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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 eru »

ecshafer wrote: post #30
danpalmer wrote: post #8

It's an interesting idea, but if it's only open at a convenient time for a particular group, it's going to lack diverse and worldwide perspectives, and those are important for building a welcoming ecosystem. I doubt giving each timezone its own 3 hours would work, but perhaps rotating the 3 hours each day so that it's anchored on a different timezone would encourage that diversity of content and perhaps even encourag…

> It's an interesting idea, but if it's only open at a convenient time for a particular group, it's going to lack diverse and worldwide perspectives, and those are important for building a welcoming ecosystem. This sounds like a nice sentiment, but I don't think this is strictly true. I would go as far as to say that it is largely untrue. Diverse and worldwide perspectives may damage building a welcoming ecosystem. W…

What's so objectionable about Nairaland to silicon valley?

I had a quick look at https://www.nairaland.com/ and nothing immediately sprang out.

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

#42

Post by danpalmer »

ecshafer wrote: post #30
danpalmer wrote: post #8

It's an interesting idea, but if it's only open at a convenient time for a particular group, it's going to lack diverse and worldwide perspectives, and those are important for building a welcoming ecosystem. I doubt giving each timezone its own 3 hours would work, but perhaps rotating the 3 hours each day so that it's anchored on a different timezone would encourage that diversity of content and perhaps even encourag…

> It's an interesting idea, but if it's only open at a convenient time for a particular group, it's going to lack diverse and worldwide perspectives, and those are important for building a welcoming ecosystem. This sounds like a nice sentiment, but I don't think this is strictly true. I would go as far as to say that it is largely untrue. Diverse and worldwide perspectives may damage building a welcoming ecosystem. W…

> That said, if you've had success with it in a friend group, perhaps that suggests it's a nice mechanism for a group chat app, rather than for a public social media site?

It depends on whether you consider WhatsApp to be social media (is iMessage social media? is one-to-one SMS social media?). I think it's different enough to what the author is attempting here to be considered differently.

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

#44

Post by wiseStab »

mklyons wrote: post #24
btbuildem wrote: post #23

Interesting idea! BTW, it shows now: > seven39 is currently closed > Opens in -4h -3m I think the negative numbers might be a bug?

Ah, just fixed this! Should say 20h now. It was an issue yesterday but I just let Cursor write something without checking.

There still an issue, it is showing me 'Opens in 35h 8m'

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

#45

Post by jjulius »

eru wrote: post #38
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.

This sucks for anyone in a different timezone.

Depends entirely upon the issue and the urgency. Hell, I'd wager we could all use a bit more patience and a bit less of everything being so instantaneous.

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

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Post by mklyons »

magicmicah85 wrote: post #12

I had this idea before and thought it’s too silly but as a social experiment this could become a hit. Implement rate limiting asap though. :)

haha I'm with you on the too silly side of it, but I have some time to run the experiment and see where I can go with it.

Yes, was not expecting it to hit as much of an audience as it did at the end there. Definitely need some mechanisms to stop the spam it saw at the end.

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

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Post by malfist »

eru wrote: post #41
ecshafer wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It's an interesting idea, but if it's only open at a convenient time for a particular group, it's going to lack diverse and worldwide perspectives, and those are important for building a welcoming ecosystem. This sounds like a nice sentiment, but I don't think this is strictly true. I would go as far as to say that it is largely untrue. Diverse and worldwide perspectives may damage building a welcoming ecosystem. W…

What's so objectionable about Nairaland to silicon valley? I had a quick look at https://www.nairaland.com/ and nothing immediately sprang out.

Not enough crypto scams for one

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

#48

Post by jader201 »

eru wrote: post #38
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.

This sucks for anyone in a different timezone.

This feels more like a feature, not a bug.

Local communities all operate in the same time zone. No reason small online communities couldn’t operate in the same time zone, allowing each time zone to have their own separate communities.

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

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Post by tomcam »

danpalmer wrote: post #8

It's an interesting idea, but if it's only open at a convenient time for a particular group, it's going to lack diverse and worldwide perspectives, and those are important for building a welcoming ecosystem. I doubt giving each timezone its own 3 hours would work, but perhaps rotating the 3 hours each day so that it's anchored on a different timezone would encourage that diversity of content and perhaps even encourag…

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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