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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

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Post by diggan »

sschueller wrote: post #241
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?

Or, have N available 3 hour windows, and if you've interacted (viewed the website/posted) in any way with the website during one of those periods, you cannot use the other periods for that day.

So basically the same idea, but letting the decision be more dynamic.

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

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Post by sph »

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 :)

The sibling comments are a perfect demonstration why projects tend to balloon in complexity and ever-increasing requirements just to deal with rare corner cases.

YAGNI. A niche tool whose selling feature is time-restricted usage shouldn't have to account for weirdos that miss the point of it and cheat with their clock.

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

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Post by jug »

duxup wrote: post #3

When I lost my job the local unemployment office website would “close” outside of real world office hours. I thought that was annoying but also amusing. I do really like this idea. If anything I want more limited, but also more genuine social media.

I know a bank in Sweden that does _not_ do this and apparently runs various batch jobs at something like 1-3 am. So, one night I made a transaction to it and it looked just fine in the app, then it was mysteriously gone in the morning! On the receiving side; my cash had still been withdrawn! I called the support and we eventually realized that no, you shouldn't do transfers at 2 am on a Saturday because it's likely to fail and then we have to wait for the weekend to be over for them to reappear. I was like... "Alright, thanks. But maybe you should close your app these hours..."

The software engineer within me shudders at the thought of running batch jobs in production while there are ongoing transactions, and where conflicts can and are fully expected to happen.

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

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Post by mattl »

Shawnj2 wrote: post #131
mattl wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Night workers or shift workers would have a different take on it. They’d be the ones posting in your area maybe?

I mean night workers also don’t get to do other traditional evening events like go to a concert or bar so this doesn’t bother me. Night workers in nearby time zones would be able to use it either before or after their shift depending on their location

Some places have bars that open at 7am for people coming off the night shift.

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Post by CobaltFire »

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…

With a few differences this is a well established type of site in Japan.

I've mentioned it before, but my wife posts about our life there. People can follow you, but there is no feedback aside from you seeing how many people read your post and how many followers you have. There are no recommendations; you have to organically check out the people who read your article to see if you like their writing (if they have any), or add people from an out of band source. Content is as ephemeral as you make it. It's very common for people to only leave a post up for a day or two, but it's up to the author.

If you are interested it's called ameba (www.ameba.co.jp). It's not the only one like this, just the one my wife uses.

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Post by qwertox »

This really did put a smile on my face. Though my first thought was the timezone issue.

Maybe have a user register to a timezone which can be changed twice a month or so (for travel) and that will be the time window when that person can enter? Then again, there are so may ways to get around this.

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Post by falcor84 »

This might be an appropriate time to recommend Cory Doctorow's "Eastern Standard Tribe", which is set in a world where people are separated into subcultures based on the time of day they're most active at, regardless of geographical location.

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

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Post by jbd0 »

greg_V wrote: post #238
leke wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Or different instances of the site on the same server, serving different locales. Only one instance would be running at a time.
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