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Today, SpaceHey turns two! Time really flies when you're having fun! 🥳
The past two years have been a blast! SpaceHey grew to nearly 600k users, SpaceHey turned into a big, friendly community and there are now hundreds of thousands of blog entries, forum topics, bulletins and - last but not least - millions of Instant Messages! And that's what today's update is all about!
Introducing the all-new SpaceHey IM
One of the most used features on SpaceHey is the Instant Messenger: it allows you to chat with your friends on SpaceHey in 1:1 conversations!
It worked pretty well in the past 2 years, but I always imagined it to be better in many ways and unleash it's full potential: It could look way better, it could be faster, and it should be optimized for mobile browsers even better.
That's why I've spent the past weeks finally! working on those aspects - and the result of it is a completely new SpaceHey Instant Messenger with a new design, new features and a faster backend!
The old SpaceHey IM
What's New
The new Instant Messenger has a completely new, retro design which works super-well on both mobile and desktop browsers. Chat messages are now delivered in nearly real-time, and you can filter your chats to only show messages from your "Favorite Users" list!
The new SpaceHey IM prominently shows the current status of the chat participants, so your friends can easily see what you're up to!
Delete messages & control who can message you!
But that's not all! There are also two new, highly-requested IM features rolling out today: The option to fully delete messages for both chat participants and the option to customize who can start an IM conversation with you!
Until now, only your Friends could start IM conversations with you. But now, you can change it to include everyone on SpaceHey - or nobody - to completely disable IMs - if you want to! You can change this setting in your Account Settings.
Thank you to every single one of you!
I want to take this special day as an opportunity to say thank you. Thank you for all the support, the suggestions and all the kind words in the past 2 years (I still can't believe it's already 2 years)! SpaceHey wouldn't be as awesome and fun as it is without every one of you - so THANK YOU!
Additionally, I want to give a huge shout-out to everyone who supports SpaceHey - no matter if it's a donation, or buying some merchandise - SpaceHey couldn't exists financially without you! You can support SpaceHey here →
I hope you enjoy this big IM update today! And now, let's all celebrate the second anniversary of SpaceHey together! 🥳
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An
It seems like the update broke a few servers, so SpaceHey might be a bit unstable right now. Sorry! I'm working on it!
UPDATE:
Everything should be back online and fully working! Please let me know if anything doesn't work for you!
Enjoy the SpaceHey IM update!
Happy Birthday!
by Zaroova; ; Report
Mines doing the same thing as cypher’s
by xXExpulziveXx; ; Report
Yeah IM’s don’t work for me, keeps telling me I’m offline… went in and fiddled with my account and still; nothing ):
by ༒𐌂𐌏𐌏𐌊𐌆𐌄 Z𐌏𐌑𐌁𐌆𐌄༒; ; Report
Gunna check brb
by xXExpulziveXx; ; Report
Nope, didn’t work:(
by xXExpulziveXx; ; Report
No, I use my drawing tablet for spacehey so I have a keyboard, and there’s no update fir me
by xXExpulziveXx; ; Report
I can't thank you enough An!!
by 𝙱𝚎𝚎 🐝; ; Report
Why can we only upload one pic, Mypsace was able to upload many
by Mike Schreiber; ; Report
Why can we only upload one pic, Mypsace was able to upload many
by Mike Schreiber; ; Report
Happy Anniversary!!! 🎉
by Alba Nuvo; ; Report
Happy birthday Spacehey
by Kiki/Kiko; ; Report
New here but happy birthday!
by Tennesseelover; ; Report
Still owe me the Supporter tag
by Quentin; ; Report
Let's run Zuckerville out of business! -Diobolos, Undead Prince Of Pennsylvania V''''V
by The Pittsburgh Ghoul Order; ; Report
Thank you for your passion in coding. 💗
by Uzzi; ; Report
MR KILL MYSELF
happy (slightly belated) birthday to spacehey!
SiderealSInger Streams
It would be cool if you can do video chat on here
luna
hi.....
charlie the vampire 🦇🩸
ALMOST AT 3 🎊
Jinx
I'm so glad this site exists, tysm for making it!
I'm so abandoning FB for this lol
fr lol
by charlie the vampire 🦇🩸; ; Report
Cervidae
photo and video uploads? dark mode? layout templates? built-in playlists? group chats? status updates? :3
Jason Anderson
Stream Statues, Photo Albums, Bands profiles Are a MUST to have if spacehey to survive
Skorps
Please add photo galleries!
square
I'm so happy that I found SpaceHey. It's just a non-fleeting experience~
YESS
by remmy; ; Report
Pluto
happy bday posers :D
⸸Ꭰҽąէհჯ_ჯᎠɾҽąʍҽɾ⸸
I am not sure if it is something you want to do, but I know if there is an option to pay for subscriptions to allow us to upload pictures to albums, thus we play for the server space and continue to pay for the server space each month. Just a baby idea, but a few of us have been brainstorming this idea. It's a good way to add more money to pay for servers.
I don't know if it is a feasible idea at all, because I don't know how much servers are or to keep them funded once server space is purchased. Either way, I love this site and am so thankful that you created it!
Vernon Mahoney
Thank you so much for all the work that you do!!!
Moonlightt_Editz
HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY SPACEHEY
SheHoff
Just found SpaceHey today. Everything is awesoooome! 🎶 Breath of fresh air.
TZone
So-so turned out to be a messenger
Noé
Would a dark mode be considered for the next update? I like many others cannot handle the default white colors of the site.
!! this id love to see a dark mode
by Anakin; ; Report
i agree, a dark mode would def be easier on the eyes
by SceneDemon; ; Report
rai_Blogz08
FANTASTIC UPDATE!
Starz
I forgot to say thiz but Thankz for fixing mine (and hopefully otherz) IMz!
^_^
BLADER
WOOHOOOOOO!!!!!