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So the same stack as 20+ years ago… good job, kid.
vDOM bros hate this one simple trick.
The web stack “they” don’t want you to know about
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#162I love this website's design. Look at those icons. They have color!
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Your work and art are an expression of you. How can you express something effectively that you deem unimportant?
Not to downplay my personal importance (=make an ostentatious display of humility, lol) I can work on art and projects to express the importance of other things in the world that aren't myself.
But it's still your expression, or put another way an expression of you.
Imagine art critics studying your art - they would be asking what was your history, context, what happened to you and what was going through your head that made you do this. It's always about you, even - maybe especially, considering that defeating one's ego is still noteworthy - if you don't want it to be about you.
Making art that's not about the artist is reserved to LLM... At least for now.
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#165Whatever you think of the site itself, this is prime HN content. A kid in high school starts a site that scales to 1,000,000 registered users while working on it during nights and weekends in college. If the founder is on here, what tech stack did you use and how long had you been programming before you built it?
It's pretty easy to check if a page is a PHP page: just add a .php suffix, it'll work most of the time depending on where the files are placed in the web directory (also technically depending on how the site implements URL rewrite rules):
* https://spacehey.com/index.php
* https://spacehey.com/browse.php
* https://spacehey.com/reset.php
Here you can see that /help/ is a directory on the filesystem, as it appends a slash at the end:
* https://spacehey.com/help -> goes to https://spacehey.com/help/
and can also be confirmed by trying index.php at that path:
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#166First, let me say I admire the successful effort to revive a piece of the 2000s web and wish the project the best. Having said that, I am of the right age to have been on MySpace, and exploring Spacehey gave me a better understanding of why I wasn't on MySpace. The focus of the site is on you and who you are. It's about presenting your many overlapping identities with style. Your interests and creative output are sec…
I wasn't really on MySpace either, but I think it's exactly where your complaint lies that drew such a huge demographic. When I think MySpace, I think teenagers who are still discovering their identity—not seasoned creators with a catalog of work to show off.
The masses were given a means to make a page that encapsulated their identity and connect it with others, during a time where it was suddenly made possible for everyone to express themselves, but still difficult to produce meaningful online content. I think Tumblr eventually ended up capturing a lot of that, but I also feel that there is a sense of pressure around having a space where the purpose is to publish content (even if just reblogging). It was really meaningful to a lot of people that they could have a simple space to express themselves through custom mouse cursors, cringey quotes, and autoplaying emo music.
Nowadays, this expression of identity for younger audiences seems to be driven by being a part of online communities with common interests, expressing oneself through content (now that it's so easy to make and share). But I think MySpace was there for people at the right time.
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> Discord is very much disliked, but the software is really good Discord as a text chat app is appalling . Whether on mobile, chromebook or desktop PC it's slow and janky to transition between channels. It is a measurably worse user experience than using IRC on a computer from twenty years ago with 1,000x less raw MIPS. Maybe it has some advantages for voice chat, but to me it's a lowest common denominator we use bec…
What makes it appalling? You can press ctrl + K to jump to any channel from anywhere. Feels snappy.
Hexchat feels snappy. Discord feels like an Electron app.
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#168Side note: the status page spacehey.com uses is one of those websites that'll do ANYTHING to get traffic.
On the blog [0]:
6 Best Self-Hosted Status Pages
0. Instatus
Instatus isn't self-hosted, but you can use it to get a quick & beautiful status page that's free forever.
Way to go to pollute search results when looking for a self-hosted status page.
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#169I'm curious what sort of infrastructure this runs on (hardware-wise), as I'd bet it's not some crazy highly-available complicated distributed system that is often glorified in tech companies and even on here.
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#170I'm curious what sort of infrastructure this runs on (hardware-wise), as I'd bet it's not some crazy highly-available complicated distributed system that is often glorified in tech companies and even on HN. If so, it would be a great example of "just go do it" rather than spending weeks and months over-engineering for scale that just isn't needed in 99% of cases.