Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted
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Re: Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted
#2Talk about rose-colored glasses and "the good ol' days". All I can remember are the animated gifs flash and spinning around on people's pages...
Re: Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted
#3Ah, MySpace, I think I made thousands of custom MySpace themes, hacking their complete lack of html escaping to change the layout. I wonder if they'd stil allow that same level of jankiness
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#4Talk about rose-colored glasses and "the good ol' days". All I can remember are the animated gifs flash and spinning around on people's pages...
That's what I miss. Some level of personality is desperately missing from modern alternatives.
Re: Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted
#5Talk about rose-colored glasses and "the good ol' days". All I can remember are the animated gifs flash and spinning around on people's pages...
True, but it was all quite harmless. Today's perfectly designed web sites are made by folks who know exactly how to make you addicted to the algorithmic feed and whatnot.
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#6As a MySpace fan, I don't want it back at all. Can we stop this rehashing of memories and come up with something new?
Great for its time, but with the way the internet is, it will just turn in to another toxic echo chamber.
Next up: Toy Story 7, Andy finds a Sinclair ZX Spectrum in the attic and its missing its 16kb expansion module called Chippy.
Re: Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted
#7As a MySpace fan, I don't want it back at all. Can we stop this rehashing of memories and come up with something new? Great for its time, but with the way the internet is, it will just turn in to another toxic echo chamber. Next up: Toy Story 7, Andy finds a Sinclair ZX Spectrum in the attic and its missing its 16kb expansion module called Chippy.
It's not for you or me - it's for the AI companies so that they can have "human" content (good luck with that).
Re: Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted
#8Ah, MySpace, I think I made thousands of custom MySpace themes, hacking their complete lack of html escaping to change the layout. I wonder if they'd stil allow that same level of jankiness
I can see large amounts of exploits and scams being a thing these days.
Re: Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted
#9Talk about rose-colored glasses and "the good ol' days". All I can remember are the animated gifs flash and spinning around on people's pages...
Pages with personality like that are not just examples of how bad UX can be, they are examples of how UX can be used as an artistic form of self-expression.
Re: Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted
#10Talk about rose-colored glasses and "the good ol' days". All I can remember are the animated gifs flash and spinning around on people's pages...
I miss that quite a lot. For the past 20 years the Web has been a sterile wasteland full of minimalist white and grays and 0 personality.