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This site is a good example of what a site should not be. It is the antithesis of what winamp was.
by marcodiego 5y ago
This site is a good example of what a site should not be. It is the antithesis of what winamp was.
- episode0x01 5y agoYeah you weren't kidding. "Heavy", to say the least
- willcipriano 5y agoThis site probably requires more resources then the original Winamp required.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoProbably? The original Winamp ran on hardware much slower than anything you can buy new these days. This website, not a chance.
- robotmay 5y agoThis website doesn't even run smoothly on my overpowered gaming desktop. Back in 2000 I'd have never thought we'd be at the point where I can run games in 4K happily but not scroll through a website without it lagging up.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoDude, this site almost certainly requires orders of magnitude more resources than Win95 + Winamp.
- notyourwork 5y agoIt reminds me of Apple product pages where the scroll is hijacked.
- ChuckNorris89 5y agoI was also caught off guard by this horror. I was expecting a really lean and to the point website that reflects the qualities of the original Winamp. This really DOESN'T whip the llamma's ass. Here's the original website in 1998 for reference. https://web.archive.org/web/19981205015145/http://winamp.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/19981205015145/http://winamp.com... The more I look at it, the more I hate the modern web. It's madness.
- indymike 5y agoChuckNorris89 > This really DOESN'T whip the llamma's ass. Came to say this. Also, Username checks out.
- erebearalte 5y agoThe new one sucks, but the old one sucks too imo. I know you don't say old websites were great but I've seen alot of people saying that and yet their examples are bad too, usually they look simple and efficient but they're horrible, like spanning the whole page or not enough empty spaces or bad use of colors.
- olyjohn 5y agoHey if empty spaces and bad use of colors are all you can complain about, then that's a win IMO. At least it still works, which only time will tell for current websites. But I have this sneaky feeling that time wont be so friendly.
- babypuncher 5y agoThe current winamp.com works perfectly fine. Everyone's complaints about it are 100% cosmetic, just like these complaints about the 1998 website
- progman32 5y agoIncorrect, though. The page does not work on my phone running latest Firefox. Page goes in a refresh loop.
- Keyframe 5y agoWe've moved on from flash to.. flash.
- handrous 5y agoMuch that was "obviously" bad in the mid '00s is good now. Mixing markup and style, heavy reliance on vector graphics and drawing things with CSS at runtime. Flash reborn as this sort of thing, but with much shittier creation tools and higher memory use.
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- Keyframe 5y ago2advanced would be proud.
- j_4 5y agoFroze my browser for a good 10 seconds haha. What a disaster this is going to be
- CountDrewku 5y agoForm over function. So, yep not what Winamp is about.
- blowski 5y agoI wonder how much of this is nostalgia. Winamp was awesome, but given that skinning was part of its popularity, form was definitely a big deal.
- Minor49er 5y agoIf the form impeded function, it was easy to change. Some skins even made sure to cover all of Winamp's sections properly. The Invader Zim skin appealed to my 15-year-old tastes and still offered visible, functional controls with a readable playlist. Some skins looked cool, but if they removed options, they weren't used other than to show off to friends on occasion
- derefr 5y agoWinamp skins were surprisingly restrictive, though; you couldn't really skin Winamp in a way that impeded its functionality / created mystery-meat navigation. Every Winamp skin was fundamentally just a set of textures applied to the same standard controls layout: https://skins.webamp.org/ https://skins.webamp.org/ Windows Media Player, meanwhile... https://www.theskinsfactory.com/wmpdesign https://www.theskinsfactory.com/wmpdesign
- captbaritone 5y agoThat was true for "classic" skins, but starting with Winamp 3, Winamp supported free form "modern" skins that were defined in XML and had a custom scripting language so that the author could define their own behavior.
- derefr 5y agoTrue; though I'm pretty sure the WinAmp anyone here actually has any level of nostalgia for, is WinAmp 2. WinAmp 3 was so lacklustre that they brought back a lot of WinAmp 2 stuff and called the result WinAmp 5. (And then everyone continued to use the Classic skins, which WinAmp 5 supported.)
- s_dev 5y agoWas hoping for something like this: https://winxp.vercel.app/ https://winxp.vercel.app/
- derefr 5y agoYou want https://webamp.org/ https://webamp.org/ . There's also https://skins.webamp.org/ https://skins.webamp.org/, which, while looking at first glance like an image gallery, actually loads each skin into the fully-interactive WebAmp client as a way of previewing the skin.
- blackhaz 5y agoOooh, my fans are a-spinnin'!
- Kye 5y agoSix cores and a 0.3 gigabit connection and it feels like a Flash page on a Pentium and dialup. Very nostalgic.
- dzhiurgis 5y agoI think we are conditioned for everything so instant and forget flash pages on dial up took minutes to load.
- vips7L 5y agoIt froze firefox while it was initially loading and scrolling down barely works...
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoHoly crap, you weren't kidding. This is an unusable abomination.
- emodendroket 5y agoIt's not really that bad and nobody is going to be interested in a project whose Web site looks like it was last updated 20 years ago.
- skeeter2020 5y agoAnd yet I run foobar2000 daily and it looks exactly like this. Why do people want to put a bunch of distraction between their music and their ears?
- emodendroket 5y agoWell, like most people, I've found streaming music is much more convenient than maintaining my own library and that's the way I listen to music most of the time. The discovery features those platforms offer are also welcome.
- jeegsy 5y agoThose discovery features are quite useful in keeping my library up to date
- maccard 5y agoI have a 32 core machine, with 128GB of ram and an 3970x GPU, and the page actually stalls for 5 seconds. That is utterly incredible.
- PostThisTooFast 5y agoWinAmp was shit, a pioneer of the idiotic "skinning" fad and the conversion of UI into an Advent calendar of cutesy hidden gimmicks. I wanted to listen to my music, not play Myst with the jukebox app. Good riddance.
- sturza 5y agoWorks normal on iOS
- wolpoli 5y agoThe print design people have really taken over web site designs these days. This would have been a very slick and expensive brochure in paper form, and we don't see that many of those in paper form because of the printing cost.