The problem is you're deciding when other people have free time for them.
Maybe people spend time with friends/family in the evening :)
Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
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Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
This sucks for anyone in a different timezone.
This feels more like a feature, not a bug. Local communities all operate in the same time zone. No reason small online communities couldn’t operate in the same time zone, allowing each time zone to have their own separate communities.
> No reason small online communities couldn’t operate in the same time zone
For example, Finland, Romania, Turkey and South Africa are on the same time zone.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#173Interesting idea.
Among my projects, there's a website blocker, and wasting time on social media is really one of the pain points for many people.
I’m curious to see the statistics of your approach over time.
It’s hard to believe that people would initially go on social media with restrictions, but who knows.
Keep updated!
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#174What if we took a note from the BBS & time-share days of network computing and used a credits system rather than being open for specific hours? Users make content, get credits to spent on minutes of platform use whenever they wish, etc.
I think the idea is to bring everyone at the same time more than just restricting uptime
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#175Smart naming
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#176Great idea, but it should be open 24/7 with eight 3-hour windows. One account can only use a single window during the 24-hour period. This will handle the timezone differences.
The better way would be to choose a time slot when you sign up. Then you always socialise within that slot. Allowing you to use any time any day kills the concept.
I think you could also be allowed to modify your “three hour slot” up to 24 hours in advance somehow. That way you can handle travelling and relocation without allowing people to game the system and extend their slot to 6 hours or some other weird thing you didn’t anticipate.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
This feels more like a feature, not a bug. Local communities all operate in the same time zone. No reason small online communities couldn’t operate in the same time zone, allowing each time zone to have their own separate communities.
It's one of the main things I miss about BBSs. I've thought about trying to start a BBS that requires a low ping, using the speed of light to encourage locality. Expensive long-distance phone calls sucked, but the side-effect was that nearly everybody on a given board was in the same or one-adjacent local calling area. They were strangers behind a screen only to a degree; they were also your neighbors, schoolmates, a…
My guess is the locality helped with civility, we wouldn't call anyone offensive names if there's a chance we run into them "IRL".
Then again the drama of Nextdoor communities probably means this is largely dead...
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#178Great idea, but it should be open 24/7 with eight 3-hour windows. One account can only use a single window during the 24-hour period. This will handle the timezone differences.
genius! [edit] I realised as soon as I pressed send that immediately there will be a service that let's you open 8 accounts and seamlessly operate them as a single one.
That can be a paid feature for business accounts
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#179I think it's a really cool idea. I signed up because I had a brain fart and thought that "EST" was "European Standard Time" (I was of course thinking of CET). So yeah, the current window wouldn't work for me, but that's fine. Everything doesn't have to be for everyone. We all live in our bubbles anyway; creating artificial rules could actually be ways of creating new, unexpected interactions. This being said – if you…
> So yeah, the current window wouldn't work for me, but that's fine. Everything doesn't have to be for everyone. We all live in our bubbles anyway; creating artificial rules could actually be ways of creating new, unexpected interactions. I like the idea that something like this could be open for 3 hours in the evening local time. Like, you'd get totally different communities coming on at different times, and having…
like a tavern
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
> So yeah, the current window wouldn't work for me, but that's fine. Everything doesn't have to be for everyone. We all live in our bubbles anyway; creating artificial rules could actually be ways of creating new, unexpected interactions. I like the idea that something like this could be open for 3 hours in the evening local time. Like, you'd get totally different communities coming on at different times, and having…
like a tavern
Or Second Life in 2006...