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I vote we return to the age of late Geocities, forums, and early blogs. Less conformity in design, less "social" by modern definition, but more people who just
by wybiral 8y ago
I vote we return to the age of late Geocities, forums, and early blogs. Less conformity in design, less "social" by modern definition, but more people who just liked one topic enough to build something about it and communities forming around them.
- gnomodromo 8y agoI have a free chat function on my site where the comments disappear after a while, but I'm still experimenting with it http://www.uptopnews.com/comments/992yhc3u0bg/?t=breaking http://www.uptopnews.com/comments/992yhc3u0bg/?t=breaking
- nunodonato 8y agothis is why I keep my old-style blog, and read rss from others. that's the real internet for me, where the real content and people are
- gaius 8y agoMy group of real-world friends did an overnight migration (well not quite but once it started it was very fast) from Livejournal to Facebook; in retrospect that was a mistake and we all should have stayed on LJ. The killer feature? Being able to tag people in photos, such an obvious thing, but LJ was unable to do it. Add events and it was game over for LJ. Incidentally, I said at the time, it was a massive strategic blunder for Google+ to launch without full integration with the Google Calendar. People want a one-stop shop and FB was it for photos and events.
- krapp 8y agoThe thing is, there's plenty of room on the web for both, and always has been, but people seem to only want one or the other.
- wybiral 8y agoIt's more of an internet culture change. People used to be more into making and curating their own little corner of the web and that's how the early internet felt. Now everyone gathers at the garden between the walls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
- RileyJames 8y agoWhen I was in high school, this was MySpace. I remember all my friends learning HTML, or at least enough to copy and paste sufficiently, to build out their custom profiles. It was a constant process of landing on a friends profile, being amazed by some feature or design and then going back to work on your own. It also felt more like people’s profiles expressed through design, or music, or gifs, or other media, rather than what they had to say or any form of posts. I don’t really remember “posting status updates” at all, but I’m sure it was a feature. And then at some point Facebook wiped it all out. I can’t see people wanting to manage their own homepage. But then again, I remember we all did in high school for MySpace... maybe we will again.
- _lce0 8y ago> I can’t see people wanting to manage their own homepage. But then again, I remember we all did in high school for MySpace... maybe we will again. The keyboard was what allowed such interaction.. How are nowadays' teens to manage such designs if their main device is a touchscreen?
- thatoneuser 8y agoOnly thing is I think MySpace was far too catered to youths. I really don’t imagine my parents customizing MySpace like they do Facebook. Facebook has evolved into an interface that can be ingested by pretty much anyone. No matter what you do, you’re not going to make html intuitive to everyone.
- ineedasername 8y agoOh! that just reminded me of webrings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring) I liked those.