How is this not copyright infringement?
Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
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Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
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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?
Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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-...
Thanks for this one, it encapsulates a feeling I've had for a while but could never verablize so well.
Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
#134NextDNS is complaining about the domain and blocks it. Anyone else had this issue?
Nope, I'm on NextDNS and haven't had issues since he first announced it.
Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
#135How is this not copyright infringement?
It is
Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
#136I 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?
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.
SpaceHey does too, but if you don't set one you get profile?id=$int
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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...
> 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.
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Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
#138I'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
thank you :)
Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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-...
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.
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#140> 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.