Looks interesting. Definitely nailing the old myspace aesthetic. I’d be more curious about active users versus registered users. Social networks are usually defined by activity. Unfortunately registered users probably contains a lot of bots and spammers.
When I saw this I was like ooh noes not myspace all over again. I feel this style may actually be a hinderance for adopting more users. People really want something more reactive like Discord. Discord is very much disliked, but the software is really good and that is why most people won't abandon it. It is like comparing Slack to Teams. It will be a long time before anything catches immediately up to Slack or Discord in usability. Although I have a short list of things that would be QoL improvements that would make both them soooooo much better.
it has a notification history feature (at least on PC), it's just impossible to find and deleted messages disappear from it. Upper-right corner is your "inbox" which is totally worthless, and tabbed behind that is your notification history. I use it to find totally buried @Mods pings that I missed by thousands of messages and that's about it, it's not good.
You can usually get most of your notifications with Ctrl+[T or K] and then going through the menu here, but for reasons I've yet to figure out sometimes DMs don't show up here even when they have unread messages. I think there is some incorrect logic that kicks in when you have a high number of unread channels and it can't show as many "previous channels" as it wants to.
None of this is to defend Discord, I think their UI is bad and I've hated the way DMs function since day 1, and every single part of their app that relies on frecency (or doesn't but should) is abysmal (reaction autocomplete, the reaction pop-up menu, ctrl+T when you start typing something, the mention autocomplete behavior in any channel)
But once you learn the poorly-documented navigation flow of ctrl+T and then using @, #, or * to filter users/channels/servers it gets easier to use. My current biggest complaint is lack of a "previous channel within this server" hotkey, "previous channel that you visited globally" exists but you can't restrict it within one server, and it makes navigating some of my servers an absolute nightmare.
I get on Discord here and there to discuss Linux, programming and so on. It is definitely much different than IRC. The demographic seems to be 14 year olds trying to customize their WM.
> Discord is very much disliked, but the software is really good and that is why most people won't abandon it
I dislike every single one of discord's design decisions, I think the software is garbage, and it is riddled with security problems. Their customer service is a nightmare, a hacker got one of my friends accounts and even though he'd paid up for some kind of Discord extra service for more than 2 years in advance they wouldn't refund him or give him his account back. The API is bad too.
I use it purely because of the network effect. The people I want to communicate with use it, and the instant that changes if Discord isn't better then I'm out.
Yeah, it's really only tech folk who have fixed IP addresses, and they're usually too busy futzing around with servers to post shite on social sites ;)
Most IP connections are dynamic, and always were. Assuming that a person is synonymous with an IP connection makes no sense to me.
For most dynamic IP connections, as long as your router doesn’t go offline for days on end, you keep the same IP; so in practice your IP (almost) never changes.
I love Tor - but the exit node IP addresses do not have a good reputation, because they're a source of a lot of misbehaviour.
Sure, 'serious' attackers have botnets of home users' PCs and insecure IoT devices and whatnot. But because Tor exit nodes are easily used by even unsophisticated attackers, they quickly get flagged as sources of abuse.
While I disagree with the parent I personally think Discord is great. I've been on IRC for over 30 years and Discord is what I always imagined IRC 2.0 would be like.
I feel sort of ehh the same but also the opposite. I feel with both slack and discord that they are a little better than IRC. But that I so easily can see those features being implemented in IRC and I feel really sad history didn’t go in that direction. What if IRC had became the standard in the same way email did. IRC was so great and I miss it. I know ppl still use it, but I don’t even think I have a client anymore.
Learning to program as a kid in the 90s and getting that 28.8k modem with direct chat access to adults at Apple and later Sun/Java was amazing.
> 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 because of the people and despite the software.
I wonder if this is just everyone else using it on massive gamer PCs and me using it on mobile/chromebook, but .. no. It it is not snappy. The process of fetching all the new messages and rendering them takes up to a second.
I don't understand why people who insist on 60fps games are happy with a 1fps chat app, but I guess they don't have that experience.
And yet the one thing I can't do is automatically jump to the top of a question. One of my Discord servers loves doing FAQs as separate conversations, and once they get too many replies, I have to scroll endlessly (PgUp, etc) to see the first few comments. It's maddening.
