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Aside from being instructed to sleep, which is a little juvenile, there’s something charming about the idea of a website being “closed” for the day. It has the
by jorgesborges 5y ago
Aside from being instructed to sleep, which is a little juvenile, there’s something charming about the idea of a website being “closed” for the day. It has the feel of a living, dynamic thing. Definitely not suitable for all types of websites but it’s a neat idea for personal a page. I don’t think I’d ever use a third-party to implement something like this either.
I like the clean margins and typography there.
- simon1573 5y agoUp until recently the Swedish tax office only permitted you to login during extended office hours.
- 542458 5y agoThe B&H photo video website won’t accept orders or payments during Shabbat and most Jewish holidays (except for Hanukkah).
- schoen 5y agoIt looks like they only close for seven Jewish holidays (Purim, Passover, Shavuot, Tisha B'Av, Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, and Succot) https://www.bhphotovideo.com/find/HelpCenter/StoreInfo.jsp 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: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_holidays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_holidays
- uyt 5y agoA lot of government websites are Monday to Friday only. I like to joke that they don't even have one 9 of availability. (e.g., https://www.irs.gov/payments/view-your-tax-account https://www.irs.gov/payments/view-your-tax-account see the "Hours of availability" section)
- viraptor 5y agoYou scared me with the Mon-Fri, but actually irs is mon (morning)--sat (night) and sun (morning)--mon (unless maintenance happens). Which sounds fairly reasonable.
- Zak 5y agoAre you aware of a justification for this?
- amerine 5y agoWhy does everything need to be 24/7?
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- yupper32 5y agoI'm nearly speechless reading these replies. 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.
- Zak 5y agoWhy shouldn't it be? It's a website; making it not operate 24/7 takes active effort and does not have any obvious benefit.
- claviska 5y agoMost likely updates and batch processes.
- Zak 5y agoI'm still confused. I'm assuming a web frontend to a batch process enqueues things until it's time to run that process. Why can't it enqueue things 24/7? 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.
- jetpackjoe 5y agoB&H is a Jewish electronics store here in NY. From sundown Friday until sundown Saturday you can't place any orders on their site, (though you can still window shop). https://www.bhphotovideo.com https://www.bhphotovideo.com
- unicornporn 5y agoAnd here's my most awesome example: https://gossips.cafe/ https://gossips.cafe/ (Click/tap the cup in the lower right corner if you visit outside opening hours) :-)
- Zababa 5y agoI agree, I'd like it better if it was something like "this website it asleep" while keeping a way to access it. Maybe something like "take a peek", because I wouldn't want to make people feel bad for "waking up" the website.
- Qub3d 5y agoIts open source! Seems like a very simple change, If you are interested I could make a fork. And there is a link to bypass it in the current version, just not with the wording you suggested.
- crooked-v 5y ago> while keeping a way to access it There is one.
- Jiocus 5y ago> I wouldn't want to make people feel bad for "waking up" the website. 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.
- Zababa 5y agoAs some replies pointed, "while keeping a way to access it" should be "while keeping _the_ way to access it".
- duxup 5y agoThe unemployment office website for my state is (or was a few years ago) closed outside business hours.