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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 | 1 comments | 11 Mar 25 01:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | 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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Tepix ◴[11 Mar 25 12:01 UTC] No.43331579[source]▶
As a european user, i think you should use the IP address of the user to determin the time zone and have an opening time for every time zone!
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Etheryte ◴[11 Mar 25 12:11 UTC] No.43331650[source]▶
For the love of all that's holy, never ever ever use the user's IP address to determine their locale, language preferences or anything similar. It works for the majority of the users and is an absolute nightmare for the rest. Can't even begin to count the times a site has thought I'm from some random country and then switched languages, leaving me to look for the language picker that's hidden somewhere in the page footer. Don't do that.
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1. 998244353 ◴[11 Mar 25 17:13 UTC] No.43334738[source]▶
I once had to solve a captcha in a foreign language because of that. Wasn't something obvious like motorcycles either, it was something like "click on all hamsters" in a grid full of various rodents.