Yesterday there was yet another “FriendRewind uses AI” post. Quite frankly, I am sick of hearing about it lmao. Def3ct has said multiple times that there is no AI here.
If y’all hate it here so bad, go back to Spacehey with the other three users still left🥴
But if you do that, you should probably give this a read first👀
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I'll do things the way I want to do them in the way I want and how I want and your input is irrelevant and I really don't give a shit what you have to say about it so go piss the fuck off. I really don't care if you like the way I'm doing things, I'm happy with it and that is all that counts. Your opinion means absolutely 💯% ZILCH.
@♠︎John K Callender♠︎
someone needs a nap
@marasuppukii yeah i was gonna say.. opinion challenge and answered like a true crybaby.
acting like he’s five years old, embarrassing
@♠︎John K Callender♠︎ no reason to get so heated and resort to swearing over someone providing a different perspective. but I'll go ahead and piss the fuck off, sure. have a great day :)
@♠︎John K Callender♠︎ For someone who accuses others of being crybabies, you sure are acting like one. Take your pills and go to sleep, gramps.
@thevoidisred If it gets any crazier I’ll have it locked lmao
hi hi
this is absolutely nothing against friendrewind btw, it's miles ahead of spacehey and i'm not getting involved in that debate lol. if anything, i think friendrewind is way ahead of the game when it comes to the whole myspace revival. the inclusion of things like music, videos, photos and actual age verification makes it feel like they're trying to recreate the whole experience and go beyond, rather than just making another social site with a myspaceish layout.
but some of the features on friendrewind do look vibe coded to me. when i'm talking about that, i'm mostly talking about the messages and music sections. by vibe coded i just mean code that's been generated with ai from a description of what you want, rather than something you've necessarily built out manually. obviously i have no idea how those features were actually made, so i'm not saying they were ai generated.
the main reason i get that impression is honestly just the ui. the messages and music sections feel a little clunky and annoying to use at the moment, and visually they're quite bland and basic compared to the rest of what friendrewind is trying to do. there isn't really much graphic design or custom visual direction layered over the underlying components, so they have that very recognisable default ai interface look. obviously that doesn't necessarily mean they are vibe coded, but when an interface feels like it's missing that last layer of design and polish, it's pretty easy to mistake it for something that was generated with ai.
i notice vibe coding on people's profiles a lot too, which obviously isn't a crime. not everyone has the time or interest to learn css and build everything from scratch, and honestly fair enough. i'm mostly just glad people are actually putting stuff on their profiles and getting involved rather than leaving the whole thing blank.
i've also noticed a lot of the site seems to use existing open source code and templates from github, which honestly isn't unusual at all. spacehey seems to have done similar things with some of its features, and i've noticed other myspace revival sites doing it too. after seeing enough of them you start recognising the same templates and little bits of code everywhere haha.
and honestly, defect seems to genuinely be putting a lot of effort into the site and actually listening to what the community wants, which matters a lot more to me than whether every single feature was written completely from scratch.
even if some of the features are vibe coded, open source, adapted from existing projects, whatever, i don't really care. the fact that someone is actually trying to build something, add features people have been asking for, and get people involved in the process is what counts. i'd much rather have someone experimenting and making something than another dead myspace clone that gets abandoned after three months lol.
anyway, this is really just something i've noticed after spending way too much time looking at how these sites are put together. i'm genuinely excited to see where friendrewind goes, because i think it's probably one of the more interesting attempts at bringing this whole style of internet back. :)
Very Scary Fairy✨ wrote:
@aheartoffire1996 This is such a strange response lmfao
@Very Scary Fairy✨ Ew. Blocked. It's one thing to disagree about using AI, another to come after you like that. Overly defensive much? Sheesh!
@𝕋𝕙𝕖ℍ𝕦𝕞𝕒𝕟ℝ𝟘𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕥 You should be able to! FriendRewind's designed to read your SpaceHey code <<<3
Yep! def managed to get it through after a while
weighing in with my thoughts
the only thing which actually matters is the community as a whole
its the users who help create the content that keeps the site engaging
and on par with that, regular feedback between end users and staff
which this site has and others (for whatever reasons) don't
idc if its a labor of love, gpt assisted or held together with string and tape
it works, it's active, it's fun to use - that's all i rly need to know 
@aheartoffire1996 kinda respect the honesty.
I found friend rewind in a bunch of “don’t go to friend rewind” posts in SpaceHey. I hardly was on there because it was so dead. I’m glad I logged in and seen that because I really like it here.
Ugh seriously. I've been trying to straighten things out over there, but just about every time I try, people start getting defensive. It's almost like they care more about starting pointless dramas over other sites rather than understanding the facts.
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