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

#291

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…

Defeat the feed

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

#292

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…

Past: Path, Basement.

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

#295

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…

what would It do, that WhatsApp currently doesn't ?

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

#296

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

#297

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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.

It doesn't matter if they fake it. They're only getting one window per 24 hours.

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

#299
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

What's a follower when there are no public posts?

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

#300
reminds me of the "experimental" social media app "Minus" https://minus.social/ that only allows users to make 100 posts. Both cool ideas, but I feel like they're trying to "sell" limitations (max 100 posts, can only use app at XYZ o'clock) when, unfortunately, limitations are antithetical to what people want (to a certain extent) when it comes to expressing themselves online. Clearly some limitations are necessary (character-limits on X posts, video length on Snapchat videos come to mind). This seems, admirably, different in a new way. Hope it catches on!
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