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Ask HN: What's up with live location timer defaults?

1 pointsby nidnogg8 months ago
This is a minor nitpick that just irks me to no end, but I figured there weren&#x27;t many good places to ask. Maybe someone here implemented the first iteration of this. It doesn&#x27;t matter whether you&#x27;re using WhatsApp, Telegram or what have you. Whenever there&#x27;s a &quot;share live-location&quot; option, the defaults suck.<p>It&#x27;s most often either 15 minutes, 1 hour or 8 hours.<p>99% of the time I need it for 2 hours and a half. If it&#x27;s 8 hours, I forget about it and it wastes all of my phone battery (this often leads to dangerous situations in my country). If it&#x27;s 15 minutes, people start nagging me to turn it back on.<p>What&#x27;s with this limitation? It seems like a super easy thing to parametrize. The feature is nice but I always get this bug behind my ear. Why is it this way?

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