Closed on Sundays

Yesterday, for the first time, I closed my site. Any page you visited turned you away with this message:

This site is closed on Sundays. I’m trying to avoid screens at least one day out of the week, and this is my way of encouraging others to consider doing the same. I’d apologize for the inconvenience, but I think in many ways modern expectations of convenience have gotten way out of hand, don’t you? Feel free to bookmark this page and come back another day, and I hope you’re able to step away from the screen and find another way to enjoy your Sunday. If not, well, there’s a whole lot more internet out there. But for today, this little piece of it is closed.

I took the idea from Sticker Ninja, and I was also inspired by Heydon Pickering, who once trolled the React-obsessed web-dev world with a devilish “Please disable JavaScript to view this site.” (My “closed on Sundays” message can likewise be subverted by disabling JavaScript, but wouldn’t you rather go for a walk?)

I don’t do any user tracking or other analytics on the site, so I have no way of knowing how many visitors will be affected, though I suspect the number is very close to zero. Nevertheless, if I can convince even one wretched, screen-addled soul that their Sunday might be better spent chasing an ice cream truck or learning to juggle, my work will not have been in vain.