Yes on very fast modern hardware, the textbox sometimes takes dozens of frames to display the character I typed, and it is inconsistent. The tech sucks.
Discord is good enough for most users and since it was one of the first to fully leverage WebRTC in-browser for voice chat (without requiring an account), the network effect is almost impossible to overcome at this point. This is incredibly unfortunate as closed chat ecosystems are an information black hole (except possibly when user generated content is licensed to the highest bidder for LLM training, what a gold mine!)
PS. It's worth mentioning in any Discord discussion with the (though the usual "could get banned" caveat applies): it is possible to export from Discord using https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter
Unfortunately, personal account automation like this is also in the reasons for "could get banned". Sigh.
I thought about building a scraper using something simplistic like Puppeteer to login to my account since the Discord browser experience is basically the same as the Discord app (which makes sense since its Electron). It would just issue a command to scroll arbitrarily up on a given channel/etc. until a certain earliest date was reached, and scrape all the data.
But.... again I'm sure that they have all sorts of mechanisms to detect unusual user behavior, so this might be JUST as vulnerable to detection as the aforementioned DiscordChatExporter.
Even leviathan walled gardens like Google let you export your data in a reasonable fashion (Google Takeout) - this is probably my biggest issue. On the other hand even if I could find an equivalent user-friendly platform, I'd never be able to convince all my contacts to migrate off Discord.
It's interesting to see how requesting your data[0] could take up to 30 days! I haven't yet clicked the button, but it would be interesting to see what's in the data dump.
The disparate experiences people have on the same piece of software is interesting. I'm on a Mac M1 (so definitely a higher end laptop) and have had zero issues with the Discord app. It sits comfortably on my second monitor and I use the Cmd-K shortcut to quickly snap to the correct channel/user when I want to chat. While I wouldn't call the app "blazingly fast", I don't really notice any meaningful latency.
I mean it's not like it's a low-level ASIO driver for pete's sake.
Memory usage is also reasonable. Continuous uptime is over 4 days now, and combined real mem shows it's using about ~400mb which honestly is about what I would have expected from an Electron app.
I think some of it comes down to user expectations. When I'm playing a game, we're primed to look/notice choppiness and dropped frames particularly since the graphics are constantly animated. When I'm using my DAW, I'm primed to hear latency between my interacting with a midi controller and the audio output. I don't have any such expectations when I'm using a glorified text messaging platform, so while there might indeed be some latency, it would have to be significant for me to notice.
That being said, I'm not a fan of the Android app - the UI/UX experience is rather rough.
> People really want something more reactive like Discord. Discord is very much disliked, but the software is really good and that is why most people won't abandon it.
This probably comes as a surprise to Discord users, but it really is a niche social network.
We're talking fractions of a percent of users compared to existing social networks.
People don't really want something like Discord - the downsides by far outweigh any upside of "a closed-off private network of people", biggest one being lack of visibility and consistency.
Lack of visibility is kind of the point for most of those users. Discord's a replacement for a group chat, not a facebook/myspace page. It was literally designed so those groups of 5-10 friends who play video games together online didn't need to faff about with a private forum, an IRC, and a voice chat server. The primary competition was Skype until Microsoft killed it. The last thing they want is randos butting in.
More angry than tired. To clarify: angry at Social Media rather than on it.
FB was great in about 2010, but is now ridiculous and basically unusable. My wife is addicted to IG, and spends multiple hours each day scrolling the feed. My social life revolves around WA groups. I tried moving people to Signal but got few takers.
I'm enjoying Mastodon at the moment.
I'm scared that if I install TikTok I'll get addicted. I've seen it happen to friends.
I would like to return to email, circa 2000, that was fun.
I have been addicted to ig. Still can be if I let myself. Reddit can also get me hard. Whatsapp groups I actually love because there's nothing to scroll. Just people lmk about an event and I can interact with them like a human, and I can go to the event. I get to know about things and I don't have to interact with meaningless content alongside it. I love it. What exactly is wrong with Whatsapp groups other than that it's owned by Meta? I also have some Telegram groups.
