Gentle usage limits

[christianbundy]

What's the problem you want solved?

I've noticed that sometimes I spend too much time on social media. I've struggled to kick a Reddit habit for the better part of a decade, and I don't really want to have an unhealthy relationship with a friendly social media app

Is there a solution you'd like to recommend?

I like how Hacker News has a noprocrast mode, although I'm unhappy with the "get back to work" baloney. In your settings you can configure how many minutes you should be allowed to use HN, and if you try to spend time than that in some period then it doesn't let you see anything. Maybe we'd have some mode for a quick bypass instead of being super strict and authoritarian?

What version or commit of Oasis are you using?

latest

[sgwilym]

There was a good discussion about this around two weeks ago on SSB: %4F8Y9jm/uQpr+ZuJackODqJ1Q0k3yDX8yyLXgXM2l3s=.sha256 (err... what is a good way to link to these things?)

Some nice ideas that were brought up:

• Only syncing at predefined intervals (e.g. once each day in the morning)
• A large, highly visible manual toggle to turn syncing on or off (with a counter!)
• Making people more conscious of their own behaviour with a visit counter (e.g. this is the 34th time you've looked at this page today)
• A dedicated 'new stuff' SSB client that would let you eyeball if there's anything new to see without refreshing, scrolling etc. This one's a bit out there as you'd need to sync read state across clients.