Ask HN: Is noprocrast still working for you?

10 points by infotainment 1 week ago | 6 comments
I'm a big fan of the "noprocrast" setting on HN, but lately it seems like it's no longer functioning, allowing for seemingly infinite procrastination.

Anyone else seeing this issue?

  • tomhow 1 week ago
    Dang's been doing a major refactoring of the software (which he finally has time to do now that I'm here), so we're seeing a few little bugs come up. We're aware of this one and it will be resolved as soon as he can get to it.
    • dickfickling 1 week ago
      sounds good, thanks for the response!
    • dang 6 days ago
      Should be fixed now. Sorry all!
      • dickfickling 1 week ago
        I’ve noticed the same thing. Horrible for my productivity. Paging @dang
        • highhedgehog 1 week ago
          ? Wait, what is it?
          • andyjohnson0 1 week ago
            >In my profile, what is noprocrast?

            > It's a way to help you prevent yourself from spending too much time on HN. If you turn it on you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours.

            https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html