I just stumbled upon this blog someone on spacehey wrote about Friendrewind being AI slop apparently. I've been a user of both platforms and can barely find any elements of "AI slop"
I find it comical that someone from a site that barely is functioning is slandering a website that can do everything better than spacehey
I'll copy the first few paragraphs from the blog but not anymore than that as it goes on and on.
If you want to read it all, here it is: https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=2215731
"Everything, every single feature, every pop up, most of the text, it's all AI. All of it was written entirely by AI.
First off, the sourcecode. AI. Littered throughout the sourcecode are comments, already a trademark for AI usage, especially when the code isn't shared between a team. This is a solo project! You don't write disclaimers everywhere in your own code. Every single page the same few massive chunks of code pasted, when it would be a lot easier to just refer to a .js file. Which none of the pages do. None of them call for anything, actually, not even css, which is really strange. Its all on a single massive block of code. All of them are 5000+ lines. The profile settings page alone is 7000+ lines. Profile settings. Thats crazy. For reference, the page im making this blog on, the create blog entry page, the source code is only 212 lines, and only has one comment.
Other stuff is pasted in randomly to the code too, like, a second <head>? A second <doctype=HTML>? Theres no sense of naming schemes anywhere. Every line of code is written cleanly, perfect formatting, no mistakes, sometimes with nice little comments to explain every part of it, and then its shoved into some mess of unorganized spaghetti ai amalgamate.
Don't even get me started on the styling, the styling is what screams AI the most to me, without even considering all the ai slop vomit you find underneath it. Everything seems fine and cohesive up until you click anywhere off of the homepage and you're hit with jank formatting shoved in the middle, sometimes with margins, matched with gradients and drop shadows that don't get used anywhere else, randomly placed round edges, ease-of-use features that dont appear on any other page, transitions and animations that don't appear on any other page despite being used on the same element, different fonts, different designs as a whole. There is no cohesion at all. I mean, thats not too abnormal for small indie-web sites, but the styles being used aren't quirky or fun or anything, they're all aiming for a professional feel, all corporate. Almooost like they were just mashed together by someone who didn't actually put the time into designing each one..."