That’s fine. Eastern should be the only time zone anyway, all other time zones are just kidding themselves.
Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
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#52"Opens in 35h+" On what planet a day is 35h long?
38h 30m for me, only seven minutes after you posted your comment.
I guess OP is having some hard time with date calculations :D
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#53I'm not sure about the time window, but I am experimenting with an offline once-a-day digest version of Instagram. Might deliver it by email.
> I'm not sure about the time window
To me it just sounds like popping down to the pub for a couple pints. I love the idea.
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#54It'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…
If I’m discussing a local event with people I know, what would diverse and worldwide perspectives add?
I find any “deep” topics to be pretty shallow except on specialist boards that wouldn’t appeal to the layman but nonetheless do vet people before letting them on.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#55It'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…
I kind of like the idea of a regional social media app which literally doesn’t work in other parts of the world. It makes the space a little more special than something trying to reach everyone IMO
At the extreme level of “regional”, that’s Nextdoor.
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#56you should start with 24 hrs a day of runtime, for every 1000 users cut 1 minute off the operation time so that by the time you reach 1 million users, 1000 minutes are off and it runs only 440 minutes a day
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#57Divide the earth in four days and each day in four to give each user 3/2 hours to interactive with the past 6.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> Depends entirely upon the issue and the urgency.
You could delay everything by a few hours or a day between submitting a post and publishing it.
I'm talking about the inconvenience of potentially having to get up at 3am to see what your dad posted.
All that said, I think someone should definitely try this idea out, and people can decide for themselves whether they want to us it.
I also thought that Twitter's character limit was stupid, but Twitter really took off.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The time zone restriction does nothing to keep out people who live far north or south of you, but does keep out people far east or far west.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#60Sounds like a variant of the "BeReal" concept: "Its main feature is a daily notification that encourages users to share photos of themselves with friends in their day-to-day life, given a randomly selected two-minute window every day."