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?
Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
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#32Sidenote: 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...
Have you tried Internet Archive? You might be one of the lucky ones.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/4/18295014/myspace-lost-song...
Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
#33I 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?
Just curious: Why is this post with kind words and a seemingly-helpful tip being downvoted? Is this bad advice for some reason?
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#34Thank 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
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#35Good 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
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.
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#36Darn, I'm user number 300-something, and my real first name is already taken as someone else's username.
Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
#37Sidenote: 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...
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?
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#38I 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
Yikes, angry much?
Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
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#40I 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?
Just curious: Why is this post with kind words and a seemingly-helpful tip being downvoted? Is this bad advice for some reason?
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.