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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 freedomben »

conductr wrote: post #245
rvense wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I agree, in fact I think the ephemeral approach incentivizes unwanted behavior. i.e. to me social media needs to become less addictive. If you force someone into a habit that they have to check every day lest they miss something, you get a FOMO-driven reinforcement of habit and/or even addiction.

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

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Post by Miraltar »

0xEF wrote: post #212
Miraltar wrote: post #174

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I think the idea is to bring everyone at the same time more than just restricting uptime

I'm not sure what the goal of that would be and it seems like it would be taxing on the service, if your target audience is global. Asynchronous platforms make sense in a lot of ways, but I am not a strong developer and just speculating from my own experience as a user. What are your thoughts on what the benefits would be to having all users active only during certain hours?

Having real time interactions gives a very different feel, it's a little like entering a local pub with bustling activity I guess. In my university years I used an anonymous social app called jodel that would show recent posts in your area. And it kinda had this special vibe, everyday around 8am someone would post a weather forecast for the day and people would greet each other and this type of stuff. Having everybody on the same timeline makes interactions different. And you can have real-time conversations too, which makes me less prone to endless scrolling and more proactive in my use of the app

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

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Post by freedomben »

rightbyte wrote: post #217
rvense wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Sounds like a early classic blog?

Possibly, although I don't know any classic blogs that deleted their posts after a day or two. That makes a pretty massive difference in how it's used. For example, I wouldn't put much effort into a post that will only be around for a day or two.

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Post by deathanatos »

adolph wrote: post #36

> It is just based on EST for now, sorry. What happens during dailight savings time?

… you know we're in DST right now¹ … right? I still haven't recovered my sleep schedule.

And it appears that it gets the time wrong:

> Current time: 11:56:29 AM EST

It's currently 11:56a EDT, or 10:56a EST.

(¹at least in America. If you're international, well, I guess that's the answer.)

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

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Post by freedomben »

KurSix wrote: post #136
SoftTalker wrote: post #25

Yeah 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.

Until someone inevitably creates the -24/7 premium access- tier.

Gotta have those expanded analytics and some fancy "badges" for your user name to drive engagement. We could become influencers!

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Post by nicce »

furyofantares wrote: post #92

Going perhaps even further in this direction, the 3 hour window could shift by an hour every day. All the other solutions I see to the time zone problem are pushing the idea in the opposite direction, back a little toward normalcy, and have their own problems anyway (eg power users who just run multiple accounts and are the ones doing a lot of posting). A shifting window would be even more "slow internet". Of course…

First we create the problem with modern social media and then we solve it with old-school forums.

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Post by johncoltrane »

josteink wrote: post #220
StefanBatory wrote: post #170

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It was always a small source of joy on Discord to see Americans getting on the server while East Asians would go to sleep, with us Europeans being in the middle. It always feels so cute for some reason I can't explain, but I do love that every time.

You had this on IRC and the good old phpBB forums back in the days too. Definitely remembering the appearance of the "morning crew" looking for whatever recent stuff they had missed out on ;)

s/had/have

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

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Post by nicgrev103 »

I wish someone made a social media site that has no news feed or any feed, like the facebook of old. Only get notifications and updates from actual people who you have friended. I genuinely think this would be popular, it wouldn't drive the engagement that the feeds and algos do but it would be a more wholesome experience the one we all bought into at the dawn of the social network, only for our friends to be swapped out for a constant drip of 'engaging' content.

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

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Post by freedomben »

Etheryte wrote: post #231
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 fo…

Indeed. I'm on Starlink and am constantly running into issues with this. My egress IP changes every so often from Denver to Salt Lake, occasionally Seattle, but even when static seems to be routinely misclassified. Some websites (most frustratingly GOG) will suddenly think I'm in Canada. Most of the time that's fine, but not when buying stuff. It's ludicrous (and has to be illegal) to force me to pay Canadian taxes, international shipping, and incur an exchange rate fee from the banks when I'm livingin in the US and buying a US product from a US company. It's pretty wild that I have to set up a VPN to fix geolocation so it's more accurate. There are also constant annoyances like Chromecasts and sometimes Android pohones randomly showing Seattle or Denver weather, random geo-locked things (like streaming services telling me the show I'm watching is no longer available in my region, even though it is) and others. So yeah, "nightmare" is not a huge exaggeration.

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Post by freedomben »

marxisttemp wrote: post #211
tomcam wrote: post #49

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Why should it have “diverse and worldwide perspectives”? Must a Muslim site be open to all Christians? Must a Japanese site admit me even though I don’t know Japanese? Should a site for Ukrainians be forced to allow Russians? I do think of this as an opportunity for you to create your own site that meets your standards, however.

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What makes you think they are triggered?

As an aside, I'd be very curious to hear your answer to the question. I'm generall very pro-diversity, but I think it's naive to think it's all lollipops and rainbows.

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