Ask HN: How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work?

Re:Ask HN: How do you stop reading the internet when you nee... by ars on Thursday November 06, 2008 @04:51AM (#355526)

Try http://8aweek.com/ it's designed for doing that (keeping track of wasted time while browsing and blocking after a while) - but I have to admit I disabled it.

I was also a little concerned about the privacy implications of sending them everything I do, and if you disable that (which you can), many things don't function as well.

Edit: WAIT!

What?? What happened to 8aweek!? Now it's socialbrowse, which so far as I can tell is designed to do exactly the opposite of what 8aweek was going to do (i.e. save your time - now they want to waste it).

Edit2:

8aweek was a ycombinator startup! What happened?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you stop reading the internet when you nee... by ErrantX on Thursday November 06, 2008 @05:25AM (#355544)

That's quite ironic/amusing :D

I remember 8aweek - and I did the same thing (turned it off).

At the end of the day it is too easy to click "sod off let me in anyway" (which is what I do to the anti-procrast feature here :D).

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Re:Ask HN: How do you stop reading the internet when you nee... by thorax on Thursday November 06, 2008 @09:10AM (#355678)

I also loved 8aweek and was sad to see it go away. :(

Now I use LeechBlock which is good (and has some good features) but doesn't feel as smooth: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476

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