Agree! I started SpaceHey a few years ago as a MySpace revival and it organically grew to 1M+ users. There's really a place for nostalgic social media (not only regarding the design, but also the feature set and vibe in general)
> When I started out, you could just copy HTML files up to your server and you had a website. It was magical! And PHP made it even better; you could just throw in a little snippet of server-side code and you had a dynamic page.
Well, you can still very much do this. Sure, it's not bleeding edge, but large chunks of the web (even newer sites) still do it this way and rely on PHP or sinilar server side languages.
Totally agree! I love mmm.page and I do think the internet needs more spaces for people to create their own pages and express their creativity. I actually recreated MySpace a while back[0] and and I'm seeing that a lot more people think this way!
I run both of those things for a while now, and I think it's easier than many expect. And once it's set up correctly, both Email and DNS Servers do not require much maintenance and scale pretty well.
This website feels outdated, if the idea is to use the system fonts you might as well be using system-ui (although that can come with its own set of can of worms if you care about i18n). Specially because it's using -apple-system which is literally the same thing as system-ui nowadays (Apple was the one to propose and push for system-ui).
The font stacks themselves seem solid though. Specially for serif and mono where of course system doesn't cut and ui-monospace is only supported on Apple devices (similar to system-ui but for monospace).
Nice project!
However, when trying to search for my site (https://spacehey.com), it shows multiple tags, with most of them being false (Cloudflare, UTM Tracking, WEBP Images). I used Cloudflare at one point in the past, but don't anymore. Additionally, there has never been UTM tracking or anything like that nor WEBP images...
Where do you get such data from?
Since spacehey includes user-submitted content, it's possible that:
* Someone uploaded a WEBP image to the site.
* Someone pasted a link with a utm_* param.
* The page was crawled when cloudflare was used.
Will look into it and see if I can find the pages that generated the tags. Search results are generally tagged by domain name (necessary since not all pages can be crawled, and even if the page the user connects to doesn't have, for example google trackers, a user would likely want to know if the site is using trackers elsewhere).
Also love the spacehey project, really captures the feel of Myspace!
EDIT: I found some of the pages with links that include UTM tracking params. Let me know if you want me to send you the pages with those links, can send them through email (my email is on the contact page of the site).
https://github.com/AnTheMaker/GoodBots