Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:19 am
You have to understand what you are thinking about is completely unreal.
A community of PHP developers offering assistance, advice, discussion, and friendship.
http://forums.devnetwork.net/
Rubbish. MySpace is just a website. It's become very popular, but the actual premise of writing a community network website is very basic, and actually quite easy. Getting it to be as popular as MySpace is unlikely, but you'll never know until you try.Ree wrote:You have to understand what you are thinking about is completely unreal.
I've been in discussions about starting an opensource project for a myspace competitor with several other developers. Drop me a pm, and when we get started, I'll make sure you get a message about it.realestninja wrote:I suppose no one wants to help.
It is possible. It is improbable, but it is absolutely possible.Ree wrote:onion2k, just think what you've just said. It's just a website. Damn right.The guy has no php skills and wants someone to teach him over AOL! Do you really believe that someone requesting this could build a fully functional and secure enough website of myspace.com caliber? NOT possible.
I can't believe you're so naive. Never anything comes out of nowhere just like that.Roja wrote:It is possible. It is improbable, but it is absolutely possible.Ree wrote:onion2k, just think what you've just said. It's just a website. Damn right.The guy has no php skills and wants someone to teach him over AOL! Do you really believe that someone requesting this could build a fully functional and secure enough website of myspace.com caliber? NOT possible.
It's not me being a roadblock, it's the guy's knowledge.Roja wrote: Stop being a roadblock.
Google did. QLink (which later became AOL) did. So did Flickr.Ree wrote:I can't believe you're so naive. Never anything comes out of nowhere just like that.
He isn't the only person interested in doing this sort of thing. We've had a dozen discussions about it in the last two months on these forums! Just because he doesn't have the skill (today) to program the ENTIRE thing himself does not mean he has zero value.Ree wrote:It's not me being a roadblock, it's the guy's knowledge.Roja wrote:Stop being a roadblock.
For me, the best way for me to learn is to work on something I love. Thats what he wants to do. If you don't want to help him, find another thread to help with.Ree wrote:Seriously, realestninja, if you want to code something like myspace that would not collapse after a month, basic php knowledge and a couple of 'lessons-to-get-you-started' over instant messenger by someone who may have little (or even false) knowledge himself won't be enough. It just doesn't happen this way. Try simple things first, read, fail, then read again, learn and later move on to more sophisticated stuff.
Like it or not, MySpace is just a website. It's a very basic CMS and messaging system that's been scaled up to handle a large number of simultaneous users. That's all there is to it.Ree wrote:It's just a website. Damn right.
I don't know about the whole being scaled up part.. I think they just kept adding more servers and hoping for the best.onion2k wrote:Like it or not, MySpace is just a website. It's a very basic CMS and messaging system that's been scaled up to handle a large number of simultaneous users. That's all there is to it.Ree wrote:It's just a website. Damn right.
That's how I scale things up.d3ad1ysp0rk wrote:I don't know about the whole being scaled up part.. I think they just kept adding more servers and hoping for the best.onion2k wrote:Like it or not, MySpace is just a website. It's a very basic CMS and messaging system that's been scaled up to handle a large number of simultaneous users. That's all there is to it.Ree wrote:It's just a website. Damn right.