convore.json/groups/hacker-news/do-we-need-a-new-geocities/messages.json

[{"user_id": 7380, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299664518.6091959, "message": "Geocities used to give average people the ability to make websites for free.  Sure, it ended up being poorly maintained and often ugly, but it that was a long time ago.", "group_id": 95, "id": 303220}, {"user_id": 7380, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299665453.5004079, "message": "true", "group_id": 95, "id": 303347}, {"user_id": 19798, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299667566.7087929, "user_id": 7380}, {"date_created": 1299788016.687953, "user_id": 1661}], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299664815.9193511, "message": "http://about.me/ & http://flavors.me/ may be somewhat in that direction.", "group_id": 95, "id": 303254}, {"user_id": 19798, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299665003.3133931, "message": "He could make it a blog post on tumblr or image on flickr.", "group_id": 95, "id": 303291}, {"user_id": 19798, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299665285.5699971, "message": "I'm not a fan, but did you try WordPress pages?", "group_id": 95, "id": 303325}, {"user_id": 19798, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299667580.653161, "user_id": 7380}], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299665820.3693199, "message": "I'd say try to find a niche that would use this. And make it as easy as possible for them to.", "group_id": 95, "id": 303420}, {"user_id": 7380, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299665851.8906169, "message": "ok, that's what we were thinking", "group_id": 95, "id": 303427}, {"user_id": 19798, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299665405.351068, "message": "I've seen some people use http://www.squarespace.com", "group_id": 95, "id": 303342}, {"user_id": 7380, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299665032.3115859, "message": "Of course, but they aren't made for that.", "group_id": 95, "id": 303299}, {"user_id": 7380, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299665104.7021289, "message": "You can't fit every website into the blog format.  I've been focussing a lot on projects recently; like, a research project would have a website with a few unique pages.  But a blog just stresses the most current news, which often isn't that important for stuff that's been done completely.", "group_id": 95, "id": 303307}, {"user_id": 7380, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299664566.020262, "message": "I'm wondering if there are any similar websites that are popular right now.  I know there are general website-template making sites, but most don't seem as easy.  There are blogs, but not all websites are blogs.", "group_id": 95, "id": 303228}, {"user_id": 19798, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299664734.1287391, "message": "I think we do, but it'll need to be simpler and beautiful to wean people off facebook.", "group_id": 95, "id": 303247}, {"user_id": 7380, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299666027.8197601, "message": "Good point.  We were considering doing so, as soon as a few well done implementations were made.", "group_id": 95, "id": 303473}, {"user_id": 7380, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299664875.821692, "message": "I've thought about those two, but they are still splash pages,  My science teacher can't show an experiment up there.", "group_id": 95, "id": 303268}, {"user_id": 7380, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299665335.4043789, "message": "no, I never experimented much with wordpress", "group_id": 95, "id": 303331}, {"user_id": 7380, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299665748.272002, "message": "pretty much, from what I read on Wikipedia", "group_id": 95, "id": 303406}, {"user_id": 7380, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299665870.1083059, "message": "aiming it specifically at hardware hackers, because they really need a project database", "group_id": 95, "id": 303433}, {"user_id": 19798, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299667578.549011, "user_id": 7380}], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299665965.1440339, "message": "At some point, highlight really well done implementations like flavors.me so people can quickly see the potential.", "group_id": 95, "id": 303458}, {"user_id": 7380, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299664981.49998, "message": "I was asking the question because I've been creating a website but we've had some trouble figuring out what direction to really take it in first.  We just knew it seemed pretty useful.  Then recently I thought more about Geocities, looked it up, and was impressed.  It's always talked down upon now but the idea was pretty useful.", "group_id": 95, "id": 303288}, {"user_id": 7380, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299665364.255641, "message": "I know it's easy, but I've always thought of it as a more complex platform, somewhere between coding the website and a simple blog", "group_id": 95, "id": 303337}, {"user_id": 7380, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299665366.622484, "message": "I'll check it out", "group_id": 95, "id": 303339}, {"user_id": 7380, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299665434.499212, "message": "$12 per month?  