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.
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Let me know what you think! It is just based on EST for now, sorry.
...and that was BEFORE the layoffs =/
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.
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.
Expensive long-distance phone calls sucked, but the side-effect was that nearly everybody on a given board was in the same or one-adjacent local calling area. They were strangers behind a screen only to a degree; they were also your neighbors, schoolmates, and coworkers. If someone needed something, someone else could bike or drive over and help. We had parties, we had picnics, we organized camping weekends. They didn't stay strangers for long.
Yes the global internet was big and shiny and it let you talk to anyone anywhere. So far away that they might in fact be a dog, and you'd never know. But for all we gained, we lost that sense of local connection, and I didn't appreciate that aspect until it was gone.
Maybe if your dad posts something on a website that is only opened at 3am in your own time zone, it’s that their post is not intended for you.
I can’t access op’s website because of my location and I have no fomo at all : I’m just not the target. It’s ok. I still find the idea to be funny.
But this social media actually reminded me of old phone line BBS. I believe life was better when we had to wait for our enjoyment, and even stand in line for it.
I don’t share this thread’s ideas about making it accessible for everyone. I think people are too fixated on scale and inclusion.
It’s absolutely fine to work for three evening hours in a fixed timezone. Every timezone has enough people to not meet every one of them in a lifetime.
If someone wants this in their timezone, they can just llm-php it into existence. Or ask OP about sharing source codes.
It is probably easier to just close it down to avoid handling all the angry phone calls if it would happen to have an issue during the break.
You can also add Arizona to the list, but for only part of the year, as Arizona and the Hopi nation do not follow daylight savings time, but the Navajo nation, which fully surrounds the Hopi, does