The one Discord group I’m in is often most active after midnight, it is the biggest reason I stay up till 2 AM, which is terribke when I will have to start getting up at 6 AM when studying starts. Hexbear and Lemmygrad also become time sinks for me.
So what are recommendations for applications that can block apps and websites?
Leechblock on Firefox is pretty good for websites. Essentially, you set up an amount of time you’re allowed to view a website and timespan for the rule to be active. Lots of possibilities to customize. There’s also one sec or screenzen I think they’re called? They’re apps that don’t block the apps fully, but that make you wait before the app actually opens. Theres studies that show that if you wait for a few seconds before opening the app you’re more likely to just give it up and go to bed instead of mindlessly scrolling.
Bonus video explaining the mechanism behind this problem: https://youtu.be/bNOol5OTasw
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I can’t recommend any because everything I’ve tried no matter how robust I just end up circumventing in the moment that I want to visit a website.
A subset of the realization that technology can never be the main solution to social problems.
Turns out I got adhd and no amount of browser plugins, firewalls or whatever else was ever going to help me study.
Is the situation with your discord group one where you could suggest the group as a whole be active at earlier hours? My own discord group unanimously decided to do this a while ago and it worked out for everyone. But we are much older than you and are close friends who had been keeping young man gamer hours out of habit far longer than anyone ought to.
Another option if you’re comfortable with it is to ask them to give you a nudge to go to bed when they see you up late.
Good luck. I see in your profile that you’ve already considered that you might have adhd. I cannot recommend strongly enough that you seek resolution on this before it might effect your studies. Not being diagnosed earlier, paticularly when I was studying, is truly one of the greatest regrets of my life.
Reading this thread I was thinking the same thing. If I had control over the blocker and I wanted to bypass it I just would. I always see ADHD advice like “Reward yourself with a cookie for completing a task” and my brain goes fuck you I’m going to eat all the cookies and still not do the task.
I used a firefox add-on ages back. But the problem is, if you can install it yourself, you can turn it off yourself too. So I would still visit these sites, except it took me a few extra clicks.
The obvious solution seems like Parental Blocking software. There’s software for Parents to limit their children. I think you could use the same software on yourself.
It depends what kinds of devices you use and have access to. Different platforms = different options.
how do you prefer to get at discord, as well as what alternative options would work. Do you use website, app? For web, what browsers do you use?
what internet connections are available to you. Only if controlling at the device level isn’t the best choice or doesn’t work. But can start with device.
I don’t know about discord, is there anything specific that can be done on there. Can you ask them to block you or is there any bot or script that could assist you.
