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Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g64152v71o
17•1659447091•6h ago

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iansmith_hn•44m ago
Talk about rose-colored glasses and "the good ol' days". All I can remember are the animated gifs flash and spinning around on people's pages...
iinnPP•33m ago
That's what I miss. Some level of personality is desperately missing from modern alternatives.
classified•32m ago
True, but it was all quite harmless. Today's perfectly designed web sites are made by folks who know exactly how to make you addicted to the algorithmic feed and whatnot.
SpaceL10n•18m ago
Pages with personality like that are not just examples of how bad UX can be, they are examples of how UX can be used as an artistic form of self-expression.
drooopy•18m ago
I miss that quite a lot. For the past 20 years the Web has been a sterile wasteland full of minimalist white and grays and 0 personality.
coolgoose•36m ago
Ah, MySpace, I think I made thousands of custom MySpace themes, hacking their complete lack of html escaping to change the layout. I wonder if they'd stil allow that same level of jankiness
bamboozled•19m ago
I can see large amounts of exploits and scams being a thing these days.
doublerabbit•31m ago
As a MySpace fan, I don't want it back at all. Can we stop this rehashing of memories and come up with something new?

Great for its time, but with the way the internet is, will just turn in to another toxic echo chamber.

Next up: Toy Story 7, Andy finds a Sinclair ZX Spectrum in the attic and its missing its 16kb expansion module called Chippy.

thisislife2•23m ago
It's not for you or me - it's for the AI companies so that they can have "human" content (good luck with that).
fragmede•11m ago
Sure. Get mega rich and buy it so you can do whatever you want with it, including shutting it down. Hell, make a GoFundMe for it, see what happens.
kilroy123•16m ago
My first paid software gig was making a famous person's MySpace page. I got my first software job because of this. So I have a real soft spot for MySpace.

I made a fun thing this week for nostalgia:

https://allthedamn.tools/myspace-profile-generator/

pram•12m ago
Sure to be as successful as the Digg resurrection lol

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Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g64152v71o
17•1659447091•6h ago•12 comments

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