MySpace
Ranked 10 of 31 social networks by recommenders
People recommend MySpace for customizable profiles, indie music discovery and a raw, uncommercial feel. Critics point to cluttered pages, poor management and weak monetization.
People recommend MySpace for customizable profiles, indie music discovery and a raw, uncommercial feel. Critics point to cluttered pages, poor management and weak monetization.
45 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 29
- criticize it
- 16
- approval share
- 64%
Recommended in 10 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 29 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1.8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 10 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Customizable profiles with CSS
“MySpace literally let you inject HTML, CSS, and (unofficially) JavaScript into your profile's freeform text fields”
Comment from 18 Jan 2026 in “The recurring dream of replacing developers” “myspace allowed you to customize the crap out of it with CSS”
Comment from 16 Aug 2026 in “Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out” “customizable page that really feels like your own space”
Comment from 5 May 2026 in “The best is over: The fun has been optimized out of the Internet” - Comment from 17 Jan 2026 in “An Ode to the Return of Wysiwyg”
Indie music and artist discovery
“Myspace was the last time I felt connected to the internet. It was raw, uncommercial and had great indie bands who were starting out.”
Comment from 15 Apr 2026 in “The Internet Is a Place” “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.”
Comment from 16 Jul 2026 in “The lost joy of music piracy” “MySpace did ticket sales and music streaming and people were designing their profiles in wildly creative ways”
Comment from 5 Sep 2026 in “Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you” - Comment from 30 Sep 2026 in “RSS Feeds for Last.fm”
Variety of creative personal pages
“MySpace did ticket sales and music streaming and people were designing their profiles in wildly creative ways”
Comment from 5 Sep 2026 in “Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you” “I could go for some pages that look bad vs the homogenized social media where everyone's page is the same.”
Comment from 9 Aug 2026 in “Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted” “there was more variety on myspace than is now on facebook”
Comment from 18 Jan 2026 in “Tired of AI, people are committing to the analog lifestyle in 2026” - Comment from 5 May 2026 in “The best is over: The fun has been optimized out of the Internet”
Nostalgia for the early internet
“I roasted MySpace hard back in the day, but now I kind of miss it.”
Comment from 9 Aug 2026 in “Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted” “It really whipped the llamas ass. Let's do that again.”
Comment from 7 Jun 2026 in “Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job” “remember Friendster, MySpace, LiveJournal, AO3, etc.?”
Comment from 31 Aug 2026 in “Early 2000s were peak of humanity” - Comment from 9 Aug 2026 in “Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Cluttered, slow-loading pages
“there was just more noise and the general atmosphere was very messy”
Comment from 6 Jul 2026 in “Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected” “every Myspace page was so full of garbage that they barely loaded on most people's computers”
Comment from 10 Dec 2025 in “PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance” “All I can remember are the animated gifs flash and spinning around on people's pages”
Comment from 9 Aug 2026 in “Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted” Poor management and bad decisions
“Myspace had certain problems and probably didn't scale well, it had UX problems and management problems”
Comment from 14 Sep 2026 in “Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017)” “they ruined their own site with a (separate) series of boneheaded decisions”
Comment from 2 Jan 2026 in “A website to destroy all websites” “They tried monetizing early and hard after the Murdoch takeover.”
Comment from 20 Aug 2026 in “Mark Zuckerberg's AI Manifesto Shows How Little the AI Future Offers” Lost photos and deleted songs
“I wish I could get the MySpace photos back. Alas, login has been scrubbed on their site”
Comment from 3 Jan 2026 in “Why your early 2000s photos are probably lost forever” “the millions of songs they deleted in 2018 with no backup”
Comment from 9 Aug 2026 in “Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted” No feed and poor discoverability
“Myspace had that awkward problem of discoverability with people using screen names”
Comment from 4 Apr 2026 in “Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta” “myspace never had a feed that showed you your friend's updates”
Comment from 28 Jul 2026 in “Substack writers, you need a website”
Other social networks people recommend
The four most recommended other social networks, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky | 317 | 401 | 44% | 12 | 1 yr5 owners | — |
| 289 | 1,338 | 18% | 13 | 14 yrs42 owners | — | |
| Mastodon | 273 | 220 | 55% | 12 | 3 yrs12 owners | — |
| X (formerly Twitter) | 264 | 984 | 21% | 13 | 13 yrs13 owners | — |
| MySpaceThis page | 29 | 16 | 64% | 10 | — | — |
What people said
39 of the 48 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Myspace was bought out in 2005, and it had been dead for years before that”
“MySpace in my eyes was superior, I could connect with some of my favorite artists”
“Myspace had certain problems and probably didn't scale well, it had UX problems and management problems”
“MySpace did ticket sales and music streaming and people were designing their profiles in wildly creative ways”
“remember Friendster, MySpace, LiveJournal, AO3, etc.?”
“They tried monetizing early and hard after the Murdoch takeover.”
“myspace allowed you to customize the crap out of it with CSS”
“I could go for some pages that look bad vs the homogenized social media where everyone's page is the same.”
“the millions of songs they deleted in 2018 with no backup”
“I roasted MySpace hard back in the day, but now I kind of miss it.”
“Sure to be as successful as the Digg resurrection lol”
“I have a real soft spot for MySpace.”
“All I can remember are the animated gifs flash and spinning around on people's pages”
“Facebook won because it watched MySpace mistakes and fixed them.”
“MySpace was a) awful, b) only used by a tiny tiny fraction of people”
“myspace never had a feed that showed you your friend's updates”
“Myspace was reasonable about granular privacy controls”
“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.”
“it has gone the way of MySpace and Oracle”
“Myspace was decent, it had a wall but that was about it”
“there was just more noise and the general atmosphere was very messy”
“It really whipped the llamas ass. Let's do that again.”
“It never ends well for the new owner. Not just Stack Overflow but also Tumblr, Vine, MySpace, Twitter, and more.”
“customizable page that really feels like your own space”
“the wonderfully chaotic mess that was Myspace”
“Myspace was the last time I felt connected to the internet. It was raw, uncommercial and had great indie bands who were starting out.”
“Myspace had that awkward problem of discoverability with people using screen names”
“compared to MySpace, I can't remember anything else that was comparable”
“300 million users in 2007 is mighty impressive”
“Back then it was a platform to communicate with friends, and maybe even find new friends to meet up with.”
“That's why we went from MySpace to LiveJournal.”
“there was more variety on myspace than is now on facebook”
“MySpace literally let you inject HTML, CSS, and (unofficially) JavaScript into your profile's freeform text fields”
“people could customize theur pages heavily with CSS”
“That was a horrible idea (Samy, XSS, etc.).”
“I wish I could get the MySpace photos back. Alas, login has been scrubbed on their site”
“they ruined their own site with a (separate) series of boneheaded decisions”
“every Myspace page was so full of garbage that they barely loaded on most people's computers”
“the confluence of Neopets, MySpace, Geocities/Tripod, Xanga, etc. that really formed the base for so much of my career”
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