly to use as my personal blog and just link my profile to other social media. You can't expect such a niche space to be popular. This website could benefit from advanced search features and more quality of life improvements. I think it would be nice to find a good balance between old social media and modern social media. We need more features and interesting things to do.
As example there's no section that lists the latest forum threads that have been created. When I go to forums I just see a ton of sub forums and there's no info about last posts, so I just find it overwhelming and close it.
Website is very cool but still feels bare-bones lacking some essential features. A dark mode option is needed too.

Another example,  I just posted this comment and when coming back to the heyspace forum, this thread still appears at the bottom even though it says a new comment was posted a few minutes ago. Why doesn't the thread get bumped to the top? 

I have thought that exact same thing once. I first joined spacehey 2 years ago in the hopes of getting to know other users from them commenting on the stories and poems that can take me many months to perfect. So I began to write. I have always worked tirelessly night and day with my stories and have almost never received a single comment to anything that I have ever written. I continued writing but was always overlooked and I was becoming fed up with this. I left spacehey about a year ago and I didn't intend on ever coming back. I came back lol but don't intend on working my @$$ off with writing stories anymore. It's just not worth the sleepless nights and the hard effort to just be ignored everytime ...

I've been here since the start of the year or so, I've got a couple of friend requests etc that I still haven't responded to. I feel kinda guilty about it, but I'm just dealing with a lot of stress in my life right now. I really want to be an active user.

I just joined and I want to love it so bad but i'm bored. No one talks and can't make my own layout. I'm a bit sad.

I love the concept but I think the problem is that its full of 13-16 year old kids and not enough people who actually had myspace know about this app.

I always try to get my friends in Zuckerville to come over here toSpacehey. I think people have had their habits programmed for Facebook and the other sites, despite all the data mining and the whistle blowing incident of 2021 when Facebook got in trouble.

Imagine that > This was posted 3 yrs ago to the day and I guess the site is still kinda like that in terms of social interactivity. I joined in Sept this yr, returning in Oct after I figured out how to decorate my profile and I too have notice the same issue as you.

At first I thought maybe the site doesn't have alot of users or  maybe that because the site doesn't market itself, not alot of people know about it, or maybe people just log on to play games (like on Pogo.com) or maybe people come here to read mangas or something -  but then it's said that this site recently crossed it's 1 million milestone and so far from my exploring, there doesn't seem to be any other pass time activity available, besides interacting with the Forums and your friends Bulletin Posts.

So I guess maybe like me - people join and then leave? - least for a while, like how I did? Idnk.

It is possible that some people don't know how to use this site as well, since it's entire layout is different from what most of us have grown used to on Social Media sites like FB, Deviantart, Twitter etc. 

(Like sure I had a My Space account back in 2010 when they were slowly closing down, but I never used it, so all of this is new to me in general. Case in point, It took me 5 days to figure out where my notifications are - like where I go to find out if anyone replied to me or not ^.^" )

Everything on most platforms like FB, is designed for instant gratification and instant access to people - (which often leads to negative outcomes for some, like being trolled on.) Not so much on here, so maybe that too doesn't really appeal to some people.

You had this thought 3 years ago, so I'm only adding to the topic based on from what I felt when I joined just a couple hours ago. Activeness seems to be tricky. SpaceHey is potentially interesting when you go to browse and see how much active users shuffle. The layout is comforting. 

i'm here!

I'd really like to invite my IRL friends to create their own accounts here, but I do believe a huge portion of Gen Z has a very low attention span and would get bored with this site. Not to sound pessimistic but that's all I see where I live, and it's very disappointing.

This post was created 4 years ago and I can confirm it's still dead lol. I joined myspace in 2005 so yes I'm in my 30s. From what I can tell, there's a bunch of 18 year olds on here. To be honest I only joined like an hour ago and haven't really tinkered around the website. This definitely brings back memories from the simpler times of social media. This website is almost identical to the OG myspace.

Certainly is quiet here. At least, I could ramble to my heart's content. I just have to know how to embed images correctly!! :<

Three years later and the site is still kicking.

