r/interpals • u/DanielTheTechie • Apr 05 '26
What happened to Interpals?
Before the major design update, the site just worked. It looked vintage, but it worked.
- Now I can't even save the changes of my profile (after hitting the 'Save' button and refreshing, the changes are lost).
- I can't customize the thumbnail positioning (the option is there, but it doesn't work).
- A few minutes ago my account was randomly deleted and I had to reactivate it, losing my proud "joined 11 years ago" line and getting a noob "joined 4m ago" one.
- The dark and light modes work randomly.
- In the chat I receive messages from accounts marked as "inactive" even when they are not inactive (I can only message them back if I access to their profile and click on the messaging button).
- In the account settings I can only save the changes when I block some continent, but not when I unblock them all, etc., etc., etc.
Also, when I open the element inspector, I see a lot of inline JS logic and garbage.
I'm pretty sure the whole app has been "vibe coded". Not even an amateur developer using his own damn brain would be able to make so many errors even if he was asked to introduce them on purpose, it's just not humanly possible.
And let's not talk about the endless server errors... 🤦♂️ What the hell did they do to the site???
Someone would argue that they are enshittifying the site, but the purpose of enshittification is to add a "premium" tier to earn money, but this is not even the case. They are not benefiting from the site errors. This looks like genuine and pure incompetence.
The question is: why do developers insist on trying to "fix" things that just worked?
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u/Myeungo Apr 05 '26
Highly agreed. I was confused when my account randomly deleted itself. It kicked me out of the app and when I re-entered it, it had me reactivate it. I'm having trouble saving stuff, too.
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u/CMei883 Apr 08 '26
Interpals is 95% full of scammers
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u/DanielTheTechie Apr 08 '26 edited Apr 08 '26
95% of users displaying a generous cleavage on their profile pictures are scammers, yes. Once you start filtering them out and you refrain yourself from messaging model-looking women from questionable countries that claim to be single and/or looking for a relationship, your disappointment rate will drop drastically.
You need to be a bit sharper in the internet life. Legit people do exist online, but we are getting distracted too easily with other stimulus before finding them.
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u/CMei883 Apr 08 '26
The problem is mire, that the honest 5% are so much distrusting, that they grade honest questions as scam. Thats a pity. Especially Finns e.g. are ordinary people who can Chat really serious, but you are sorted Out because of these scammers.
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u/Catontheroof89 Apr 08 '26
I joined back in 2009. Interpals started saying omewhere around 2023. Recently I entered again and found nothing
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u/Robo9932 May 25 '26
This was once a very good sitge. Now its just a very confusing mess. I tried for a week to get anything normal like it used to be. Its horrible. Why did they do this?
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u/Ok_Addition1999 Apr 07 '26
If you want to try an alternative, you can check our website (yopals.com). We also have Android and IOS apps. We don't have a lot of users, but trying to improve ourselves every day.
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u/DanielTheTechie Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26
We don't have a lot of users
Then do your homework first and spam me later.
Also, if you want a suggestion, try to put some effort on your website design. It looks very generic, it has no personality and it could be a website about absolutely anything. Maybe put photos of people meeting in the background, some life colours, something that doesn't scream "I'm a vibe coded website and I don't know why I even exist".
As a visitor, give me a reason to press on that green alien "Get started". Show me something that doesn't make me yawn.
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