Site Is Closed on Sundays

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• Love it. I started a fun side project this weekend to also reduce my screen time: turning articles I bookmark online into a personal printed magazine that I can then read offline [0]. I just printed the first personal edition that I will read on my flight next week, including a few articles I found on HN :)

  [0] https://www.unscroll.ch

  by hubraumhugo
• A well-known Catholic in Poland, he runs his own shop, which is also closed on Sundays.

  https://cejrowski.com/sklep/

  by marcinostefano
• It's their site and they can do whatever they like, but it's pretty silly. If you want to avoid screens, avoid screens. Don't make your addiction my problem
  by procaryote
• "Trump is your president, don't make his problems to mine. If you vote for a shit president then keep him for yourselves and don't let him escape his sandbox."

  Spot the five differences.

  by Towaway69
• I'm reminded of the type of recovering alcoholic who impetuously accuses anybody who they know has consumed alcohol of being slaves to the sauce themselves.
  by GaryBluto
• In India, I remember many government websites that allowed form submission only during office hours.
  by zkmon
• Most non-restaurant stores are closed in Poland on Sundays. At first I found it a bit inconvenient, but as I've lived here longer (going on ten years) I really appreciate it. It's a forced "slow down" day that's society-wide. It also helps push back against the constant desire to inject money and capital into every aspect of life.

  It would never be allowed in the US, but I do think a designated "don't buy stuff" day once a week would be a really good idea, as well.

  by keiferski
• Same in DACH
  by psp99
• Unless you can also send packages there
  by dwedge
• I bet the crowds on Saturdays are something to enjoy.
  by throw-the-towel
• Long before that, a known religious zealot used to close his online store on Sundays and put out a very in-character lecturing note if you tried to visit it anyway.
  by stratocumulus0
• In the Netherlands there are plenty of websites which close on Sunday for religious reasons.

  For example:

  https://www.babypark.nl

  by photonios
• In the US state of New Jersey some counties restrict the sales of tools and hardware (like something you might need to urgently buy for a home repair from Home Depot) on Sundays:

  https://www.google.com/search?&q=new+jersey+blue+laws+tools+...

  As a person from the west coast it is always funny to me to encounter places with "blue laws" for no product sales on Sundays, or "dry counties", primarily in the US south/southeast.

  by walrus01
• The first time I was in Silicon Valley, the most surprising thing was that equivalent of blue laws was every day with how early everything closed.

  Still makes me wonder how anyone gets anything done, OTOH it explains how door dash, uber, etc could happen there - other places had less demand...

  by p_l
• B&H Photo Video is probably the most well known example, they won't accept an order on the sabbath.

  https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=b%26h+sab...

  But the site still functions to browse.

  by walrus01
• off topic but I wonder why client is the first query parameter in that URL. I guess there's some stuff on the search page that changes based on what you are browsing from? they already have the user agent data so I can't imagine it's for marketing data tracking needs
  by asimovDev
• There is also a baby products online store in the Netherlands that for religious reasons is closed on Sunday. You can browse the site but you can't buy anything.

  The page is in Dutch, it explains that they're closed because get believe Sunday is a day for rest: https://www.babypark.nl/zondag/info-bp.html

  by t0mas88
• Honestly, I don’t mind it. Our lives are so commercialized as it is. If I can’t order a new stroller until Monday, I think I will survive.
  by yurishimo
• The biggest camera store in NYC, B&H Photo, similarly closes their website checkout on Saturdays and on all the major Jewish holidays. It's mildly inconvenient, but it has never really stopped me from ordering from them. I think maybe one time it made me order from a competitor.
  by technothrasher
• I happened to want to order something there last Sunday. While digging into it, I notice that their closure seemed to be implemented only on the frontend using JS. By disabling some scripts, I was able to add products to my cart, which normally isn't possible on Sundays.

  In the end, I didn't proceed to place my order on Sunday. It felt a bit disrespectful, and it was already late. (So I ordered half an hour later, which was technically Monday.)

  by jhogervorst
• Same for the SGP, the Dutch fundamentalist Christian party: https://sgp.nl/

  I share few of their values but I quite appreciate this one.

  by skrebbel
• We have similar e-commerce sites in Israel that close on Saturdays for religious reasons.

  As someone living in a relegious country with religious parties in parliament, I see this as a slippery slope.

  It's a way for religious groups to normalize forcing their lifestyle on the rest of society.

  Religious mandates always tend to expand: what starts as "I don't care if you close your site on Sunday" can quickly escalate to "Why are you telling my wife and daughter how they should dress in public?"

  Beware

  by guytv
• That was the reason I bought a lot of stuff at their competitor baby-dump.nl. Until BP bought BD, and instituted the same policy there...

  It's their site, they can do what they want. And as long as there's competition I can even admire them for making a sacrifice for something they believe in.

  This kind of stuff becomes a problem when it starts arguing that others must do this too. If someone argues that all shops must be closed because their religion forbids working on that day, then that's an issue. But as far as I know, the Baby Park people haven't done that. They made a personal moral choice and sacrifice. Good for them.

  by lucumo
• In Israel, many sites are "closed" on Sabbath, unfortunately. This was a recent controversy about this: https://www.ynet.co.il/economy/article/rymwhdedmg (Hebrew)
  by Nurdok
• B&H Photo's website can be browsed on the Sabbath but you can't order anything. The company is owned and operated by observant Orthodox Jewish members of the Satmar Hasidic community.
  by UltraSane
• I told a friend one time, what if there was a web site that had opening hours.

  He said, you can already see the opening hours of all the stores and stuff on Google Maps.

  I said, no, not a website like that. I mean, the website itself is open 9 to 5 Monday through Friday, and outside of that it’s closed.

  My friend looked at me and just said, why?

  Idk, I think it would be neat, I said.

  My friend didn’t get it. This guy gets it.

  by QuantumNomad_
• How does this work with time zones?
  by left-struck
• Plenty of these exist. The biggest I'm aware of is B&H Photo Video.
  by Arainach
• > My friend didn’t get it. This guy gets it.

  They laughed at Einstein, but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

  by throw-the-towel
• > website itself is open 9 to 5 Monday through Friday, and outside of that it’s closed.

  So you want people to read your blog at work because when they are off it's closed?

  by teiferer