I uninstalled Reddit. The noise:signal ratio was getting too small to make the effort worth it. This one I don't actually blame on the social media company, though Reddit are busy enshittifying it. Though I don't really understand why or how HN promotes good conversations and Reddit promotes trolling and ignorance. It can't just be Dang ;)
zulip seems like a nice sweet spot between email and instant messaging apps, and maybe forums. ive havnt actually used it yet but its on my self hosting todo list
Almost 40 as well, also tired of social media but I do miss social networks. This seems to hew more closely to the social network concept than being a media outlet which is lovely to see coming back.
We may be choosier than most about social media, but here we are typing our thoughts into a web page expecting nothing in return except the possibility of hearing other peoples' thoughts.
We all know people who are truly tired of social media, we're not going to hear from them here.
I'm 26 and I'm tired of social media. I was addicted to insta for a bit and I've teared myself away. Now when I go back, I can still feel the addictive quality but for the most part I look at people's posts and wonder how they aren't embarassed. Like why do I care to see this photo of you? Did you really just set your camera up in this complicated way to take a photo in your room? Isn't that sad? Do people actually get anything from these reels that are so vapid? The fact that one of my favourite songs is being used as background music to the most inane "comedy" makes me angry because it's ruining my experience of the art itself! All these things go through my head. I couldn't take myself seriously posting any more unless it was strictly for business.
Definitely am. I’m 35. Thankfully I found a great place to be in the blogging world. I write posts, I read posts from others, we connect via email. It’s great.
I don't know how to interpret statements like this. In my mind there has to be a clear separation between problems individual platforms have (ie an algorithmic feed where you may or may not see what your friends actually post despite explicitly following them) and... the rest of the discussion. "Social media" (a very broad term) as a medium people dislike, well, that's individual. It means no matter how a platform does some people will always be against it. I don't understand that. I think the more important discussions to have are how we can improve specific sites
I stay logged in almost all the time. I wanted some place where I felt like I could blog freely, and one that _felt_ like a blog instead of some ad-ridden mess. It was partially the customisation aspect that drew me in at the beginning, having that much control over my profile (even if it was just basic HTML and CSS with some JS) reminded me of what I loved about being online. I have a personal website and don't really pay much heed to the 'social' aspect of SpaceHey but having a little corner where I can just go and blog/post bulletins about things I'm thinking about, especially because it has a straightforward interface, feels really nice. The lack of ads and algorithms and general 'social media' paradigms of the modern age do a lot to make sure I keep going back.
Absolutely, but not even Facebook enforced MFA... Though they do offer it. I just can't imagine the absolute nightmare it must be to get Facebook, Google or Microsoft to reset your MFA if you lose it. You might as well create a new account.
We did a MFA reset for a remote coworker a few weeks ago, the about of validation and procedures we had to go through was insane, but also the only way to ensure that this is a correct reset.
MFA is really really important, but there's no good solutions for it yet.
It's funny, normally I would say "MFA? for this??" But actually I used to curate a MySpace for punk shows/bands in the city I lived in. I found every local band's page and added them as friends. Reposted flyers for upcoming shows. Posted pictures from shows. Had a blog. And one day a girl I broke up with found my password (or reset it, not sure), logged in, and deleted everything. Years of work down the tubes. So even for a MySpace clone, I'd say MFA is pretty handy, in those few cases that you need it.
(Does every comment need a "report comment" hyperlink? I like how HN does it, timestamps are permalinks, permalinked page has additional options to flag and favorite.)
(edit: timestamps are permalinks, at least)
(Edit edit omg people customize their profile markup like it's 2006 again)
I did a quick check on the Online Users [0] via the Browse functionality and found there is a filter for online users. Currently it's 9:19 AM in the Netherlands. And there is about 7 pages filled with Online users. 45 users per page. About 7 pages filled with users [1].
So that's around 315 Online users in Europe during the day. My guess is that during US daytime numbers will be higher. Maybe someone in the US can do a check in a few hours? :)
It's incredible how this type of revival from the past gained such meaningful traction, but, in a way, I fully understand it. The online world has become so confusing that many desire a simple one. The same feeling drove me to adopt Threads over Twitter/X—even if I still use them both.
