love it. can you give some insight regarding the "php virus"?

Flat out the best thing that made it to HN for, quite a while. Thank you.

I ran a vaguely similar music discovery service called Albumcorner earlier this year. I got in touch with the guy who did Mixest -- seemed like a really great guy. I got the impression that he wasn't going to relaunch after the attack on the server, though, so it's great to hear he passed the baton. And it looks better than ever, Michelle, nice work!

Congrats on re-launching! Could you tell us a little about the tech? I think some folks would be interested in hearing about the node crawler and maybe a little about how it distinguishes indie music from the rest of the content out there.

I am absolutely loving this. Any chance of more permanent accounts though? Local storage/cookies are something I go through quite often, plus I'd love to be able to go back to songs at a friend's house or party and play some of these.

I was wondering what happened to the old mixest. I had a pretty huge favorites list before it was killed.

PS - your design work looks great (on both versions of mixest as well as your portfolio)

I had emailed you previously when the first incarnation of the site died -- so glad it's making a comeback! (EDIT: Or maybe I had emailed the original authors? Not sure on the timeline I guess.)

Didn't you do this about 2 years ago? I remember people had to submit content to it though, I even offered to help develop but you said you were fine.

The old developers never rebuilt the site after it was hacked, but I offered to take over the project.

Loving it. Thanks a lot for sharing! I always love ideas that keep the randomness alive and don't try telling me what I should find interesting.

Wow, been listening for a couple hours now. nthing the call for a blog post!

this is great. I've discovered songza earlier this year and have been using that. well done man!