# MySpace 29 Hacker News commenters recommended MySpace and 16 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 10 of 13 months. **Verdict:** People recommend MySpace for customizable profiles, indie music discovery and a raw, uncommercial feel. Critics point to cluttered pages, poor management and weak monetization. ## Why people recommend it - Customizable profiles with CSS (4 comments): "MySpace literally let you inject HTML, CSS, and (unofficially) JavaScript into your profile's freeform text fields" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46665069)) "myspace allowed you to customize the crap out of it with CSS" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315872)) "customizable page that really feels like your own space" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026109)) - Indie music and artist discovery (4 comments): "Myspace was the last time I felt connected to the internet. It was raw, uncommercial and had great indie bands who were starting out." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784100)) "The result was great: not only did you get the music you were interested in, you got a lot more you'd never heard of." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48931087)) "MySpace did ticket sales and music streaming and people were designing their profiles in wildly creative ways" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49573434)) - Variety of creative personal pages (4 comments): "MySpace did ticket sales and music streaming and people were designing their profiles in wildly creative ways" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49573434)) "I could go for some pages that look bad vs the homogenized social media where everyone's page is the same." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235518)) "there was more variety on myspace than is now on facebook" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46672709)) - Nostalgia for the early internet (4 comments): "I roasted MySpace hard back in the day, but now I kind of miss it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230454)) "It really whipped the llamas ass. Let's do that again." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435940)) "remember Friendster, MySpace, LiveJournal, AO3, etc.?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512303)) ## What people warn about - Cluttered, slow-loading pages (3 comments): "there was just more noise and the general atmosphere was very messy" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48801582)) "every Myspace page was so full of garbage that they barely loaded on most people's computers" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46213096)) "All I can remember are the animated gifs flash and spinning around on people's pages" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230111)) - Poor management and bad decisions (3 comments): "Myspace had certain problems and probably didn't scale well, it had UX problems and management problems" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49694340)) "they ruined their own site with a (separate) series of boneheaded decisions" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46462504)) "They tried monetizing early and hard after the Murdoch takeover." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49371376)) - Lost photos and deleted songs (2 comments): "I wish I could get the MySpace photos back. Alas, login has been scrubbed on their site" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482328)) "the millions of songs they deleted in 2018 with no backup" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230562)) - No feed and poor discoverability (2 comments): "Myspace had that awkward problem of discoverability with people using screen names" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47644402)) "myspace never had a feed that showed you your friend's updates" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090158)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Bluesky](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bluesky.md): 317 recommend - [Facebook](https://hackerapproved.com/p/facebook.md): 289 recommend - [Mastodon](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mastodon.md): 273 recommend - [X (formerly Twitter)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/x.md): 264 recommend - [Instagram](https://hackerapproved.com/p/instagram.md): 212 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://myspace.com/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "MySpace", https://hackerapproved.com/p/myspace/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).