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Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening

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Post by Etheryte »

Tepix wrote: post #224

As a european user, i think you should use the IP address of the user to determin the time zone and have an opening time for every time zone!

For the love of all that's holy, never ever ever use the user's IP address to determine their locale, language preferences or anything similar. It works for the majority of the users and is an absolute nightmare for the rest. Can't even begin to count the times a site has thought I'm from some random country and then switched languages, leaving me to look for the language picker that's hidden somewhere in the page footer. Don't do that.

Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening

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Post by lutoma »

paavope wrote: post #214
Pedro_Ribeiro wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you're just describing BeReal, which went viral but kind of died out.

At least in my clique in Finland, BeReal is alive and kicking. Definitely nothing like Instagram in terms of popularity, but quite active

My German circle of friends is also still very active on BeReal.

Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening

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Post by unsupp0rted »

josephg wrote: post #139
simonkagedal wrote: post #118

I 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…

This happens on Reddit- you'll make a comment that makes sense to Europeans or Asians, and it gets n upvotes. Then America wakes up and all of a sudden it gets n downvotes.

It's especially interesting in local expat communities: in Asia local time, you'll make a comment that is the ground truth and it gets n upvotes from locals and other foreigners in-country. But then the children of immigrants in America who are associated with that country wake up, and suddenly 8 hours later you're a monster.

Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening

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Post by brap »

I've actually been thinking about this concept for a while now! I miss the old days when social networking was actually social and was wondering if placing restrictions like this one can actually make it fun again.

Some other restrictions I think can work:

* No more than 1 post per day

* No more than 500 friends

* No followers

* No public posts

* No posting links

* No commercial pages

Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening

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Post by hiergiltdiestfu »

josephg wrote: post #139
simonkagedal wrote: post #118

I 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…

I can see the addicts rewinding their clocks already :)

Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening

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Post by greg_V »

leke wrote: post #218
simonkagedal wrote: post #118

I 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…

I think there could be different sites for different continents like https://www.seven39.eu

you could have the same site, but running different servers to serve different timezones / locales. kind of like old-school video game servers

Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening

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Post by m_mueller »

hiergiltdiestfu wrote: post #236
josephg wrote: post #139

Earlier 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…

I can see the addicts rewinding their clocks already :)

are you a frontend engineer? cause I'd hope the time checking happens on the server ;-)

Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening

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Post by phowat »

m_mueller wrote: post #239
hiergiltdiestfu wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can see the addicts rewinding their clocks already :)

are you a frontend engineer? cause I'd hope the time checking happens on the server ;-)

What about using vpns to connect through different timezones ?
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