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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 | 4 comments | 11 Mar 25 01:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.623s | 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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danpalmer ◴[11 Mar 25 02:17 UTC] No.43328492[source]▶
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 encourage creating connections across timezones.

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?

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tomcam ◴[11 Mar 25 03:05 UTC] No.43328768[source]▶
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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1. danpalmer ◴[11 Mar 25 03:41 UTC] No.43328944[source]▶
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.

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2. babuloseo ◴[11 Mar 25 04:20 UTC] No.43329120[source]▶
there is reddit for that, I want to go back to an internet thats just primarily NA, if world of warcraft classics success is anythign to stand by or old school runescape, I think its time we did this with our social networks too.
3. bhaney ◴[11 Mar 25 06:11 UTC] No.43329642[source]▶
> Personally, I enjoy reading about world news, hearing about TV shows I might want to watch that aren't in my language.

Then go to any of the sites that already exist for that, and stop acting like any new site needs to function exactly according to your personal preferences in order to be acceptable.

> 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.

You can "want to know what's going on outside" without needing every single website to be globalized. We don't need to completely eradicate local communities in order to be exposed to other cultures. I think an awful lot of people would find your position here to be the "sad" one. I know I do.

4. robertlagrant ◴[11 Mar 25 07:04 UTC] No.43329902[source]▶
> You've immediately assumed that by "diverse perspectives" I mean controversial perspectives.

Where is the controversy in the examples?