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crayola · Feb 27, 2007, 08:57 PM

for those of you who are ex spymac members please join us on Saturday, March 3rd for Spymac Revival Day. the spymac community is dieing and i'm just trying to get people to come together for one last hurrah and celebrate old times.

here's the music video i created for it: Spymac.com :: Spymac Music Video

hope to see some old names there. it'd mean alot.

-cray

mduell · Feb 27, 2007, 09:36 PM

The servers will probably burn down if all the former members return.

Count me out.

crayola · Feb 27, 2007, 09:41 PM

Originally Posted by mduell

The servers will probably burn down if all the former members return.

Count me out.

heya mduell, i remember you

though it's just me tryin to bring the magic back just for one day. not askin anyone to stay if they don't wanna. hope ya change your mind.

Kevin · Feb 28, 2007, 06:25 AM

There was ever magic there?

Nivag · Feb 28, 2007, 06:34 AM

Originally Posted by crayola

for those of you who are ex spymac members please join us on Saturday, March 3rd for Spymac Revival Day. the spymac community is dieing and i'm just trying to get people to come together for one last hurrah and celebrate old times.

here's the music video i created for it: Spymac.com :: Spymac Music Video

hope to see some old names there. it'd mean alot.

-cray

not sure i'm wanted, i'm not on that video!!

Philip J. Fry · Feb 28, 2007, 10:19 AM

Spymac is dying still? Just checked out the site and oops, someone forgot to hire a designer.

zro · Feb 28, 2007, 01:31 PM

The forums already died a couple months ago. Last time I opened my bookmark for it I got a 404.

Mithras · Feb 28, 2007, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by Philip J. Fry

Spymac is dying still? Just checked out the site and oops, someone forgot to hire a designer.

They've been forgetting that for years, though.

Chuckit · Feb 28, 2007, 02:00 PM

Isn't that the site that used to fake product shots?

MindFad · Feb 28, 2007, 02:02 PM

I don't remember SpyMac looking like that. What the hell happened? What is it even about anyway?

mitchell_pgh · Feb 28, 2007, 02:24 PM

I remember when Spymac actually looked rather cool. I think I registered, but I am a loyal MacNNer.

Mithras · Feb 28, 2007, 02:25 PM

MindFad -- Read this:
SpyMac Relaunches as Ugly YouTube Clone

I was amazed too. Actually, what amazes me most is that after so many years of lurching from one bad business plan and crappy web design to another, they still had it in them to do one more transformation, into something even more hideous and malformed than what had come before.

mitchell_pgh · Feb 28, 2007, 02:45 PM

Originally Posted by Mithras

MindFad -- Read this:
SpyMac Relaunches as Ugly YouTube Clone

I was amazed too. Actually, what amazes me most is that after so many years of lurching from one bad business plan and crappy web design to another, they still had it in them to do one more transformation, into something even more hideous and malformed than what had come before.

Ha ha... great link.

I think their business plan is "See something that's cool... wait ~3+ years for it to become less cool, make a lower quality copy of it."

Like one of the posters said, "It looks like they took the Spy and Mac out of Spymac"

Adam Betts · Feb 28, 2007, 04:21 PM

Wow.

crayola · Feb 28, 2007, 07:07 PM

well you guys have every right to slam spymac. they totally ruined what was once a good thing. since the end of version 3 (about 2 years ago) it's been a total trainwreck. the Spymac Revival Day is my attempt to try to resurrect (however briefly) the remaining tatters of the community. and yeah there are a few of us die-hards still there. we've stayed not because we're die-hard spymac fans but because we enjoy each others company and have known each other for years despite how bad it's become.

there is still a community there. it's very very small now; and since spymac's latest upgrade we've been reduced to the backdoor entrance. the actual community can be found at Spymac.com

spymac did that so that the public who visit it's main section (the YouTube ripoff) would not have to read all the bad things those of us that have stuck with them for years are saying about it.

Spymac Revival Day, to me, isn't a day to celebrate spymac, but a day to reconnect with those who made spymac the fabulous community it used to be but went away.

JoshuaZ · Feb 28, 2007, 07:10 PM

Originally Posted by crayola

. it's very very small now; and since spymac's latest upgrade we've been reduced to the backdoor entrance.

As much as I once enjoyed Spymac, there are plenty of reasons to just let it die off naturally.

And I will refrain from making a joke about Spymac`s `backdoor`. That wouldn`t be nice.

besson3c · Feb 28, 2007, 08:41 PM

What version of Spymac tried to offer all of these internet services such as multi-gig email accounts? Were they ever successful at providing solid service?

If they were really trying to attract people on the merits of large email accounts competing with Google and the like, why would they run this service on a domain called Spymac.com?

Seriously, what was their focal point back during its peak? Community? How did that make it money?

Not trying to sound overly critical of their business, although I suppose this does... Just trying to understand what their goals were. I never did figure that out.

besson3c · Feb 28, 2007, 08:45 PM

For that matter, what are their goals now? If they wish to compete with YouTube, why not start up a new domain name?

mac128k-1984 · Feb 28, 2007, 09:22 PM

Wow what an ugly site, I can understand people leaving, its a wannabe youtube that seems to fail on a number of levels.

crayola · 09:54 PM

Originally Posted by besson3c

For that matter, what are their goals now? If they wish to compete with YouTube, why not start up a new domain name?

their original goal was to incorporate the rest of the site into the new look. however after the negative responses from many longtime members they decided to keep Leapfrog (the gallery) seperate from the community part of spymac. so effectively there's now two seperate spymac's

Spymac Leapfrog: Spymac.com
and
Spymac Classic: Spymac.com

spymac made Leapfrog the main page. the only link to the heart and soul of spymac is at the bottom of the page at a link called "community". from there you can find classic spymac

aristotles · Feb 28, 2007, 11:18 PM

I miss the old spymac. I paid for the "club" but that did not last long and now the .mac-like software does not work right anymore.

Web 2.0 is a stupid and ugly gimmick that should die.

cybergoober · Mar 1, 2007, 08:01 AM

Haha. Within 30 minutes of signing back in at spymac, I got a message from wdlove in my profile area. He seems to think we are friends, though I have never interacted with him (though I do recognize the name from here).

Dakar² · Mar 1, 2007, 08:05 AM

Was he looking forward to chatting with you (thumbsup)?

zro · Mar 1, 2007, 08:40 AM

Same here. Had to turn him down. Twice!

I haven't the patience for people who are after the biggest list of "friends."

besson3c · Mar 2, 2007, 08:16 AM

Originally Posted by zro

Same here. Had to turn him down. Twice!

I haven't the patience for people who are after the biggest list of "friends."

He's not looking to make it to the top of the social ladder, he is just an older retired guy that enjoys chatting and having online relationships.

Peter · Mar 2, 2007, 09:53 AM

thats what they all say you realize?

besson3c · Mar 2, 2007, 10:02 AM

Originally Posted by Peter

thats what they all say you realize?

Well, I have talked with him enough to be convinced that he is an older retired dude, that is the point I was trying to make... He's not a MySpace teeny bopper.

Nivag · 11:26 AM

[cough]grooming[/cough]

Peter · Mar 2, 2007, 11:33 AM

turtle777 · Mar 3, 2007, 01:14 PM

Haha, he said Spymac.

-t

Adam Betts · Mar 3, 2007, 01:47 PM

If you remix the letters in SpyMac, it's almost MySpace

besson3c · Mar 3, 2007, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by Adam Betts

If you remix the letters in SpyMac, it's almost MySpace

dun dunh daahhhhh!!

The suspense continues!