Simple Site Closer Script!

[Melooon]

Site Closer Script
I made a very simple script that will allow you to close your site on Mondays (or any other day) like my sites do! 

Update: Please check some of the subsequent posts and pages to get more advanced versions that people have posted that support more than just days.

It's not perfect because it depends on Javascript, so someone can bypass it if they disable JS, but since its mostly a fun feature I don't think that's actually a big deal!

To close your site on Mondays, just create your own closed.html page, then place this code on the HEAD of the page you wanna close (your index.html, or particular pages if you don't wanna close your whole site.) 

Code

<script src="https://melonking.net/scripts/site-closer.js"></script>
<script>
  // sc.closedPage = "closed.html"; // Optional: change the closed page URL
  // sc.closedDays = ["Monday"]; // Optional: change the days to close (default is Monday)
  shutItDown();
</script>

[Lyonid]

  I love this, this is so fun. I will draw a little picture of a closed laboratorium to make everyone on my site take a breather on Fridays. This is the first step towards a great labour union for internet protocols.

[Memory]

Thank melon!    This is gonna make my site feel 100% more personal!... That is if I can revise it before Monday. Been months since I made a "true" update.

[Memory]

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[Yaya]

WOW~! Adding it now! This is so cool!

[clowdywings]

oooh this is really cool, thanks for the code!

[JINSBEK]

Hey, this is pretty cool. I always thought it was cool that Sprayground closed their website on Shabbat, and now we can, too. Haha. @VioletHeaven , take a look at this!
 

[VioletHeaven]

Hey, this is pretty cool. I always thought it was cool that Sprayground closed their website on Shabbat, and now we can, too. Haha. @VioletHeaven , take a look at this!
 

This script is awesome! I'm definitely going to use it to close my site for Shabbat, too! I really want my site to be fun and playful, and to gently remind myself (and others!) to take a break and disconnect. Plus I'll probably have a bunny of the week there, too!

Thank you for showing me this, Jinsbek! 

[Kalka]

So it only "close" the page of the website it is put on or does it "close" the sub domains as well ? Imagine I'm making some kind of tea-party or swimming pool page, putting the script on it would only close that page, right ?

[Nova]

I'm definitely adding this to my site.

But I am curious, how do you set it to it closes for a particular time zone? Considering the default is GMT.

[sen.fish]

But I am curious, how do you set it to it closes for a particular time zone? Considering the default is GMT.

The getDay() method uses the local time zone! See: "The getDay() method of Date instances returns the day of the week for this date according to local time" (MDN docs). If you want to use a specific timezone, you could try this code (replacing timeZone: "America/New_York" with the time zone of your choice):

Code

var sc = {};
sc.closedPage = "closed.html";
sc.closedDays = ["Monday"];
sc.weekDays = ["Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"];

var dayNow = new Date().toLocaleString("en-US", {
  timeZone: "America/New_York",
  weekday: 'long'
});

// Trigger this site closer!
function shutItDown() {
  sc.dayNow = new Date().toLocaleString("en-US", {timeZone: "America/New_York", weekday: 'long' });

  if (sc.closedDays.includes(sc.dayNow)) {
    console.log("Gordon Ramsay screams: Shut it Down!!!");
    window.location.replace(sc.closedPage);
  }
}

shutItDown();

[Skykristal]

ohh I didn't know you made this public. Very cool, thank you so much!  I will definitely use it in the future

[Nova]

Coming into this again to ask how to add how long a website can be closed for (Isay like, 11 PM tp 9 AM).

Asking cuz a friend of mine is getting into building his own website, and he wants this JS not just to shut down his site on certain days but at certain hours too (he wants to do a silly thing akin to those "3 AM challenges" for his site lmao)

[Milo The Bun]

Implemented this onto my own site to close it on Sundays. Great way to remind people to take a break from the internet for a day. Lol

[Corrupted Unicorn]

I'd love to see if other variants of the idea could be implemented. Can you close a site for certain hours? The entire year except one month, one week, one week, one hour, one minute? 

Of course, sounds kinda counterproductive, but it could lead to some fun ideas, methinks