If you built a web app in ASP.NET 1.x it would actually look a lot like this without much modification.
Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
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#4218 year old, cool man. Respect.
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#43Haha, 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.
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#44Totally 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…
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!
What tech stack did you end up using for the backend?
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#45Sidenote: 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...
Alas, I have tried, we were not among the lucky.
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#46The rebuild doesn't appear to be using React or Angular. Keeping it true to 2007-style server-side rendering.
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#47What's the connection to tibush.com?
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#48I 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
Jesus dude, who crapped in your Cheerios this morning?
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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...
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
All sorts of incidents have happened this way. Somebody even got arrested for pointing it out on some government website, once.