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Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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Post by tgtweak »

userbinator wrote: post #192
mrzool wrote: post #122

I'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

That's what 10 years of hardware improvements actually looks like without 10 corresponding years of software degradation.

Underrated comment.

Strangely the opposite is true for the linux kernel - seems to run better and better on old hardware every year.

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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Post by jasonjayr »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #215
hestefisk wrote: post #165

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Aah yes, mod_perl. That brings back memories.

If you had enough rack space, mod_perl+Apache2 could scale to anything you needed. Hundreds of Gbps, hundreds of thousands of RPS. Inefficient, sure, but seriously flexible+performant and really easy to deploy. I miss the old stacks, as Nginx and the other httpds really suck in comparison (feature-wise) and Java is still such a huge PITA. I'd honestly rather use modern PHP than today's Java webapps.

Some of us still run mod_perl stacks .... :)

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Post by easton »

PicassoCTs wrote: post #174
Aldipower wrote: post #145

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These words are so true. I feel the same way. Nothing to add.

This. I miss that refugee camp of misfits, outcast from society, before that which haunted us came back with a vengeance. There should be a non-cooperate sector of the web. Where all is GPL and this taint on the world could be removed.

Like the indieweb? I think there’s a webring that takes you through it.

https://indieweb.org/

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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Post by quickthrower2 »

whbrown wrote: post #188
konjin wrote: post #175

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Server side rendered content is better in nearly all cases. From some reason people think that offloading html/css rendering to users is somehow faster. It really isn't. My home site is faster to access half way across the world served from a raspberry pi than twitter is.

Client side rendered won't be faster all things being equal since they'll have to make at least an extra round trip request after the initial (html/js/css) requests for data from the API, but it should definitely be much cheaper since you can lean on the client's compute rather than solely your own servers. Given the popularity of facebook/reddit/twitter/gmail etc. it seems users think client-side rendering is fast e…

Compute? Rendering JSON and HTML via a template I imagine are roughly equivalent.

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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Post by bquest2 »

CharlesW wrote: post #33
makeworld wrote: post #31

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?

Just curious: Why is this post with kind words and a seemingly-helpful tip being downvoted? Is this bad advice for some reason?

HN is full of bad actors who don't want their jobs made harder

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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Post by rkuykendall-com »

lowcodetv wrote: post #147
adrr wrote: post #139

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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.

Pownce? "Twitter on steroids" [0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pownce

I remember when Kevin Rose of Digg made a lot of noise to launch this and then it very, very quickly died.

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Post by idclip »

lovegoblin wrote: post #112
idclip wrote: post #74

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Not an SJW here, actually a political minority here ... i see a moderate amount of moderation and banning pf groups where i hang. Sure its not china but we are not using that asa standard .. and mate thats a ton of shaming in your tone .. please consider showing some compassion. I fail to see how his comment provoked yours ..

> SJW Hah people still use this term unironically?

Theres a bit of lag In non english speaking spheres =}

Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

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Post by DaiPlusPlus »

dhosek wrote: post #219
D_B_Koopa wrote: post #72

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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…

> At the same time, he was also requiring things like pixel-for-pixel identical output for existing pages/features through all of this.

Break middle-school students' copypasta CSS rules for animated GIF backgrounds at your peril.

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