Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderWinamp skins make me miss the fun of software circa 2000. The sun was bright and the possibility space wide open. A piece of software would come out, make huge strides in enabling a new use case effectively, leave the door open for people to make it theirs - and boy did they ever! In the last 20 years how have software music players changed? The files come from a subscription service easier to use and with much better metadata…
A nice trip down memory lane. Older HN readers (like myself) will surely recognize and remember many of these skins, and we all know what comes after skins… MilkDrop :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MilkDrop
Note these skins aren't just images, but a fully interactive and functional web version of winamp. You can even open and play files off your computer. I didn't realize that until I clicked a button by accident, although in retrospect the domain name should have been a clue.
A "level up" moment in my life was freshman year when a roommate pointed me to DI.fm to explore electronic music streams. The default client to load the stream at the best bitrate was Winamp, which opened me to an entire world of 1. the music I was looking for before Pandora/Spotify/etc existed, and 2. skinnable, user-friendly software. Those were good times.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 978
- Total comments
- 329
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-09-03 | Winamp Skin Museum | refresher | 29 | 4 |
| 2020-09-04 | Winamp Skin Museum | oftenwrong | 12 | 3 |
| 2020-09-04 | Winamp Skin MuseumFirst breakout · Best thread | 0-_-0 | 694 | 264 |
| 2022-01-24 | Winamp Skin Museum (Interactive) | lord_sudo | 183 | 46 |
| 2023-05-16 | Winamp Skin Museum | mariuz | 5 | 2 |
| 2024-06-04 | Winamp Skin Museum | panki27 | 4 | 3 |
| 2024-07-03 | Interactive and functional museum of classic WinAmp skins | colinprince | 3 | 1 |
| 2024-07-15 | Winamp Skin MuseumLatest 20+ point return | vladde | 42 | 6 |
| 2024-07-16 | Winamp Skin Museum | tontonius | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-12-01 | Webamp Skins | vednig | 3 | 0 |