Show HN: The Disconnect – a web magazine that forces you offline

déjà vu? last summer someone (not me!) posted my very simple demo of this concept (i called it "offline only"). based on the feedback i got here and other places, i decided to build a full magazine, with the help of a lot of other people.

this isn't another rant about internet addiction. it's an experiment with the current state of the internet and our society. over a dozen writers, poets, and artists contributed to this issue. we hope you like it, or at least find it mildly entertaining.

(on the tech side, it also uses a lot of newer web features, so it will not be kind to older browsers. sorry! there's only so much time in a life)

and if you're interested in the actual mechanics of detecting online / offline connection, look into navigator.onLine and "online" and "offline" events. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigatorOn...

(We also use polling as a backup for browsers that don't support the above features)