[HN Gopher] Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
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       Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
        
       Author : partyguy
       Score  : 478 points
       Date   : 2020-11-29 15:42 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (spacehey.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (spacehey.com)
        
       | JimWestergren wrote:
       | 18 year old, cool man. Respect.
        
         | partyguy wrote:
         | thank you :D
        
       | blhack wrote:
       | This is really great you guys. Good job! It really makes me
       | realize how much I miss the old internet.
        
       | gabereiser wrote:
       | Haha, I love the logo. Just a peg person saying "hey". This takes
       | me back for sure. I would ditch the footer disclaimer though
       | unless you really are trying to recreate MySpace in its entirety,
       | which is a legal grey area. I'm all on board for a MySpace-esque
       | experience again.
        
       | aerovistae wrote:
       | I'm curious, is password storage using 2007 techniques too? Or
       | are things like that a little more up-to-date? :P
        
         | cft wrote:
         | Since all MySpace passwords have been leaked online (my email
         | often gets spammed with my real MySpace password in the
         | subject), why not implement logins with that database?
        
       | landerwust wrote:
       | Totally loving this. Did you reverse engineer the layouts from
       | screenshots? Please tell me somewhere there is a snippet of
       | original HTML snarfed from archive.org :)
       | 
       | Finally you're totally missing a beat here -- MySpace lived and
       | died by its community of indie bands. Ditch that dodgy mainstream
       | iTunes Music wrapper and make the actual music function work
       | again. You never know, you might strike a nostalgic retro chord
       | within some niche of the indie community (and definitely that's
       | where this thing should be shared!)
        
         | partyguy wrote:
         | Hey, I'm An, the creator of SpaceHey! Thank you!! Yes, I looked
         | at a ton of old screenshots, wikipedia sites and archive.org
         | pages! That's how I designed most of it! I'm currently looking
         | into all of the legal stuff which comes with music sharing, but
         | a dedicated music feature is definitely planned! The iTunes API
         | is just a temporary thing to fill it with some content!
        
           | 5986043handy wrote:
           | What tech stack did you end up using for the backend?
        
             | AndrewLaneX wrote:
             | https://twitter.com/AnTheMaker/status/1332224148551118848?s
             | =...
        
             | D_B_Koopa wrote:
             | for it to be legitimate you need to use ColdFusion and then
             | do a half assed port to .net.
        
               | 83457 wrote:
               | I was at a CF conference with MySpace as a speaker and
               | they talked about how often they went down but that they
               | were switching to another CF engine with .net
               | capabilities (BlueDragon). Their discussions and jokes
               | about instability and going down due to bad code updates
               | were really cringy and gave the impression that their
               | platform was a mess.
        
               | rmason wrote:
               | Pretty certain we were at the same conference. There
               | development practices horrified the group I was with in
               | the audience. At a time that a new competitor appeared
               | (Facebook) they made the fatal mistake of rewriting their
               | software in dot Net. No new features for a year or more.
               | Joel Spolsky wrote a pretty famous essay about the wisdom
               | of doing that.
               | 
               | https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-
               | should-...
        
               | adrr wrote:
               | Performance was the feature. Friendster should have been
               | social network of that era but they couldn't scale and
               | had to shutdown new user registration. Same thing
               | happened to Twitter but they had no competitor in short
               | form social networking.
        
               | lowcodetv wrote:
               | Pownce?
               | 
               | "Twitter on steroids" [0]
               | 
               | [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pownce
        
               | conjectures wrote:
               | Thanks for this one, it encapsulates a feeling I've had
               | for a while but could never verablize so well.
        
               | jeremycarter wrote:
               | I live by that blog post.
        
               | jjeaff wrote:
               | I had an older friend that worked at CF when I was a
               | teenager. He taught me a bit about relational databases
               | and some other important stuff as he was one of the only
               | developers I knew growing up.
               | 
               | I remember him telling me how I was wasting my time
               | building in php/MySQL since CF was the future and serious
               | companies wouldn't be looking for php developers. Glad I
               | never pulled the trigger and bought their expensive IDE.
        
               | 83457 wrote:
               | No expensive IDE was necessary and there are open source
               | servers now. Regardless, you made the right choice.
        
