What happened to SpyMac?
I can remember a few years ago when SpyMac was all the rage. It was a very up-and-coming Mac community that tried to do everything and with style. Now it seems like a social media crash site.
I guess classic SpyMac is a better representation of what it use to be. It was a huge Mac community with pretty good web hosting options, free email with tons of space and a decent forum community. It seemed to have a lot of drive, dedicated people and a large user base.
Now, when you visit the SpyMac homepage, the only decent looking aspect is the logo. The rest of the site has gone to crap.
It’s now all focused around some money making, “you wanna be a star” scheme. It seems that you can upload your videos and pictures in order to win cash and prizes.
I guess SpyMac is just a blast from the past. A Mac community that couldn’t say above the water and has since sold out to other interests. No longer is it a community of style and Mac enthusiasts, but rather a social dumping ground. I guess there’s a reason I forgot all about it.
Heh, yeah - I just visited SpyMac today after over a year of absence, and if it wasn’t for the logo I would’ve thought I was visiting another site entirely. It’s a shame that something as aspiring as SpyMac would turn out like this.
- Johannes February 19th, 2008 at 3:22 am
Safari 523.15 - Mac OS X
Holy shit, I visited Spymac after a pair of years. Almost cried. What have they done?? I first thought it had been hacked or something, but no, it was for real.
R.I.P., Spymac.
- The Havoc February 27th, 2008 at 4:33 am
Safari 523.15 - Mac OS X
yea, I just logged in after years of absence. I thought they’d become THAT much cooler cause of all the developments in the apple world. when their homepage loaded, I checked my address, checked again, maybe there was a hyphen or it was a .net. Wrong.
I’ve crashed into a brick wall a few miles thick called reality.
- Kiran July 16th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Windows Vista
I know the feeling. I’ve been using WIndows my entire life, a loyal fan if you will. But Spymac was a lovely community, that nearly had me going to the Mac, just for that.
Too bad they had to turn into [i]this[/i]. Any details on exactly what happened?
- Craig August 3rd, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 - Windows Vista
Once a very active member of the Spymac community many moons ago, I remember thinking right about the time they released “Club” and “Wheel” privys, that the site was starting to become less focused on membership and interaction with fellow Mac advocates as a whole- and instead would likely end up as some way for the owners to turn their user base into a cash-cow. The following “revisions” to the site did nothing to improve matters - glitches, problems, poor design, etc. ad nausium.
Haven’t been there in probably 2 years or so. Although my account is still considered “active” there - after landing on the current homepage, I wouldn’t visit again.
Indeed, it’s turned into one horrid mess - ugly as sin, and it’s too bad that what was once such a beautiful happy little place in its infancy has grown up into just another internet attention-Wh* Ah, you know what I mean.
Granted, you can still view *cough* “Spymac Classic” - but it’s a mere shadow of its former self.
Most of us ran away from the carnage quite some time ago. Proof enough, if you forget what made you in the first place - you’re headed down a road to mediocracy.
Now it’s some Multi-media outhouse with a shameless “We’ll make YOU a star!” plug of a website, that does nothing well, and completely killed all the funny and comradeship that keep us “old timers” coming back.
Good Jorb, Geniuses.
- DigiCat August 8th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 - Mac OS X