Should the forum be closed on mondays?

[wolfkitty42]

Personally, I like it a lot. Places in the real world close a few days each week. I don't think it's a bad thing that Melonland takes a day off as well.

It's nice. I feel like so much of the internet is begging you to stay on it, to be there as much as possible- The more time you spend on a site, the more ads you can see, haha! It's really, really nice to have a forum that subverts that by having mandatory downtime.

Plus, I think it's nice to be used to regular downtime. When websites or services go down, it can be a big event. I feel like it's cool to  be used to downtime in case Melonland ever experiences any outages.

[Gizmo]

I feel mixed about the closing-on-Monday policy. On one hand, it adds to the feeling of this forum being a real place since (most) establishments IRL aren't open 24/7/365. It also helps prevent people from making this forum their whole life by making people stay off for at least one day. However... time zones mean the forum closes at 5PM on Sunday for me, and it really sucks when I want to check in only to realize that the forum just closed, especially when it's for stuff like CSS tutorials. Overall, I'm slightly against it overall, but I see the reasoning, and it's not the end of the world to not be able to visit 1 out of 7 days.

[candycanearter07]

it really sucks when I want to check in only to realize that the forum just closed, especially when it's for stuff like CSS tutorials.

You can use the "print topic" button to have a plain text version that isn't affected by the Monday closures

[Inlusione]

I always tend to check the forum on Mondays and then forget about it until later that week. I'd keep it closed only until a certain hour in the morning to avoid such situations, but I don't really mind.