[Jonovono]

Sweet. I am going to try this out!

Has anyone here used Self Control? (http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol/). Sometimes when I block websites, like Reddit.com and this one and few others it makes other websites look weird. Like the page will still load but be broken. I think Self Control is blocking sites the same way this does. Any idea why this happens?

[timothya]

I've used Self Control, and I like it in principle (it makes it difficult to disable it after it's been turned on, which I like).

However, in practice it doesn't work too well for me. If you block youtube.com or plus.google.com it tends to block other parts of Google (including Search and Docs), which is a big dealbreaker. There's an Issue on Github for the bug, but it's really old and there hasn't been any progress on it. If it worked as it should, then I'd actually consider using Self Control.

[Jonovono]

Yeah, exactly. That's what I like about it too. Have you tried this one out? If it solves those problems, it wouldn't be too hard to make it work like Self Control. Maybe a GUI could be made for it. I am more familiar working in Node.

[timothya]

Well, this one doesn't seem to be working at the moment, it's giving me errors, though I haven't spent much time trying to figure out what's going on.

I'd like to add preset block time to this one though, and / or make it harder to disable.

[nicholassmith]

I use it now and again, never come across that but you're right it does work on the hosts file in the same way.