               | bigiain wrote:
               | For proper early 2000s nostalgia, I reckon the backend
               | should actually be Apache mod_perl, with the ".cfm"
               | extension script aliased to Perl CGI scripts because
               | management tell everybody "it's running on Adobe!"...
        
               | zingermc wrote:
               | <cfdump var="bad_memories"/>
        
           | rangoon626 wrote:
           | Do a soundcloud integration like poolside fm did
        
             | codeulike wrote:
             | Yes this is a good point - people with music to share will
             | probably have it on Soundcloud or Bandcamp already, just
             | add Soundcloud/Bandcamp embedding and you're all set
        
           | peterburkimsher wrote:
           | How about the Dragon Hoard? Files are hosted on Archive.org,
           | and have been for a year and a half without being taken down.
           | 
           | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19569865
        
       | JMTQp8lwXL wrote:
       | The rebuild doesn't appear to be using React or Angular. Keeping
       | it true to 2007-style server-side rendering.
        
         | nobleach wrote:
         | You'd need to build it in ColdFusion cfm pages to really
         | capture that original flavor. They migrated to ASP.NET at some
         | point before everyone left.
        
         | est31 wrote:
         | SSR is also 2020 style. Most websites out there use it.
        
         | Aeolun wrote:
         | Isn't it great?!
        
       | cutitout wrote:
       | Playing around with it made me realize just _how_ much I miss
       | those good old derpy days, and how many great times I had on
       | myspace and then mostly forgot about. It made me a bit emotional
       | even. Thank you!
       | 
       | I don't have that much time atm, but I can't _wait_ to get into
       | the CSS and whatnot  <3
        
       | criddell wrote:
       | What's the connection to tibush.com?
        
       | webwanderings wrote:
       | Someone's soon going to recreate the facebook!
       | 
       | Is it just me or nobody realize that the likes of MySpace started
       | the downfall of the original Internet before it became "social
       | media"?
       | 
       | Nostalgia of a simple web page is fine (and this is a nice
       | implementation no doubt), but why recreate something that leads
       | to something that is predictable?
       | 
       | Instead, recreate usenet with better privacy and mobile adoption.
       | Usenet is what they killed before the promise of the Internet
       | could be realized.
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | onion2k wrote:
       | Cool. If anyone wants to connect -
       | https://spacehey.com/profile?id=316
        
       | arthurcolle wrote:
       | JK Rowling really joined this? Lol
        
         | ASpaceCowboi wrote:
         | NARUTO is back!!!
         | 
         | Gotta bring back the chibi art styles
        
       | comprev wrote:
       | NextDNS is complaining about the domain and blocks it. Anyone
       | else had this issue?
        
         | joshmanders wrote:
         | Nope, I'm on NextDNS and haven't had issues since he first
         | announced it.
        
       | GoatHerders2 wrote:
       | It's a shame about the name.
       | 
       | It might have succeeded!
        
       | typh00n wrote:
       | despite the opinion of some others here i _loved_ the old 2008
       | facebook. it's so sad how it all turned out 12 years later.
        
         | nv-vn wrote:
         | I think the 2008ish version of the internet was just a much
         | happier place. Part of why HN feels like a breath of fresh air
         | still
        
       | michaelmrose wrote:
       | I like this better than facebook.
        
       | IgorPartola wrote:
       | Could you make the login form's email field have type="email"?
       | Helps on mobile.
        
         | partyguy wrote:
         | Good idea! I changed it!
        
       | Toxygene wrote:
       | I'm not sure if/when it changed on the site, but MySpace listed
       | the time comments were made in the comment posters local timezone
       | instead of the readers timezone. It was such a strange thing that
       | I still remember it decades later.
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | pell wrote:
       | When I saw the title, I assumed I would just like it for the heck
       | of taking a look into the past. But in reality the nostalgia hit
       | very effectively, I really started remembering very good and
       | interesting times on that website I had when i was a teen. You've
       | done a really good job of capturing its magic.
        
       | rado wrote:
       | Wait, where's Tom? Seriously though, with a little visual touch
       | up this could become good.
        
