Postponed
Postponed is a prototype for a social network that has a different approach to time than other existing networks.
By default, each status update is only displayed one hundred years after it was posted.
Users can speed up the displaying process by spending points but it has to be worth it since the number of points, though renewable, is limited.
It can be tried here : officialdatabase.org/postponed
Users can spend points to make a post arrive sooner : the first point leaves the delay at one hundred years, then each extra point divides it by two.
Two points bring it down to fifty years, ten points to about ten weeks, and for twenty-five points the post shows up after roughly three minutes, which is the closest thing to instant messaging that the site allows.
A user gets thirty points when registering, then one more point every day. Posting always costs at least one point.
You can follow the other users, their posts will appear in your feed once their dates have come.
Until then, the feed only shows that something was posted and when it will become readable.
This means that most of what the site contains at any given moment might be addressed to people who don't use it yet or aren't born yet.
The code is based on one of my earlier projects called facebook.
Github repo can be found here.
This was one of my various attempts to fight the immediate and hierarchized way internet tends to work.
Other attempts can be found here or here or here...