> The confusion, especially on X, is caused by focusing on what the loudest dumbest users want vs all else.
I'm not on X, so I don't know, but IME on every other place on the internet since forever is that the loudest, dumbest users ARE the advertisers.
An environment that monetarily rewards users pushing their message into other peoples faces performs an environmental selection to make the advertisers the loudest and dumbest users.
> The confusion, especially on X, is caused by focusing on what advertisers want vs what users want
Is it? Last time I heard about it advertisers were going away because Musk is focusing on what loudest users want (being able to speak loudly) and not what advertisers want (moderation)
No, Twitter was never especially advertiser focused, although it did do a bit of "brand" stuff. The destruction of Twitter was because as a a "free speech platform" it naturally picked up the most aggressive, nastiest, confrontational politics. It then algorithmically shoved this in front of the people most likely to make retaliatory posts. It is dying because it now focuses on what the owner wants, which is a set of increasingly fringe right wing lunatics and some guy called "catturd2".
Hence getting banned in Brazil. I guarantee that is not an outcome any advertiser wanted.
I still use X and it's still very good. It's tough rn (as it always was) 6 months before the big US election but it'll go back to normal. I've been on twitter since 2011 and it's been the same pattern all these years.
The secret, always is - follow new people in small increments and generously unfollow at the slightest annoyance. There are still lots of interesting people to find!
You'll discover there's people on both sides of political issues who can make their points and not be annoying about it but these are maybe 1-3% of political people. You can also completely ignore politics by being judicious with your unfollows.
It's happened time and time again already. Firefox was the light version of Mozilla. Then that got bloated. Chrome was the light version of Firefox. Now that's bloated. Very few things resist bloat over time. This website is an example. People sometimes ask for new features, but the only change I can think of is pagination for long comment threads, which was driven by necessity.
Can't wait for IRC to become popular again. I'll still be there, waiting.
The problem is that all mainstream social media has degenerated into entertainment. Staying up to date about the lives of people you know irl is seemingly no longer their intended purpose.
But people's need to connect in this way — just updates from those who they chose to follow, displayed chronologically, and no other content whatsoever — has not gone anywhere. That's why I'm also working on my own project that implements this type of social network with ActivityPub support: https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen
It's beta quality for now and I'm not promoting it much yet, but I hope to bring it to 1.0 by the end of this year.
Yes I should. A proper website that explains what it is and contains docs about the client API (that also doesn't exist yet) is something I plan to have for 1.0.
Scrolling through these profiles in the age of text generating AI, gives me this uncanny feeling, that what I am reading is just random gibberish spat out by a LLM.
I feel like anything I'd post on this platform, would get lost in giant noise of generated feces.
Maybe it's just, the unknown world of "artsy" people is what is really so off-putting. Maybe I am just getting old and don't understand this joy of childish expression anymore. But the other, most popular platforms, seem to have more appeal for followong reasons:
- Facebook works around ads (pages) & groups about my (technical) interests, there isn't really a reason for AI spam. If any would appearx it is easy to make them disappear. You get some ads here & there, but content generating bots are often named bots & post content we've agreed to.
- Discord gives you high walled gardens for every topic you are interested in. So, one really needs to get out of their way to get content they are not interested in right now. Plus, everything feels like a DM, even the public chats are all just quick chats.
- X is literally a politics platform, so I am not expecting AI content from verified account of a diplomat, or media person.
>"FB and there isn't really a reason for AI spam."
Heh good joke. Facebook is full of spam bots, phishing etc.
Using following template, hack legitimate account, buy ADs for your phishing campaign with stolen CCs, phish people, rinse and repeat.
And quantity of phishing/spam is so huge, Meta is basically unable to fight this.
You're right about it existing, but FB could definitely fight it, removing 90% or more. But sadly it generatesa LOT of extra revenue for them (stolen account with stolen CC = thousands spent on ads) so they have monetary incentive to turn a blind eye and let people get scammed.
