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

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735 points mklyons | 3 comments | 11 Mar 25 01:05 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

I built this site as a quick test if a time boxed social media experience feels better than an endless one. So far I've just been using it with friends and it feels nice, but it seems like it is time to bring it to a larger audience.

Let me know what you think! It is just based on EST for now, sorry.

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SoftTalker ◴[11 Mar 25 02:44 UTC] No.43328651[source]▶
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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1. ac29 ◴[11 Mar 25 03:36 UTC] No.43328926[source]▶
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%).
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2. bl4ckneon ◴[11 Mar 25 07:05 UTC] No.43329907[source]▶
I had this happen at a local community College but it also was where you would access your grades. Shut down over winter break, was awkward to tell my internship coordinator that I couldn't access the website for 2 weeks to get my grades because the website was closed over break... Fricken crazy (and they where using a pretty popular platform, this was not some home spun system)
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3. qw ◴[11 Mar 25 11:13 UTC] No.43331277[source]▶
My guess is that it was hosted on a physical server on campus, and they didn't want to pay IT to support it during winter break.

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.