This is wholesome. I realized how much I miss those days. Signed up - https://spacehey.com/offgrid365
Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
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#232As 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…
I try to get away from all that by hosting a site on gopher. Neocities would be another option, if you need the eye candy. I hate social media, going so far as to delete both my reddit and Mastodon accounts. But this is tempting. It gives me the feeling I used to get when listening to tunes and surfing last.fm
Can you elaborate on why you hate Mastodon as well? I signed up, never really got into it, but kind of always intended to.
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#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're forgetting a aspect: the Constitutional clause has been superseded by the 14th Amendment.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 W…
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.
That's not true, and I'm not even an originalist at all. Their point is that you stick to the letter of the law (the constitution) rather than trying to bend it around current social norms and sensibilities. I've never met an originalist who thinks black people are "3/5" of a person. They will cite the 13th and 14th amendments if you do. Clearly they would feel that the Constitution shouldn't be changed ever if they felt the way you say they feel. They think if you want to change the Constitution (or laws in general) that you should pass a new law or amend the Constitution to fit the situation, not sidestep it with a liberal judge who thinks it should be interpreted through the lens of society or even social justice.
Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
#234I never clicked on a sign up button so quickly.
I did the vintage pose and everything https://spacehey.com/kristopolous
I just reached out to Tom Anderson of Myspace, let's see if he comes around.
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#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
for it to be legitimate you need to use ColdFusion and then do a half assed port to .net.
My wife worked there for the transition. Her very first .net page was the MySpace homepage (which was demoed by Steve Ballmer at CES, iirc). Microsoft was very unhappy with the decision to retain the .cf extension on web pages even after the transition to .net. There were some crazy levels of scaling happening behind the scenes—they had database requirements beyond the capabilities of sql server and there was code on…
> to route to different sql clusters
That's called sharding and is pretty widely used nowadays. There is even readily available middleware that handles this for you, so no need to put it into the backend.
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#236Looking great so far. When MySpace was at its peak, I used to run one of those "style your profile" type websites that let you generate custom CSS and all those fun things. I should try and dig it out and see if it works on SpaceHey!
Just a small CSS tip for your header and footer menus -- instead of using ::before/::after pseudo elements in your anchors themselves, if you place the menu items in a list you can use them there so the vertical pipe isn't part of the links. For example the following HTML:
Link 1
Link 2
.menu {
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
text-align: center;
}
.menu li {
display: inline;
}
.menu li:not(:last-child)::after {
color: #000;
content: ' | ';
}
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#237How do you get followers? At sign up there is a flurry of views but no friend requests.
bots maybe.
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#238Good 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
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....
And the irregular? Care to share?
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#239I can't get past the Captcha on Firefox mobile
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#240I'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
click click click
Oh boy:
Naruto> 3 hours ago> Hey Mark, just letting you know my son, Boruto, is looking forward to interning at FB as a graphic designer! He really wants work at Spacehey in the future, so FB is kinda like a stepping stone for him. Thanks!
The tone people are already setting up on here really does feel more like the internet back when I first got online.