I was very stressed last year and had what felt like a dissociative episode: Knowing what was becoming possible with LLMs, I one day just couldn't shake the feeling of unreality while reading any online spaces, including hacker news. I felt like maybe 70% of comments I was reading might not be real. Everything, including HN, just seemed so predictable or unsurprising
It was an altered state that felt like the leading edge of... something
> Everything […] just seemed so predictable or unsurprising
That are people for you. Most of the time, we are uninteresting, predictable, and unoriginal. Especially when you got used to some subset, like HN, where there is a bit if self reinforcement, through the voting system.
As long as this site doesn't implement the ActivityPub protocol, I don't see any reason for me to move to this site. I don't have time to maintain another account, and I want to keep in touch with people from Mastodon and Threads.
This feels like a very 2010s comment, when it was assumed that one has to be on every single social network app, copy/pasting the same 'content' into each of them, in order to be visible online. All that did was turn the net into a giant monoculture of hot takes and too-short posts. Only influencers and shovel-sellers need that.
I think it's more about the network effect: the point of social networks is to talk with your friends, so you want to be on a network your friends are on.
That's what I have been trying to do with the B3ta site[0]. It is a UK humour site forum that was founded in the very early 2000s.
I have been looking after it's backend for about five or so years, trying to modernise what I can and keep it stable and maintainable.
I have learnt a lot of respect for people who create a site like Spacehey, it quickly spirals in to a job in itself.
Whatever 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?
We have several legacy products still running on CF, all running rock solid, but also all ported to Lucee these days. I still like CF but I'm an old fogey that started with it in the late 90's Allaire days. I often wonder if it had been open source from its inception if it would have grown faster than PHP. It really was a 'swiss army knife' of web development. It's still around here and there but mostly in larger corps that don't blink at Adobe's crazy licensing fees. Most everyone else in the communities I talk to has jumped to Lucee.
Peep this, I stumbled on it randomly last week and also was surprised that it still seems to be around and kicking. It’s basically a Rails for cold fusion lol.
Edit: I said this because he's using PHP, MySQL, and I assumed Apache. But now I see in another comment that he's using ColdFusion, and indeed the server returns an X-Powered-By ColdFusion header. So now I'm confused. PHP on ColdFusion? Or maybe he’s just having the server return a bogus ColdFusion header as a nod to MySpace?
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):
I love that it is snappy. I didn't read the article but I spent time examining the browser network calls, not much css and js downloads. I truly love the feel of it.
Not sure I care about another SM platform but I was very happy to see a snappy site on a Monday morning. A good reminder to put care in my work this week.
During the weekend, I had to fight the urge not to implement a tiny client for interacting with my bank. A company making loads of profit but can't fix their online banking platform. Every page takes not less than a minute to open. No form of caching user details, API calls are made and take same response time not matter how many times you navigate to a screen.
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Promotes a smaller, more tightly knit community.
One person's X is another's Y.
I avoided it because when when a ding occurred there is no indication which channel had just donged, just left me confused as to what was happening
You can usually get most of your notifications with Ctrl+[T or K] and then going through the menu here, but for reasons I've yet to figure out sometimes DMs don't show up here even when they have unread messages. I think there is some incorrect logic that kicks in when you have a high number of unread channels and it can't show as many "previous channels" as it wants to.
None of this is to defend Discord, I think their UI is bad and I've hated the way DMs function since day 1, and every single part of their app that relies on frecency (or doesn't but should) is abysmal (reaction autocomplete, the reaction pop-up menu, ctrl+T when you start typing something, the mention autocomplete behavior in any channel)
But once you learn the poorly-documented navigation flow of ctrl+T and then using @, #, or * to filter users/channels/servers it gets easier to use. My current biggest complaint is lack of a "previous channel within this server" hotkey, "previous channel that you visited globally" exists but you can't restrict it within one server, and it makes navigating some of my servers an absolute nightmare.
I dislike every single one of discord's design decisions, I think the software is garbage, and it is riddled with security problems. Their customer service is a nightmare, a hacker got one of my friends accounts and even though he'd paid up for some kind of Discord extra service for more than 2 years in advance they wouldn't refund him or give him his account back. The API is bad too.
