Why should I put my website to sleep?
nightnight.xn--q9jyb4c
nightnight.xn--q9jyb4c
I like the clean margins and typography there.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/find/HelpCenter/StoreInfo.jsp
That's a lot more than any other business I can think of, but it might not be a majority depending on how you count:
(e.g., https://www.irs.gov/payments/view-your-tax-account see the "Hours of availability" section)
What makes you ask this question? Is it privilege? Ignorance?
We aren't talking about a silly pet project. We're talking about important government websites that need to be available to every citizen of the US, regardless of their work schedules and obligations. Artificially restricting the hours is insane.
Updates make some sense, but most situations I see things of that sort it's "X may be down for maintenance during these hours", which it usually isn't most of the time in reality.
(Click/tap the cup in the lower right corner if you visit outside opening hours) :-)
There is one.
Great take on user interaction and design.
If someone feels this idea seem far-fetched, think about how applications or sites make you feel when it belittles you for mistakes made in an input, dropp all your progress because you followed the misplaced button, or use the ‘cute but sad animated animal mascot’-dark pattern when you want to cancel an account.
document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', '<div class="nightnight">…</div>');
I have more remarks I could make, but I’ll leave it at that one. It’s the most interesting.
In other words, this function would break websites for me, the demo thinks it's night even though I haven't even had dinner yet.
I want to disable Timezone and System Theme anti-fingerprinting but FF gives no option.
Each time?
In an almost...fingerprintly unique fashion?
IOS, Android, and at least Macos have the ability to help users restrict the time they spend on an application, but doing so on the web is not as simple. In chrome I'm using "Intention" which is a nice extension that does something similar but for only the sites I've added to a list.
As long as the site has a way to allow me to still browse the site or even give me 15m more or something and then fade to black again I'd welcome this from many sites.
It's good in theory, but thankfully lacks the contextual information it would need to be appropriately enabled for a given user's sleep schedule.
We're already dealing with information-density loss and the Fisher-Pricification of the GUI, and maybe this is the next step in overwrought 'we know what you want to do better than you'.
I have no ire for the creator of this. But respect boundaries, people. You are not your user's parents.
This page which uses device time doesn't work well for me because I use UTC as my device time regardless of where I am in the world.
IP geolocation isn't a good idea either because I often access pages through a VPN in another timezone.
In short, nice thought but no thanks.
Also, great way to get your page downranked if a search engine comes prowling around your website at night.
I tried timezones and DST for a while and hated it, and decided to do away with it.
Only if you have some advanced accessibility features that lets me use the site without my arms, which are now completely limp.
Take Hacker News, for example. This is not a site that maliciously steals attention for the gain of the owners. It still has the capacity to be a solid time sink. If the admins felt so inclined (and I'm very much not insisting they should), they could say "this could cause harm. Maybe we mitigate that harm by putting an extra barrier?"
And they actually do! Check out "noprocrast". Admittedly this is opt-in instead of opt-out, but websites (and even businesses in general) can sometimes take into account the wellbeing of customers over what measure of "efficiency" they may have.
It’s not quite the same as when Mommy tucks me into bed and turns the lights off, but I still find it helpful.
Semi-related – I have had so many frustrating experiences with government websites which only operate during business hours.
Don't make assumptions about your users. Maybe it's important to them. Maybe they have insomnia. Maybe they are staying up late. Maybe they work early/late in concert with someone elsewhere in the world. Maybe they're sleep schedule is different from yours
Or maybe they just work the night shift.
Don't think how something does not work, how it will be broken from the get go. Don't come up with negative use cases - its easy.
Do the opposite, its much. much harder. But as the result you can arrive at new ideas (be it business or art). After and only then you can work on workaround for the negatives.
This policy is only workable if your country uses a little-used language and takes up only a single timezone.
Dumb idea. Unnecessary complexity in a website.
IP geolocation isn't a good idea either because I often access pages through a VPN in another timezone.
In short, nice thought but no thanks.
So many assumptions. It reminds me of my ethnic mother's command, "I'm cold. Go and put a jumper on."
[1] https://www.wykop.pl/wpis/34034367/wchodze-na-strone-cejrows...
[2] https://buzz.gazeta.pl/buzz/7,156947,11419434,zakupy-w-niedz...
The developer seems to be called Masamichi Souzou (正道想像) but doesn’t seem to have any connection to Japan? Is there something I’ve missed? Just seems odd to me.
Fetishization: "This burrito is so amazing I'm going to start using a Cholo accent, drive a low rider, do up my apartment like the inside of an Azteca, and rename my business to some obscure Spanish phrase"
http://domainincite.com/18035-why-you-cant-register-emojis-i...
Emojis are something else though.