       | nv-vn wrote:
       | Someone needs to do the same for YouTube ca. 2007
        
       | barnabee wrote:
       | Neat!
       | 
       | I'd sign up if there was an option to throw a few bucks your way
       | and have absolutely guaranteed zero tracking, ads, or sharing/use
       | of my data for anything other than what's strictly necessary to
       | run the site itself.
        
         | rocky1138 wrote:
         | I wouldn't mind ads if they were static or, at worst, .gif. No
         | tracking, no javascript, just a simple banner.
        
           | meekmockmook wrote:
           | Id pay 5 to 10 a month for no ads at all.
        
       | meekmockmook wrote:
       | As someone with extremely deep contempt for Silicon Valley, Big
       | Tech monopolies, and modern social media culture, this brought a
       | tear to my eye.It was so easy to make new friends online once
       | upon a time.
       | 
       | The fascist uniformity of modern social platforms has left a
       | generation creatively stifled and alienated from each other. I
       | miss the ugly comet cursors, the crummy MIDI tunes, the bad HTML,
       | the encouragement to make new friends, and the ability to reach
       | people without paying thousands in garbage ads.
       | 
       | I miss dating online without bribing some shitty algorithm. It
       | used to be that I could click "browse," find a cute girl's
       | profile, say hi, and set up a date within a few days. Modern
       | social media is cold and hostile. Stay in your friend group.
       | Avoid strangers: They're all scary and bad. Don't trust anyone
       | (except for us, the tech company. Give us all your data for
       | free.)
       | 
       | The internet used to be bohemian, weird, creative, tacky, and
       | friendly. It was my favorite place to be. Where did that joy go?
       | What have we become in the last 8 years?
        
         | Aldipower wrote:
         | These words are so true. I feel the same way. Nothing to add.
        
       | artursapek wrote:
       | Will this actually stay online? I will unironically use this.
        
         | partyguy wrote:
         | Yes, I'm planning to keep this online! I'll add more features
         | in the coming weeks!
        
           | cjdell wrote:
           | Dude this is actually awesome. Do you have a "buy me a beer"
           | link so we can help out with hosting costs?
           | 
           | Seriously you should make this the "Wikipedia" of social
           | media. No ads ever and people will use it.
           | 
           | By the way, just watched The Social Dilemma on Netflix. The
           | world needs people like you!
        
       | mhd wrote:
       | A convenient way to funnel people to my Black Cauldron geocities
       | fan page.
        
       | throwdour wrote:
       | Many creative people got their first public attention on MySpace.
       | Soundcloud never quite matched it. Facebook and Twitter are rat
       | races.
       | 
       | A re-run of MySpace, at scale, would be a benefit to the world. I
       | hope this takes off like a rocket (without losing its spirit.)
        
       | cl0ne wrote:
       | Nice work, I made a lot of good friends through the music section
       | of the old MySpace and have been working on something similar.
       | Facebook, Bandcamp, Soundcloud just aren't the same.
        
       | huntermeyer wrote:
       | > Error! You can only send one friend-request every two minutes.
       | Please wait a minute and try again.
       | 
       | This is going to slow down adoption.
        
       | bsanr2 wrote:
       | I want to join, but this carries over a lot of the same problems
       | that modern social media has developed - primarily, insight into
       | a heavy portion of my personal data and connections, without any
       | assurance that it won't be monetized in an untoward fashion. It
       | sucks, but it feels like Facebook et al.'s abuse of their
       | position has ruined this kind of centralized social media
       | platform forever. Promises aren't enough; it has to be built into
       | the platform structure. So I'm wary.
       | 
       | Sidenote: boy, do pages load fast, though. No cruft, I love it.
        
       | hans1729 wrote:
       | Hi! I registered and tried to message you, but that feature is
       | still being implemented :-)
       | 
       | Curious to see the progression from here on, great job!
        
       | xwdv wrote:
       | How is this not copyright infringement?
        
         | monk33 wrote:
         | It is
        
         | huntermeyer wrote:
         | IANAL but maybe the parody exception would protect them.
         | 
         | Kinda like, Nathan Fielder's "Dumb Starbucks".
         | 
         | Also, is website design even copyrightable?
        
