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HN is basically social media.
True. And I try to avoid it. Gladly it's not as addictive as others.
I'm not so sure about that ;)
I learn something every time though.
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
#192Great effort. But I will make the obvious point that does not seem very fashionable these days. What if we chose instead to cultivate self-discipline? This project is a technical fix to a human problem, but human problems can also be addressed with human solutions. Is there no value in doing things the time-honored way? Personally, I'm not addicted to social media but I do have a sweet tooth. The classic hack here is…
If you have sweets in front of you and some cognitive dissonance in your head about how you both want and don't want them at the same time, this CPU time could be spent on more interesting things.
If you understand you don't want them given a broader context, then it requires no self-dispcipline - you just don't want them.
But if you can't untangle your contradiction, i.e. if self-discipline is required, why would you want to spare any thought on that?
I understand your point about this resisting temptation being a skill, a muscle that you train, that you want to master and that feels empowering. I'm just pointing out that when truly mastered it is 100% effortless - and when it is 100% effortless it means you either can't have it or understand that you don't want to (which is the same as simply not wanting to).
Otherwise it's a cognitive dissonance, a distraction.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#193If you’re trying to monetize, realize that a feature is not a product.
The product is the network. The restricted window is a feature. I can already achieve this with screen time and leechblock.
But no quibbles if it’s just hobby project.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#194It's a bit like making a rave with headphones instead of soundsystem.
Feels like missing the point of sociality.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#195I 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…
now i want to see a map with all timezones called EST but meaning something else in each one
WDYM? There is exactly one time zone called EST.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#196Yeah I have thought about websites having "business hours" also. So support staff don't have to worry about getting a call or text message at 0200 that something isn't working... just fix it in the morning.
This sucks for anyone in a different timezone.
Good for them that the internet is big.
I don’t share this thread’s ideas about making it accessible for everyone. I think people are too fixated on scale and inclusion.
It’s absolutely fine to work for three evening hours in a fixed timezone. Every timezone has enough people to not meet every one of them in a lifetime.
If someone wants this in their timezone, they can just llm-php it into existence. Or ask OP about sharing source codes.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#197I prefer to set these kind of constraints on my device and for the hours that work for me. This way I can even pick different hours on different days or not pick hours at all and constrain the time, or do something else. Also, social media platforms are already pretty good for async communication.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#198Great 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.
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Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Agreed.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#200I wish someone made social media where everyone gets one post every day. Almost no person on this planet has more than one bit of news to share daily with their extended social network — probably not even the countries' leaders. When accounts share every 10 minutes, it's often spam or some inorganic agenda.
Oversharing in natural social networks is penalized heavily, and for good reason - with too much noise and little signal, people get overwhelmed, fear missing out, and cannot agree on anything. Communication becomes a detriment and a chore to the social group. The social group expects everyone to think before they speak, not just blabber endlessly, which is healthy.
Also, replacing the "Like" button/signal with a "Thanks" signal would be good because it'd be better to build a social network based on what people find helpful rather than on what people approve of. I think this was originally Jack Dorsey's idea, not my own.