[jaygreco]

I spent quite a bit of time a few years ago recovering my old MySpace account only to realize they “messed up” (unclear whether it was incompetence, or purposeful) and deleted basically anything that had been, oh I dunno, actually interesting: pictures, videos, playlists…you can’t even see the profile pictures of people in your friends list.

In the rush to move to whatever the next big social media was, I’d never thought about backing up my stuff because why would it ever be gone and why would I care? Lesson learned.

I was weirdly bummed out about it. Back when the site first launched I spent loads of time learning HTML just to customize my page before I realized site profile generators existed.

[vel0city]

Yeah, they had a failed migration that led to losing most user content from 2003 to 2015 apparently.

https://www.rackwareinc.com/myspace-data-loss

[Firerouge]

MySpace seems to have never published a technical post mortem on the cause of the data loss.