       | crousto wrote:
       | This is nice! And reminds me of this other very cool MySpace
       | rebuild by artist/hacker Jankenpopp:
       | 
       | https://myspace.windows93.net/
        
       | T3RMINATED wrote:
       | Nice!! is this open source
        
       | ffpip wrote:
       | So this was what MySpace looked like. I've never seen it before.
       | Thanks :)
        
       | logicalmonster wrote:
       | Good idea. I think there's a lot of room for some kind of
       | internet social network that gives you a space for a custom
       | profile, chatting with friends about anything, no algorithms
       | dictating what you see, no heavy handed moderation, etc. wish you
       | success
        
         | duxup wrote:
         | That's what always keeps me away from regular social networks.
         | 
         | It's not my page, it's not my profile, it's just like everyone
         | else's....
        
         | pferde wrote:
         | We have more than enough of places like that, there's no need
         | to create (n+1)th. They all have the same problem - lack of
         | adoption, so the network effect is working against them.
        
           | [deleted]
        
         | doublepg23 wrote:
         | The Fediverse is creating a space like this. The best case is
         | you hosting your own server and being in control of all
         | moderation.
        
         | bassrattle wrote:
         | I agree. Today, that's a2b2.org. it used to be makeoutclub.com
        
         | jldl805 wrote:
         | I live and breathe on the internet and have never been
         | moderated once, even freely expressing myself, insulting people
         | who deserve it, etc.
         | 
         | My point here is that if you think the current social media
         | options have "heavy handed" moderation, you're probably the
         | problem, not them.
        
           | rriepe wrote:
           | Can anyone understand this sheep's baas?
        
           | sillysaurusx wrote:
           | Your assumption is that the moderator is fair. This is often
           | not the case.
        
           | javajosh wrote:
           | I was recently moderated for the first time in my (fairly
           | long) life by a social media site. I complained, and they
           | restored it, but it was jarring. My general impression is
           | that times they are a'changin' WRT moderation on the
           | interwebs.
        
           | skinkestek wrote:
           | Try to point out something correct but moderately
           | controversial.
           | 
           | I think I've been modded for:
           | 
           | - trying to get people to hate less on Russians
           | 
           | - on the other hand, in the same forum: trying to tell some
           | over eager people that no, Russians aren't saints and it
           | isn't _all_ NATOs fault.
           | 
           | - pointing out (as an insider that was supposedly one of the
           | victims in a major news story recently) that the "facts"
           | didn't check out at all.
        
           | logicalmonster wrote:
           | Maybe you don't have any out of the box ideas that goes
           | against the ideals of corporate America, but I'm certainly
           | glad that other people do.
           | 
           | Imagine if current Twitter was around in Galileo's time.
           | 
           | * Independent Fact Checkers have confirmed the consensus that
           | the Earth is the center of the Universe, just as God willed
           | it.
           | 
           | Or what if George Washington was relying on social media
           | during the formation of our country?
           | 
           | * Independent Fact Checkers have confirmed that paying taxes
           | to Britain is good and beneficial to the Colonies.
           | 
           | Many good ideas shatter the existing "consensus"
           | dramatically. I'm glad that boundaries can and do get pushed
           | because that's how we come up with better ideas and systems.
        
           | 762236 wrote:
           | You're probably being downvoted for your comment. Does that
           | make you the problem?
        
           | idclip wrote:
           | Not an SJW here, actually a political minority here ... i see
           | a moderate amount of moderation and banning pf groups where i
           | hang. Sure its not china but we are not using that asa
           | standard ..
           | 
           | and mate thats a ton of shaming in your tone .. please
           | consider showing some compassion. I fail to see how his
           | comment provoked yours ..
        
             | lovegoblin wrote:
             | > SJW
             | 
             | Hah people still use this term unironically?
        
           | kortilla wrote:
           | That just means your views are not very controversial (most
           | people's aren't).
           | 
           | The argument you're making is just a different face of the "I
           | have nothing to hide" in the privacy debates.
        
             | labster wrote:
             | I have controversial views (the EM Drive works! Sport is
             | the opiate of the masses!) but I seem to get along just
             | fine on social media. It's really only the people who have
             | boring, discredited political views who have problems.
        
