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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
#62It'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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Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Sure but Nextdoor is still a huge business trying to reach the widest possible audience of local areas. Something limited by if you’re awake when it’s up is different IMO
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#64Yeah 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.
I recall this occurring with college registration websites ~25 years ago. In retrospect, I suspect it was so students registering online didn't have an advantage over those registering in person (at the time, home internet access was common but nowhere near 100%).
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#65I'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.
do you have a repo or some starting points already? Would love something like that but always found it too annoying to figure out how to scrape it properly. (I’d especially like story summaries.)
This is what does all the work: https://instaloader.github.io/ (not my code)
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#66"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
Lol I am honestly. I just changed it to 7:39pm EST tomorrow but that won't even be right in EST for much longer...
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#67It'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.
You've immediately assumed that by "diverse perspectives" I mean controversial perspectives.
Personally, I enjoy reading about world news, hearing about TV shows I might want to watch that aren't in my language. I enjoy reading cross-language puns and seeing photos of food I don't usually eat. I enjoy seeing people who don't worry about the things I worry about.
If you don't want those things, if you don't want to know what's going on outside, then that's up to you, but I think that's a sad way to live life.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#68I love internet concepts like this. Just silly fun experiments. This one appears to exclude anyone in a relationship in almost every US timezone.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#69Earlier 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.
If you are traveling and need to deal with something that happens at home, too bad. There are plenty of timezones that make it quite difficult to manage, especially if they have phone wait times that exceed 30min.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#70A clever idea. Has anyone tried it?