I try to welcome new users when I can but I also don't want to seem like I'm hoarding friends so I only really hit up people with shared fandoms and stuff. Maybe I'll try to be more active with it though

well i just joined the site. And it looks HELLA excitingg!! its quite silent here which is great!! hope i make some frnds here

Yeah, it's a little dead. I honestly got into SpaceHey through TikTok to make friends, but I don't think this app is really a social go-to app for many. I like decorating/styling/updating my profile but no socialising really going on. It feels like people use it for a day and get offline immediately after socialising. :(

I get on SpaceHey pretty regularly but I'm scared that I actually might drift away from SpaceHey. Sadly, the "last active" bar would probably go by: hours, days, weeks, months, years and continuing

I'm still hopeful though ^^

Agreed, even though the only forum I could compare this one to is the one of ximboland.. That one is like so damn active and the only one I've ever actually been a part of. The people there are writing comments every single day,(even though its a game) reading and sharing their thoughts on the forums, while here everyone seems afraid to go out of their comfort zone. 

This can't really be a social platform without socialising. Most people are probably here for fun (to make their profile and such), but to me it just seem so fun to just like, have friends who log on once in a while to share their thoughts?

that's just so romantic to me in somehow, away from the usual social media

I feel like there are some features this website could incorporate better. such as the ability to upload pictures or videos for example, or group chatting. The existence of ways for people to be more active with each other would really do this site a service...

But there is a dilemma about whether these features are "too much" so i could somewhat understand why this website is being stagnant when it comes to new features.

Given that this is a niche social media community, it's a blessing that not everyone knows about it. The people who are on here may take some time to become more active. But be grateful that it's still in that honeymoon phase of social media platforms. Myspace was definitely more active in its day, but it was never the suffocating, mass-populated monstrosity that Instagram and Facebook became--and TikTok. 

Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok were once little digital havens of peace that people could actually enjoy and engage organically with others, and experience real creativity and autonomy in a digital community, before everyone and I mean everyone--and their grandma--flocked to them, and ads and greed and complicated algorithms ruined the entire experience. Myspace was just put out of its misery before that ever happened to it. Blessed with an early death, RIP.

My point is, this site may be a little slow on the uptake, but it's better that way. Let it grow organically and by word-of-mouth, rather than let on to the masses that it exists. Everybody's grandmas and aunties, all the celebs, and money-mongering clout-chasing influencers can stay away. That day may come and ruin this site like it has ruined all the others. But maybe we can have something nice for a while again before that happens. Let's just focus on the community that is here, and invite close friends we have in real social groups to engage with us here. Keep the club cool for a little while, yeah?

I think it depends about what kind of people do you surround yourself with here. My friends here are very active do that's why I don't think that SpaceHey is dead.

In the short time i've been here i've witnessed the servers being a little unreliable. If SpaceHey really was far more active than it is, i'd hate to think what the speed of the site would be like at that point. From what i gather it appears that most people customise their profile, add a few people then slowly visit less until no longer visiting at all.

On MySpace i found that people would talk to each other more. I do agree that the lack of communication can hurt this place. Making actual friends is more than just pushing a button. Though one thing i really enjoyed about MySpace that isn't present here is the photo galleries. Just being able to show people a group of photos, and being able to see into friends lives with their photos. It gave more of a reason to be on the site and active. It felt less cold and generic as FB, and really the only other site that ever gave me a similar feeling to MySpace was a platform called Bebo.

SpaceHey with a little TLC and couple of extra features could be really good. It does require people do engage more with each other also, and i fear this maybe a issue of modern times rather than something SpaceHey can fix. I hope this place doesn't die, but more than likely it'll continue as it is for years to come.

I've managed to make a few friends on here who are regularly active, you just have to find the right people.

I'll add you as a friend and if you accept I promise I will engage with you at least a couple times a week, probably more. I really want a site like this to work out, as I agree about all the modern social media crap. The new stuff just seems so "cookie cutter" and shallow.

For real. I posted something in one of the groups I’m in asking for music recs, and all the recent forums are dead.

From my experience with the site, I don't think it is dead. There are a bunch of people online every day and new users show up regularly. Some forums also receive new posts and comments from time to time, but I would like to see people being a bit more active. My biggest issue is like many other have mentioned that people don't socialze enough with eachother. 