               | rriepe wrote:
               | So if I tell my EM drive to leave and come back in six
               | months, that's a relativistic bomb, right?
        
               | bmarquez wrote:
               | "EM Drive works" is not a controversial view because most
               | people have no idea what you're talking about (I had to
               | Google it myself).
        
               | alacombe wrote:
               | > I have controversial views
               | 
               | This is nowhere controversial.
               | 
               | Try to be a constitutional originalist in the Sillicon
               | Valley / tech sites, and we'll continue this
               | conversation...
        
               | nindalf wrote:
               | > originalist
               | 
               | You mean the folks who think a black person is worth
               | 3/5th of a white person? Yeah I imagine they have it
               | rough.
        
               | [deleted]
        
               | alacombe wrote:
               | You're forgetting a aspect: the Constitutional clause has
               | been superseded by the 14th Amendment. So in this case,
               | an originalist would rule based on the Amendment, not the
               | just Constitution's original text.
               | 
               | And this display a crucial point, there is a legal
               | process to amend the Constitution not relying on a few
               | scholars re-re-re-interpretation. I'm all for a
               | Constitutional Amendment on abortion, as long as it's the
               | Will of the People, not the Will of a few jurists. If you
               | can get a Constitutional Amendment for the prohibition of
               | intoxicating beverages, you can certainly get a
               | Constitutional Amendment behind abortion... unless it's
               | less of a consensus as you make it seems. Also, using
               | one's 14th Amendment Right to privacy to "legalize"
               | abortion is a pretty weak argument.
        
               | aerovistae wrote:
               | The point is that originalism relies on the idea that the
               | Constitution was a nearly flawless document worth
               | preserving in its original form with a couple
               | adjustments, where in reality it was a deeply, deeply
               | flawed document that has been patched repeatedly to a
               | workable state but still has serious shortcomings.
        
               | mnouquet wrote:
               | That is blatantly false, originalism is relying on both
               | the Constitution + associated Constitutional Amendments.
               | As OP mentioned, the latter are not set in stone.
        
               | [deleted]
        
               | aerovistae wrote:
               | I'm already upset.
        
       | setgree wrote:
       | Sidenote: I was in a band in High School that uploaded all its
       | music to MySpace in 2006, and our only backups were a few CDs we
       | had made; so when MySpace lost all that [0], it was my first,
       | most painful lesson about backing up important things multiple
       | times.
       | 
       | [0] https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/myspace-
       | lost-m...
        
         | franciscop wrote:
         | I had recently lost some important data back then so luckily I
         | was already backing up data by then! Though now I have kind of
         | the opposite problem, I have too much data and it's difficult
         | to navigate through it all :)
        
         | CharlesW wrote:
         | Have you tried Internet Archive? You might be one of the lucky
         | ones.
         | 
         | https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/4/18295014/myspace-lost-song...
        
           | setgree wrote:
           | Alas, I have tried, we were not among the lucky.
        
             | clw8 wrote:
             | Same with me and my Geocities page from 1997 :(
        
         | UShouldBWorking wrote:
         | Nobody lost anything from myspace that they actively didn't
         | want. For over a year they announced the change was coming and
         | to download and back up you stuff. Even now a lot is still
         | backup on archive. Why are people so desperate to play the
         | victim all the time?
        
       | polynomial wrote:
       | MySpace had all the pieces in place to own the music download
       | space, and somehow let iTunes eat their lunch.
       | 
       | I don't know how that happened, but I suspect the new owner was
       | pulling profit out of it to support their other flailing
       | divisions, rather than let them reinvest to finish their music
       | platform.
       | 
       | They literally had all the pieces on the platform side, and it
       | was without question the platform of choice for pretty much every
       | independent musical artist.
       | 
       | Anyone have the inside story?
        
       | Dangbleed wrote:
       | I bet you will get a job too. The same way that Hollywood is
       | simply making remakes and people are accepting this as new.
       | 
       | A Nuclear bomb would be nice right about now. Covid was not
       | enough humble pie
        
         | bovermyer wrote:
         | Jesus dude, who crapped in your Cheerios this morning?
        
