MySpace - the worst made website ever?

Hamish

Hamish

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Words cannot express how much I hate MySpace, its not just that it's full of emos and weirdos its just the overall design and everything! I need to vent my frustration for the following reasons...

1) Its all tables! they're so 1998!
2) Why let users put their own CSS/HTML in, not only is it bad practice but it makes 9/10 user pages unreadable
3) Basic grammar errors: e.g. on my user pages it says " Hamish!'s Friends Comments", shouldn't that be " Hamish!'s Friend's Comments"? (')
4) Random Capitalisation On Words: e.g. In the user areas the mail area buttons are called: "inbox" "friend requests" "sent" etc. whereas in other places everything is capitalised e.g. "Cool New People" or "Visit My School Home Page". Terrible!
5) It fails validation with approx 280 errors!

On the other hand I have to say Facebook is one of the best websites I have seen in a long time - Strict XHTML with lots of nifty AJAX and extremely easy to use, not to mention it looks pretty nice. Also the News feed must have been incredibly difficult to program and is extremely informative.

Just to clarify I am not a social networking whore, these are just two examples that stick out.
 
Thing is all those points are purely academic :)

However, they're the reason that everyone loves Myspace in school but the graduate to Facebook when at uni, even if 99.99% of the users (obviously) can't put their finger on it :)
 
I agree!

I'm currently getting my better half to make her own website and ditch all her myspace/bebo/facebook accounts.

There's some horrible coding behind these sites. I suppose they need to make them relatively versatile so that people can put in code that wouldn't validate in html1.0 and still let the pages load :p

Then again, if everyone was forced to learn proper code just to make a little blog page for themselves, half the people in HG&P would be out of business!!!!;)
 
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punky_munky said:
The news feed on Facebook is incredibly clever... Anyone have any insights into how it is done?
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A list of recent events for all your friends, then select some at random based on your weightings, relatively simple but extremely effective :)

I love Facebook - it's designed extremely well, is always quick, has never given me any errors, and generally doesn't 'feel' like a huge site 'should' (slow, complicated, slightly-outdated-tech (due to the scale of things)), etc :) :cool:
 
punky_munky said:
Yes I understand that much but how does it record the times that everything happened? Is it some complex SQL or what?
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The times? Just store the date in the database, as with any other field. And then group displays if more than (a sensible number) happened within (a sensible timeframe) to reduce clutter :)
 
These "I hate myspace" threads are started because of one common denominator:

It is such a simple idea, the thread starters are all kicking themselves for not having been the one to start it, thus are not the ones rolling in it. I.e. Jealousy.

If you don't like MySpace, don't enter it into your address bar, don't click go, and certainly do not collect £200. It's really that easy.
 
I hate myspace and am not even remotely jealous of not having invented it

I would rather live a monetarily poor life and not be an evil awful terrible human being than have invented that horrifying awful terrible farce of a site
 
So why do you hate it? Why do you hate a website which does nothing more than allow people to post blogs/crap compared to sites that are pro-segregation and such that go on coexisting without even as much as a mouses fart of a mention?
 
MySpace works because of the very reasons you listed. Because no-one (well over 100m people) cares about any of that. I signed up on facebook the other week, its well designed and has some good ideas, but it is severely lacking on the actual social networking part... I mean, the webmaster/moderators have to make different groups for you to be part of, so I have to either be groupless, or join one that really doesnt apply to me, like Newcastle (eugh)... And really, it doesnt offer anything innovative, which is what is needed to set itself apart.

Your homepage is not even slightly customisable, as funny as it sounds Myspace has done the internet a great service, all those people's homepages that said "look at pictures of my dog", had visit counters 9 years old with 10 visits and animated dancing babies all over the page, myspace sucked them all up and let people vent their personal crapness onto the web.

Being a webmaster myself, and having designed many sites it is somewhat weird to install the virtues of bad html and allowing people to make a total mss of your site, but its nice for me to join in, to add stupid flash objects and stuff that no one cares about.

Also... On the subject of tables... If it aint broke dont fix it... Tables work just as well as they ever did.
 
Has anyone ever found a really nicely styled myspace site? I’ve never seen one, not even one of the official band ones. I like the concept, it’s clearly a popular choice amongst web users with no clue about html, but I wonder if it would always frustrate someone competent with web layouts.
 
paulsheffII said:
Has anyone ever found a really nicely styled myspace site? I’ve never seen one, not even one of the official band ones. I like the concept, it’s clearly a popular choice amongst web users with no clue about html, but I wonder if it would always frustrate someone competent with web layouts.
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There are actually some pretty nice MySpace profiles out there. Can't remember any as I don't use the site but rather stumble across them when generally browsing.
 
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