You know what? Good for Friendster. It can't be worse than what we have now. But, also, good luck with that. Facebook may be terrible (it is definitely terrible), but it's where everybody's friends are. I dunno how you reproduce that network effect today, but maybe they do.
I remember when the original Friendster came out, everyone I knew signed up, only to realize...wait, what can we actually do with it other than look at our social graph?
If Friendster had figured out a stickier use case, they could have preempted MySpace and Facebook before they ever got going.
I went home from a bar in 2003 knowing only the first name of a wonderful girl I chatted with that night, and thanks to Friendster I was able to locate her in a city of over 8MM people and find a way to contact her. We are married with a family now.
They seriously did a relaunch without being compatible with most of the planet? iOS only, who does that in 2026, get competent Devs friendster because you'll die again :/
Can't believe they'll waste an opportunity like this with non-sense, it genuinely make me mad.
It's not even a good iOS app, to be honest. I can vibe-code this in an hour and get a more visually-pleasing app with Android support, too. They only have a good domain with plenty of nostalgia, and that's it! If this took them months, then it's dead on arrival, truly!
A nice and familiar domain with tons of nostalgia, but the app isn't even an MVP! You can vibe code something way richer in less than a day, to be honest! If this took you months, then, wow!
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If Friendster had figured out a stickier use case, they could have preempted MySpace and Facebook before they ever got going.
Can't believe they'll waste an opportunity like this with non-sense, it genuinely make me mad.