Orkut had an excellent user interface: public scrap books where you could leave messages for each other that anyone can see, no word limits, no voting, no infin

Orkut had an excellent user interface: public scrap books where you could leave messages for each other that anyone can see, no word limits, no voting, no infinite scroll, no AI systems trying to "maximize engagement", etc. Modern social networks, save hacker news, looks over-engineered. It is difficult to find the right balance between over and under engineering, however Orkut could have used a couple of features: strict moderation and threaded conversations, but that was it.