           | pcdoodle wrote:
           | haha, wish I could see the comment you're responding to.
        
             | hans1729 wrote:
             | > I bet you will get a job too. The same way that Hollywood
             | is simply making remakes and people are accepting this as
             | new. A Nuclear bomb would be nice right about now. Covid
             | was not enough humble pie
        
               | pcdoodle wrote:
               | Bwahahaha! Thanks xD
        
               | purplecats wrote:
               | how did you grab that
        
               | throwamon wrote:
               | enable showdead in your profile
        
             | throwamon wrote:
             | enable showdead in your profile
        
         | UShouldBWorking wrote:
         | Yikes, angry much?
        
       | ecommerceguy wrote:
       | I just got an error message about too many people trying to
       | create accounts. Keep it going! I'll buy ad space if you never
       | sell to big media.
        
         | pcdoodle wrote:
         | Same here! We're rooting for you!
        
         | Aeolun wrote:
         | Hard to not take those millions/billions. Here's to hoping
         | principles weigh more than money.
        
       | 2Gkashmiri wrote:
       | How about using that funkwhale with this ? That would be cool.
       | Right?
        
       | joshmanders wrote:
       | I've been beta testing SpaceHey since I saw An was letting some
       | people in and I must say the nostalgia is strong. Love this site
       | so much!
        
         | partyguy wrote:
         | Thank you for helping me test it!! :D
        
       | fortran77 wrote:
       | Is it still vulnerable to the Samy Kamkar worm?
        
       | Minor49er wrote:
       | Groups are still in progress. Those were the best part.
        
       | LockAndLol wrote:
       | Retro is somehow always in. Things always seem to come back in
       | some shape or form.
        
       | Aeolun wrote:
       | Oh, cool. I was wondering when a better replacement for Facebook
       | would show up.
        
       | ehutch79 wrote:
       | Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they
       | could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
        
       | furyofantares wrote:
       | Maybe weird feedback but the COVID-19 Pandemic section on the
       | front page really kills both the retro vibe and the idea that
       | this might be something unique rather than yet another way for me
       | to consume standard news.
        
         | meekmockmook wrote:
         | I'm with you. Lose the covid. Can find it anywhere else.
        
         | pcdoodle wrote:
         | I agree, I went to myspace to get away from the hive mind and
         | work in my space.
        
         | dvtrn wrote:
         | I had-interestingly-the exact opposite response. It kept the
         | waves of nostalgia in check by delivering a mild dose of
         | modernity to the experience that was subtle enough and works so
         | well with the rest of the presentation that I actually caught
         | myself smiling and nodding at it.
        
           | furyofantares wrote:
           | I think maybe I'd have had the same type of reaction to you
           | with a lighter modern news piece. The pandemic or politics
           | are both right out, but a clearly-new entertainment piece
           | would maybe elicit the same response from me that you've
           | described here.
        
       | makeworld wrote:
       | I never used MySpace, but this looks cool! Good idea to build off
       | the nostalgia. Just on first glance, I noticed you're using URLs
       | like https://spacehey.com/profile?id=123 for accessing profiles.
       | That seems like a bad idea, using increasing numbers for pages in
       | general is not great, because it makes it easy to scrape for
       | every user on the site. Why not switch to something like a UUID
       | or random base64 code?
        
         | wmij wrote:
         | The original myspace used the profile name for URLs -
         | https://myspace.com/some_name - maybe the reboot will
         | eventually. I tried with mine and it was a 404.
        
           | joshmanders wrote:
           | SpaceHey does too, but if you don't set one you get
           | profile?id=$int
        
             | wmij wrote:
             | Ok, thanks. I set what I thought was a username during
             | signup but looks like that was just the name. I see now
             | there's a second step going to
             | https://spacehey.com/settings and the username URL is
             | working for me.
        
         | CharlesW wrote:
         | Just curious: Why is this post with kind words and a seemingly-
         | helpful tip being downvoted? Is this bad advice for some
         | reason?
        
           | meowster wrote:
           | Maybe it's because it's advocating for security by obscurity?
           | It would probably be more resource-intensive for the server
           | if a bot were to scrape every single page to collect UUIDs
           | instead of methodically going through them.
        
