Hey, sorry about that. I mistakenly believed that my email template had an unsubscribe button built in. I will make sure that the next one has one. If you want to message me your email directly I can remove you so you don't even receive the next notification that the site is opening back up.

What do you mean you can't sign in though? I will add password resetting soon but I'm curious if you're running into an issue with the login system.

I came back to this post because of this issue.

I want to delete my account—not unsubscribe. It's a cool idea, but only accessible to me between 00:39:00–03:39:00 (UTC-01:00). I'm too old for that! :P

I assume there is a way to delete my account behind the login wall… but I can't log in outside of the "open" hours.

Therefore, I'm stuck: I can't be online during the "open" hours and the login button is disabled and reads "Log in (unavailable)" during the "closed" hours.

I also tried to reply to your email with a data deletion request, but the delivery failed. There is no support email on the homepage, nor a way to message you directly via HN.

Running into this same issue. I tried to send you an email but it bounced. The error was "Your message couldn't be delivered ... because the remote server is misconfigured ... 554 5.7.1 : Relay access denied". Just FYI :)

I mean that I can't sign in during closed hours to manage that account.

That's pretty close to what I'm thinking. If you remove the endless, always-on nature of social media, could it create better content and better experiences? "Better" is subjective of course, so it is hard to have a tight hypothesis.

> could it create better content and better experiences? "Better" is subjective of course, so it is hard to have a tight hypothesis.

Worth thinking about what metrics you think reflects “better” (content, experience). Something that measures quality of engagement. Retention should work.

One thing you’ll be up against is that thoughts don’t keep office hours, but someone might still want to share with their circle. You could consider creating a holding pen for things a user comes up with - they can record it, but it doesn’t flow yet. That also gives cooling off period which I bet could simultaneously give the satisfaction of immediate gratification (writing it down) and quality content (reflect before post).

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...

It was only a matter of time before that happened.

haha I'm with you on the too silly side of it, but I have some time to run the experiment and see where I can go with it.

Yes, was not expecting it to hit as much of an audience as it did at the end there. Definitely need some mechanisms to stop the spam it saw at the end.

Ah, just fixed this! Should say 20h now. It was an issue yesterday but I just let Cursor write something without checking.

I think we’ll be seeing this explanation more and more…

I think there is still an issue. I think it is counting down to the next 7:39 local time. Right now it says opens in 22h 50m for me (I am in mountain time) (this was at 8:49 MST / 10:49 EST)

There still an issue, it is showing me 'Opens in 35h 8m'

My college's class scheduling website also had hours of operation. One of the rumors was that it would stop students from drunkenly dropping all of their classes, but the real truth was that it was based on an old system that needed to process things overnight and they couldn't get funding to modernize it. This was UMD -- it was notorious when I was there for being annoying but still cracks me up.

Thanks! I'm glad you like it. I do think it could have some cool dynamics but that is what I'm testing right now.

Neat app, simple and well done. I wonder if you could allow people to create their own riddles and rank them by difficulty and satisfaction rate with upvotes.

Yiannis is a fantastic professor, probably my favorite during undergrad at Maryland.