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Re: Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence

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Post by CRConrad » Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 12:23 PM UTC

mro_name wrote: post #187

godot wrote: post #179

The idea/term of "Outbox" really reminds me of email of the old days (in the 90s) where you have a desktop email client (e.g. Eudora, or Internet Mail and News, or even earlier versions of Outlook Express) that don't do auto-sends, and only connect to your POP3/SMTP servers when you click Send and Receive. This was probably due to internet being on dial-up and being billed by the minutes was common so users limited t…

your nick hints you fancy waiting. I like that. But humans are herd animals after all and long to keep in touch with the herd. All the time. Like the borg. Even more so, if addiction is exploitable. You hear me, facebok. Indeed 1x day may be much healthier, but prbly too adult to catch.

> your nick hints you fancy waiting.

If the GP is Godot, doesn't that hint they fancy keeping others waiting? ;-)

Re: Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence

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Post by tkok89 » Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 1:05 PM UTC

hyperpallium2 wrote: post #182

This concept for a forum could be interesting. I sometimes write thoughtful replies to HN submissions many hours later, after ruminating, but HN has moved on to the next new thing. (It is a "news" site after all).

I think this could be an interesting idea for news sites especially. It would be less addictive and I could use a specific time of a day to spend on news platform instead of checking it ever so often.

I already use HN with a point limit of 250 so it doesn't update so often. What would be the easiest way to implement Pony messenger philosophy into it and only see a front page that updates once a day?

I know that this sounds a lot like an ancient technology called a newspaper :)

Re: Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence

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Post by pacmanche » Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 11:23 PM UTC

I love the idea.

Small thing that irks me. The app icon looks too much like a unicorn. A stocky little Pony would be so much nicer and true to the name.

Re: Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence

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Post by m9731526 » Mon, Nov 22, 2021, 5:43 AM UTC

There is a social app of similar idea called Slowly.

The time cost for "letters" to be delivered depends on the distance between personal selected location.

Re: Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence

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Post by darkwater » Mon, Nov 22, 2021, 3:03 PM UTC

sigg3 wrote: post #233

darkwater wrote: post #231

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This was probably due to internet being on dial-up and being billed by the minutes was common so users limited their internet time (e.g. disconnect from internet if writing a long email response, etc.). You can remove the "probably", it was exactly for that. Most often then not you would write offline, send the email (which would go in the "outbox") and then later on you would eventually connect to the Internet and…

Because hitting that send and receive could prompt a five minute wait, essentially blocking other uses of the OS.

Mmmh I kept using the OS when Sylpheed was sending/receiving emails, or Outlook Express when I was using Windows.