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I recreated MySpace from 2007 (and it's fully functional)

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u/emcee_gee avatar

Sorry, but saying it's fully functional means it's not a true replica of 2007 MySpace. That site broke basically every day.

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u/googledeeznutz avatar

Basically the bugs were features. HTML on profiles was a complete accident/error in the coding. However, what MySpace was always tripping up on in 2007 was bandwidth more so than coding issues.

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Can users inject malicious Javascript into their pages like the good old days of MySpace lol

I hope not :P

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doesn't look like you can ;) nice job

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😂🤣

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u/bill_on_sax avatar

Are these all real users?!

Yes, all real users! I only created my own account and the spacehey account. No bots whatsoever

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Nice job. Looks like a lot of people enjoying reliving the nostalgia. It's like a wholesome version of Facebook

u/dags_co avatar

Pretty sad that Tom wasn't there

u/ThicChewy avatar

Maybe invite Tom to join ? or make a profile for him? or change your profile pic to a poorly photoshopped version of his.

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yes! we are real!! i love spacehey

Just found it last night. New user. Add me! https://spacehey.com/thetaburn

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Haha looks super cool good job. Can you share some front and backend info? Like what did you use to create the whole website? Thanks

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It’s a static site written purely in PHP Html and css https://twitter.com/AnTheMaker/status/1333808113015787526?s=20

I don't think you're using the term "static" properly

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Tom we missed you and censorship free days, buddy

Of all the things you could use your genius on, you go ahead and do this‽ You madman.

i mean what's wrong with this? he had an idea and he made it happen'd

He was being sarcastic.

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If you add band profile functionality, it could seriously become a BIG thing. 😳

What is band profile functionality?

I googled it because I was curious as well and wikipedia says either:

BAND is a mobile community application that facilitates group communication. Created by Naver Corporation, the service is available on iOS, Android, and desktop.

or

A radio communications signal must occupy a range of frequencies carrying most of its energy, called its bandwidth. A frequency band may represent one communication channel or be subdivided into many. Allocation of radio frequency ranges to different uses is a major function of radio spectrum allocation.

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u/edenshizzle avatar

AGREEEEEEEED, music players, even if he doesnt have licensing he can get small musicians to upload and invite their fans to the platform too (i know i said this somewhere already hahah)

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💯💯💯

You can embed soundcloud players

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Hey, they were talking about this on the radio where I live like 2 days ago.

Whaaat?? That's amazing!!

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This is awesome, great job. I started poking around and noticed the blog post by "Mark Zuckerberg" asking to take it down. This place is going to be a comedy gold mine, I can already tell.

Reddit tested. Tom approved?

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if i sign in will you steal my data?

Nope

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Stfu

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I actually had this idea too, glad you went through with it

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wait are there two syllables in idea or three? I have been trying to count for the past 6 minutes and gave myself a headache

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i-dea?

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It's 3 syllables. Eye-dee-ah.

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wait this post is 2 years old lmfao

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Same as well, just wasn't sure it would take off honestly.

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awesome

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please tell me you are still working on it. i found out about it last night on tiktok and im so happy. will you make it easy for us to add cool layouts? my "coding" days are long gone. lol

Yes, I'm actively working on it! If you know CSS and HTML you can use it to customize your profile. Hoewever, I'm also working on some no-code tools to design your profile! Stay tuned :)

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Will you be adding messaging functionality soon?

Yes! Currently working on it :)

Definitely one thing holding it back. Think once that's added it will for sure take off more. I just joined today.

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definitely cant wait for all the features to be added but i have faith in this one, its active af so far which is GREAT. all my friends and I have been using it all day and I hope it stays that way! I have a really great idea for you for the future or even now if you can; you should add a music player upload (but somehow not allow people to add copyrighted music/have it removed automatically til you get proper licensing) so that NEW artists will be attracted to join the site and uploaded their music and have their fans/followers join as well.....and then we'd also have a way to add profile music ;) just a thought!!!

