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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 sschueller »

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…

Why not let the user pick the 3 hour window and not let them change it for another period after it was just changed?

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

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Post by simonkagedal »

croisillon wrote: post #165
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…

now i want to see a map with all timezones called EST but meaning something else in each one

It was a total brain fart though – I know what EST is and I know that my time zone is CET; just had some neurons misfiring!

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

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Post by aaronbasssett »

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 ;-)

Where is the server getting information about the user's timezone from pray tell?

It doesn't matter if it's being checked on the client or the server. If the user controls what your code sees, they can fake it.

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

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Post by simonkagedal »

deadbabe wrote: post #223
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…

You could also just use a different time zone each day.

Yeah. There are many fun experiments one could do. Now I got this idea instead: what if it opened up on 07:39 PM on January 1st, but then the window moved forward 3 minutes and 56.7 seconds each day so that it was back on 07:39 PM a year later. That sounds like it would be extremely useless, but fun.

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Post by conductr »

rvense wrote: post #202
caseyy wrote: post #200

I 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 litt…

I'm actually part of a site like this, just a thing a friend of a friend made: - You can write and edit one post at a time. - This post, in whatever form it has then, gets published at 8 in the morning. - You can only see posts for today. All old content gets deleted. - No comments or feedback is possible. - Only symmetric relationships are possible: you can add someone, but they won't see your posts and you won't se…

As a “never post, but catch up on my feed every month or two” type user the lack of an archive makes this product useless but I realize it’s not for me and wouldn’t complain just saying it’s stated as low touch but kind of requires daily use.

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Post by anamexis »

aaronbasssett wrote: post #243
m_mueller wrote: post #239

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Where is the server getting information about the user's timezone from pray tell? It doesn't matter if it's being checked on the client or the server. If the user controls what your code sees, they can fake it.

The user can choose their time zone when they sign up, and the service can prevent them from changing it (or heavily limit how often it can be changed)

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

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Post by Ylpertnodi »

brap wrote: post #235

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

3 upvotes per day.

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Post by yieldcrv »

caseyy wrote: post #200

I 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 litt…

There are, the founder is on this site

I know people that have used it for years

I forgot the name but its an app that sends you a notification at a random time each day, and it gives you 1 minute of use. If you miss it, you miss it.

In that 1 minute you can take a photo where you are right then, and can use the rest of the minute to browse someone else’s series of photos. Just the 1 person you were connected to that day.

It just shows how people are living.

In real life. I know its changed someone’s trajectory. All of their pictures were in an office cubicle and it pushed them to pursue other things sooner. Retirement in their case, to pursue drum circles and new age things because this was always fulfilling for them, they just kept delaying it beyond the rationality to delay it.

After 3 years of doing this, they send you a book of your memories.

No timelines or “algorithm” aside from whatever selects the person you get to see.

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Post by miroljub »

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 :)

Allow everyone to choose their time windows, but require at least 24 hours span between the two time window changes.
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