My conclusion: Could it be more active? Yes. But it’s definitely not dead.

to paraphrase tyler durden; we determine our own level of involvement.  

all too often i see posts where it's like OH GERSH WHY AINT IT ACTIVE

its up to us collectively to pull up our sleeves and get involved

thats it, there's no other answer rly :o

I wonder why no new features are being added.. photo albums, status feed and music pages.. It's way too bare bones

gonna go out on a limb and assume that the main reason new features haven't been added is that this site was started durin lockdown as a fan project, and was never anticipated to become so widespread, such bein talked about on tiktok etc.

however the increased user base has obviously led to strain on the server, hence the site periodically 504'ing so imagine how it would be with additional resources bein used up on the regular

the obvious solution is upgradin the servers, but its all costly, and maybe the owner doesn't have the capital to put up rn, idk

im thinkin of making a few donations tbf, i love it here, all the creativity etc. 

totally my vibe

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Well, I'll say one thing. If this site's got a UFO and paranormal group, it's not dead. The problem to me is it's typical of our era. I've tried commenting supporting messages on people's posts (because it's like, okay these kids are pouring their hearts out, and no one's replying) and I get radio silence. That's all it is. It's a populated site it's just no one feels comfortable talking, and not everyone's like me where they want to take the time to reach out. It's also just a lack of respect for others. I mean no I don't want to talk to every person who talks to me, but I grew up where I had to respectfully talk to them. And sometimes those forced conversations led to good friendships.

Now the fact that I'm looped in with kids is a separate issue. I think the content one sees should be geared by age, so that if I'm 30 I see posts from my own age range. Not that I have a problem with it. I mean I was 15 hanging out with 30 year olds, but not everyone feels comfortable with that. 

I actually agree with the first comment. You need a welcome team to volunteer to message new accounts and make them feel welcome. I also agree with gloomybear420, a spotlight concept where people have their art or creative projects showcased would be cool. 

brother we are all fried from the constant stream of validation that regular social media gives us. this is what is nice about it- its a DIARY. honestly i'd prefer for it to stay dead and to stay on my computer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i personally don't interact with others on here, i just like to be able
to decorate my page since i cant on most other social medias, but yeah
it would be better if there was a bit more interaction (sorry for my english im not sure its right)

yeahh... today was my first time logging on in two years ill be fr. i think its about attention spans, mobile adaptibility, not being capitalism-centric... teenagers are what make any platform grow, and our teenagers (me) today have too burned attention spans for this right now. or they need to kick up marketing on tiktok and instagram. 

i mean you can always get your friends to join and make accounts so it's actually more useable. i think teenagers would love something like this - a totally customizable platform with nearly all other aspects of other platforms. it's just all their friends are on already popular platforms like snapchat and instagram.

perhaps stuff like spacehey clubs could do the trick? or people could just start saying stuff like "add me on spacehey" in actual conversations. it'll take a little bit to get picked up, but it's not impossible.

but then again, if it got super popular and all your friends were on it, whos to say it won't devolve into every other capitalist social media venture instead of maintaining it's unique and charming qualities that make it so much better than other sites?

I would soooo b more active on here but I can't code for shittt!! >_< Any tips are appreciated <3

I wouldn't say dead dead (as in inactive and a ghost town), but I'll occasionally be active here and there here to see what's new with spacehey, hell, I'll even update my layout once in a while to change things up.  

Fr

B-BUT I JUST GOT HERE ;-;

Gen Z just doesn't understand that the internet is a virtual space that you can attend voluntarily and not because your reward system in your brain has been hijacked by an algorithm. They also don't understand that you can do it for fun and not for status.

t. Gen z

https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=753003

I like the idea of spacehey clubs

I actually think this site is alright as long as you're not afraid to add people and post things and so on. You have to feed it manually. It won't feed itself. If you approach it like you do Facebook where you just sit around and scroll down your feed, and comment on articles and memes it's not going to work. MySpace was never like that even in the old days.

There are things the original MySpace had which this doesn't have, that hold it back in a big way.

First OG MySpace had a global search. I could search by country, age, gender, and I think orientation and a couple of other things, and get a list of people who met that criteria. Without that, you're just clicking on friends of friends and seeing if they're your type of person and sort of in your age group and if they're active, or hoping some rando adds you based on a forum post or something.

OG MySpace also had private forums which they way they worked, I think they were better than Facebook groups or Discord servers because they were better organized. That would keep things more lively, if they were added.

If the dev added those two things it still wouldn't be like OG MySpace - those days where MySpace was the dominant platform and it was just rocking out with everyone on the internet on there... those days are over forever - but I could see this becoming a legitimately big site. Not Discord or X big, but maybe something about the size of Telegram or Gab or something like that (but with a very different vibe ofc).