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Thank you so much for this! I’ve had so much fun these past few days. Hope it’ll be around for many more!

I’m spacehey.com/savesanotherday if anyone wants to add me!

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I meant to post this as a main comment my bad:

definitely cant wait for all the features to be added but i have faith in this one, its active af so far which is GREAT. all my friends and I have been using it all day and I hope it stays that way! I have a really great idea for you for the future or even now if you can; you should add a music player upload (but somehow not allow people to add copyrighted music/have it removed automatically til you get proper licensing) so that NEW artists will be attracted to join the site and uploaded their music and have their fans/followers join as well.....and then we'd also have a way to add profile music ;) just a thought!!!

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So whenever i click on "pics" right below my picture it says it's no available. Is this something you guys are working on?

Yes!

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Just came here to say, even with it's tweaks n stuff, this gave me a huge rush of nostalgia and serotonin. I immediately made a profile when a friend told me about it and managed to find a layout I once used from the good old days lmao. I also found and got my old iPod working the same week haha. My inner scene kid is screaming. Thank you for this.

u/KillaKevKev avatar

So how do i buy stonks in your company Tibush Labs?!?!

Regardless I’m impressed. Add me - Lilith Strange

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As a teen in the late 2000s where Myspace was my only escape from reality and where I spent literally all day for years using it, Spacehey is amazing! Thank you so much for creating this.

Sorry to bring up this old thread, but is your site an actual social media site? Do people use it?

Yeah! 800k users rn!

Wow that’s so cool. I’ve been looking for someone to code a similar idea for my little company. We want to create a social space for parkour that looks a little retro. Is it a difficult project?

For some reason I'm up in the middle of the night trying to use Wayback Machine to find my old Myspace page... No dice but just looking at the layouts on your site was exactly what I needed somehow. Thanks man.

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Good Work. How much time did it take though?

Around 10 days from idea to launch (all built in public on twitter)

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u/PyRoDrAkE69 avatar

OP. Is it possible to share the source code? Or do you want to keep it private? I would love to host this for my South African Friends.

Not open source currently. However, I'd love to improve SpaceHey for South Africans! In fact, there are already quite a few users from over there! Let me know what I can do

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I winced when I read the title. (Fully functional?!) It hurts me that you would do this to yourself. (Whoever you are.)

u/Prod_Is_For_Testing avatar

I think that just means that everything works. It really is a shame that people picked “functional programming” as the name of a paradigm when functional is already such a well known word for something that works

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Well it's the most intuitive name for the paradigm. Any coder immediately knows what it means without anyone explaining it to them. Any one who doesn't code doesn't care what paradigm you used to make your MySpace clone.

I think the title gives plenty of context for us to infer what the op meant anyway. u/afellowhumanperson is probably spending a ton of time studying programming if they thought the op meant he used functional programming versus just meaning that the site worked.

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I don’t even think it’s intuitive. To me, functional only means that it has functions. Guess what? Procedural code and OOP code also have functions. So what does the name really even tell you?

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I guess if you don't find it intuitive then you don't find it intuitive.

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I was just making a joke.

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It also has echo chamber censorship, just like Twitter.

Nice.

u/calvindaniels avatar

Is it all legal? Will you get in trouble?

WTF you're 18? haha. bingus bless you

Nice work! Made an account. Super fun/cool. You gonna keep it up? Or did you just make it for fun?

Are you going to be the new Tom?

You killed this my dude. I'm enjoying it so much, I haven't scratched a nostalgia itch this hard in a long time. Thanks!

u/meowmeow314 avatar

Can you put it in app form? This is cool

Thank you so much. I love it. Really feels like the 2000's again.

I'm glad you like it! :)

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I genuinely want to know, what is stopping you from advertising this to literally everyone?? Like really making it big and saying fuck Instagram and facebook Myspace is back? I would even call it YourSpace. Lol

I have just joined this delightful site. Will be devoting some time to it