I use it purely because of the network effect. The people I want to communicate with use it, and the instant that changes if Discord isn't better then I'm out.
Having customer service would be a step up.
>>We banned your account for illegal activity.
>But I just signed up and tried logging in?
>>After review we have banned your IP forever for illegal activity.
Most IP connections are dynamic, and always were. Assuming that a person is synonymous with an IP connection makes no sense to me.
Sure, 'serious' attackers have botnets of home users' PCs and insecure IoT devices and whatnot. But because Tor exit nodes are easily used by even unsophisticated attackers, they quickly get flagged as sources of abuse.
Learning to program as a kid in the 90s and getting that 28.8k modem with direct chat access to adults at Apple and later Sun/Java was amazing.
Citation needed :) This feels like you are parroting either your own preference or something you have heard other people state as fact.
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 because of the people and despite the software.
You can press ctrl + K to jump to any channel from anywhere. Feels snappy.
I wonder if this is just everyone else using it on massive gamer PCs and me using it on mobile/chromebook, but .. no. It it is not snappy. The process of fetching all the new messages and rendering them takes up to a second.
I don't understand why people who insist on 60fps games are happy with a 1fps chat app, but I guess they don't have that experience.
Do you even have slow performance when switching between two channels that are "loaded"?
Discord is good enough for most users and since it was one of the first to fully leverage WebRTC in-browser for voice chat (without requiring an account), the network effect is almost impossible to overcome at this point. This is incredibly unfortunate as closed chat ecosystems are an information black hole (except possibly when user generated content is licensed to the highest bidder for LLM training, what a gold mine!)
PS. It's worth mentioning in any Discord discussion with the (though the usual "could get banned" caveat applies): it is possible to export from Discord using https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter
I thought about building a scraper using something simplistic like Puppeteer to login to my account since the Discord browser experience is basically the same as the Discord app (which makes sense since its Electron). It would just issue a command to scroll arbitrarily up on a given channel/etc. until a certain earliest date was reached, and scrape all the data.
But.... again I'm sure that they have all sorts of mechanisms to detect unusual user behavior, so this might be JUST as vulnerable to detection as the aforementioned DiscordChatExporter.
Even leviathan walled gardens like Google let you export your data in a reasonable fashion (Google Takeout) - this is probably my biggest issue. On the other hand even if I could find an equivalent user-friendly platform, I'd never be able to convince all my contacts to migrate off Discord.
[0] https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004027692-R...
I mean it's not like it's a low-level ASIO driver for pete's sake.
Memory usage is also reasonable. Continuous uptime is over 4 days now, and combined real mem shows it's using about ~400mb which honestly is about what I would have expected from an Electron app.
I think some of it comes down to user expectations. When I'm playing a game, we're primed to look/notice choppiness and dropped frames particularly since the graphics are constantly animated. When I'm using my DAW, I'm primed to hear latency between my interacting with a midi controller and the audio output. I don't have any such expectations when I'm using a glorified text messaging platform, so while there might indeed be some latency, it would have to be significant for me to notice.
That being said, I'm not a fan of the Android app - the UI/UX experience is rather rough.
This probably comes as a surprise to Discord users, but it really is a niche social network.
We're talking fractions of a percent of users compared to existing social networks.
People don't really want something like Discord - the downsides by far outweigh any upside of "a closed-off private network of people", biggest one being lack of visibility and consistency.
FB was great in about 2010, but is now ridiculous and basically unusable. My wife is addicted to IG, and spends multiple hours each day scrolling the feed. My social life revolves around WA groups. I tried moving people to Signal but got few takers.
I'm enjoying Mastodon at the moment.
I'm scared that if I install TikTok I'll get addicted. I've seen it happen to friends.
I would like to return to email, circa 2000, that was fun.
We all know people who are truly tired of social media, we're not going to hear from them here.
Almost everything should have MFA, but it's not a solved problem. The overhead is to high and if you force it upon users you'll lose many of them.
Not having MFA opens it up to potential data breaches causing havoc.
We did a MFA reset for a remote coworker a few weeks ago, the about of validation and procedures we had to go through was insane, but also the only way to ensure that this is a correct reset.