It does look nice though", "group_id": 95, "id": 303345}, {"user_id": 7380, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299665494.04462, "message": "We're still working on it, but here is what I was working on to create pages specifically for projects", "group_id": 95, "id": 303353}, {"user_id": 7380, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299665495.830591, "message": "http://holono.com/projects/1", "group_id": 95, "id": 303354}, {"user_id": 7380, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299665523.767616, "message": "just trying to think how we should focus on it, if we should develop it torwards being a geocities", "group_id": 95, "id": 303362}, {"user_id": 19798, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299665444.648514, "message": "And apple has iweb.", "group_id": 95, "id": 303346}, {"user_id": 19798, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299665637.5303421, "message": "I'm not sure, but I'm guessing geocities failed because it wasn't profitable being ad supported?", "group_id": 95, "id": 303392}, {"user_id": 7380, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299665826.107163, "message": "From what I remember hearing, it was also a pretty ugly website.  Users made pages kind of similar to Myspace", "group_id": 95, "id": 303421}, {"user_id": 7380, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299665762.8398499, "message": "Yahoo bought it and made a lot of users angry", "group_id": 95, "id": 303408}, {"user_id": 8668, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299667495.1036379, "message": "What about Google Sites?", "group_id": 95, "id": 303597}, {"user_id": 19798, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299665773.382587, "message": "Yahoo does that.", "group_id": 95, "id": 303409}, {"user_id": 7380, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299667593.730243, "message": "Any decent free ones?", "group_id": 95, "id": 303608}, {"user_id": 7380, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299667821.300437, "message": "I'm trying it now.  The templates are surprisingly ugly, but the website is definitely free.  Editing is easy.", "group_id": 95, "id": 303627}, {"user_id": 6643, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299667582.752177, "user_id": 7380}], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299667498.8975639, "message": "virb, squarespace, all those .me sites", "group_id": 95, "id": 303599}, {"user_id": 7380, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299667714.3143041, "message": "@ZoFreX You're right, I haven't checked out Google Sites.   Honestly I didn't know it existed.", "group_id": 95, "id": 303619}, {"user_id": 8668, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299668252.7809379, "message": "I've been using it to keep notes on bits and bobs, it's ok... not great but ok. The bolt-on functionality for more dynamic sites looks interesting.", "group_id": 95, "id": 303672}, {"user_id": 15929, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299688081.808943, "message": "agreed with the earlier comment... now we have wordpress and tumblr. and honestly, i think wordpress.com is the new geocities... free option available, your own design, pages and blogs / news...", "group_id": 95, "id": 306563}, {"user_id": 7999, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299689871.5920539, "message": "Used to work at Webs.com", "group_id": 95, "id": 306718}, {"user_id": 15929, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299688089.6675749, "message": "bonus: http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/", "group_id": 95, "id": 306564}, {"user_id": 7999, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299689876.673414, "message": "basically geocities 2.0", "group_id": 95, "id": 306719}, {"user_id": 4935, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299690569.013931, "message": "yes! collages are what we need.", "group_id": 95, "id": 306802}, {"user_id": 9018, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299692473.95625, "message": "@ogooen  yeh but what features do you \"think\" geocities had that isnt already available on wordpress.com ?", "group_id": 95, "id": 307084}, {"user_id": 9018, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299692427.8514509, "message": "wordpress.com is simple enough.", "group_id": 95, "id": 307076}, {"user_id": 45, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299700194.4515071, "message": "theres also quite a few \"hosting\" places that provide free service if you are small like heroku and amazon web services, though they lack the wysiwyg website creation of geocities", "group_id": 95, "id": 307749}, {"user_id": 354, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299710508.531527, "message": "Surprised this hasn't been mentioned, but Squidoo.com strikes me as the obvious choice here. I've made a ton of pages on Squidoo that it wouldn't really be feasible for me to have created in any other medium.", "group_id": 95, "id": 309100}, {"user_id": 3030, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11664, "date_created": 1299710611.1579931, "message": "http://weebly.com", "group_id": 95, "id": 309110}]