             | CharlesW wrote:
             | Oh, that's interesting -- I hadn't considered that creators
             | of web apps might choose to do this to make scraping
             | easier. Generally, I've understood that exposing internal
             | IDs is undesirable.
             | 
             | [1] https://blog.jiayu.co/2018/09/methods-for-obfuscating-
             | sequen... [2]
             | https://stackoverflow.com/questions/396164/exposing-
             | database...
        
               | Minor49er wrote:
               | One way to avoid this is to look for something requesting
               | only profile pages, then cut them off after a certain
               | number of requests.
        
             | pjc50 wrote:
             | All sorts of incidents have happened this way. Somebody
             | even got arrested for pointing it out on some government
             | website, once.
        
       | bazeblackwood wrote:
       | You should definitely tell us how to donate to this effort. Bring
       | back the old web!
        
       | pickpuck wrote:
       | Nice you can add a <style> tag to your profile!
       | 
       | Please consider making the default colors/fonts CSS variables in
       | the :root so that they can be easily overridden for profile page
       | styling.
        
       | pcdoodle wrote:
       | Thank you so much for making this. I hated how sterile Facebook
       | was when it finally took over.
       | 
       | Are these pages going to index in google? I used to find lots of
       | "friends" by searching site:myspace.com female statename
       | interestname
        
         | meekmockmook wrote:
         | I did this too. God, dating online used to be so much fun!
        
       | tylerchilds wrote:
       | Super cool! Are you considering federation a la ActivityPub et
       | al?
       | 
       | Just thinking of a way for you to really stunt with what MySpace
       | could have been that Facebook or Twitter would never do.
        
         | zdkl wrote:
         | And even if federation is too big of a feature, maybe using the
         | ActivityStreams format for user interactions could be
         | beneficial.
         | 
         | https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/
        
           | superkuh wrote:
           | And if activitystreams are still too bloated you can look
           | into microformats2 and webmentions (indieweb).
        
       | varbhat wrote:
       | Website looks very very good and loads very fast imo. Just usable
       | without fancy bells. I like this design.
        
         | partyguy wrote:
         | Thank you :)
        
       | mrzool wrote:
       | I'm absolutely blown away by the speed of this website. Facebook
       | and Twitter are a bloated heavy mess in comparison.
       | 
       | I just registered for an account and I'm getting super nostalgic.
       | Really well done!
       | 
       | Edit: here's my profile in case someone wants to add me :)
       | 
       | https://spacehey.com/mrzool
        
         | partyguy wrote:
         | thank you :)
        
       | dt3ft wrote:
       | Aaand here is why we can't have nice things:
       | 
       | > Someone is currently trying to register hundreds of accounts
       | with fake email addresses per second. I'm trying to prevent that
       | so in the meantime you can't sign up on http://SpaceHey.com -
       | sorry.
        
       | meowster wrote:
       | Darn, I'm user number 300-something, and my real first name is
       | already taken as someone else's username.
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | simplecto wrote:
       | I sense a renaissance coming
        
       | eezurr wrote:
       | I really hope this takes off! A human curated/self exploring site
       | is a dream. I miss the myspace days when you could search by
       | location, genre, and sort the data in various ways. I discovered
       | so much music on my own, it was always an exciting adventure.
        
       | alberth wrote:
       | Tom
       | 
       | Don't forgot to have Tom be your default first friend.
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Anderson
        
         | NetBeck wrote:
         | "but most of all, samy is my hero"[1]
         | 
         | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_(computer_worm)
        
         | xyst wrote:
         | tom's looking a bit rough around the edges nowadays
        
           | meowster wrote:
           | It's tough work to spend half a billion dollars.
        
         | mooreed wrote:
         | This was my first thought too.
        
         | joshmanders wrote:
         | An (partyguy) and spacehey's official account are your friends
         | when you join, just like Tom was.
        
           | sitzkrieg wrote:
           | no whiteboard tho :(
        
       | mrits wrote:
       | If you built a web app in ASP.NET 1.x it would actually look a
       | lot like this without much modification.
        
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