MFA is really really important, but there's no good solutions for it yet.
(Does every comment need a "report comment" hyperlink? I like how HN does it, timestamps are permalinks, permalinked page has additional options to flag and favorite.)
(edit: timestamps are permalinks, at least)
(Edit edit omg people customize their profile markup like it's 2006 again)
In essence, how big is the community versus how many people have stepped in the front door once.
So that's around 315 Online users in Europe during the day. My guess is that during US daytime numbers will be higher. Maybe someone in the US can do a check in a few hours? :)
[0] https://spacehey.com/browse?view=online [1] https://spacehey.com/browse?page=7&view=online
I'm not on X, so I don't know, but IME on every other place on the internet since forever is that the loudest, dumbest users ARE the advertisers.
An environment that monetarily rewards users pushing their message into other peoples faces performs an environmental selection to make the advertisers the loudest and dumbest users.
Is it? Last time I heard about it advertisers were going away because Musk is focusing on what loudest users want (being able to speak loudly) and not what advertisers want (moderation)
Hence getting banned in Brazil. I guarantee that is not an outcome any advertiser wanted.
The secret, always is - follow new people in small increments and generously unfollow at the slightest annoyance. There are still lots of interesting people to find!
You'll discover there's people on both sides of political issues who can make their points and not be annoying about it but these are maybe 1-3% of political people. You can also completely ignore politics by being judicious with your unfollows.
Can't wait for IRC to become popular again. I'll still be there, waiting.
But people's need to connect in this way — just updates from those who they chose to follow, displayed chronologically, and no other content whatsoever — has not gone anywhere. That's why I'm also working on my own project that implements this type of social network with ActivityPub support: https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen
It's beta quality for now and I'm not promoting it much yet, but I hope to bring it to 1.0 by the end of this year.
In the meantime, here it is live on my server: https://friends.grishka.me/
https://spacehey.com/support
I feel like anything I'd post on this platform, would get lost in giant noise of generated feces.
Maybe it's just, the unknown world of "artsy" people is what is really so off-putting. Maybe I am just getting old and don't understand this joy of childish expression anymore. But the other, most popular platforms, seem to have more appeal for followong reasons: - Facebook works around ads (pages) & groups about my (technical) interests, there isn't really a reason for AI spam. If any would appearx it is easy to make them disappear. You get some ads here & there, but content generating bots are often named bots & post content we've agreed to. - Discord gives you high walled gardens for every topic you are interested in. So, one really needs to get out of their way to get content they are not interested in right now. Plus, everything feels like a DM, even the public chats are all just quick chats. - X is literally a politics platform, so I am not expecting AI content from verified account of a diplomat, or media person.
Heh good joke. Facebook is full of spam bots, phishing etc. Using following template, hack legitimate account, buy ADs for your phishing campaign with stolen CCs, phish people, rinse and repeat.
And quantity of phishing/spam is so huge, Meta is basically unable to fight this.
It was an altered state that felt like the leading edge of... something
That are people for you. Most of the time, we are uninteresting, predictable, and unoriginal. Especially when you got used to some subset, like HN, where there is a bit if self reinforcement, through the voting system.
[0]: https://b3ta.com/
Thank you for your service :)
https://www.coldbox.org/
Lucee: A light-weight dynamic CFML scripting language for the JVM - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41409434 - Aug 2024 (37 comments)
https://x.com/AnTheMaker/status/1530851239310802947
Edit: I said this because he's using PHP, MySQL, and I assumed Apache. But now I see in another comment that he's using ColdFusion, and indeed the server returns an X-Powered-By ColdFusion header. So now I'm confused. PHP on ColdFusion? Or maybe he’s just having the server return a bogus ColdFusion header as a nod to MySpace?
* 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:
* https://spacehey.com/help/index.php
Not sure I care about another SM platform but I was very happy to see a snappy site on a Monday morning. A good reminder to put care in my work this week.
During the weekend, I had to fight the urge not to implement a tiny client for interacting with my bank. A company making loads of profit but can't fix their online banking platform. Every page takes not less than a minute to open. No form of caching user details, API calls are made and take same response time not matter how many times you navigate to a screen.