The countdown doesn't work and I can't access the website. It is permanently blocked.

It doesn't work. It doesn't allow me to access the page.

it can't change time and much bugs

I used to love this add-on, of which I'd used an old version on Waterfox until switching back to Firefox recently, and let me tell you: This add-on doesn't seem to do anything anymore. Since having it installed, Ive been just plain locked out of my blacklisted sites altogether. I haven't used my 2 hours of allotted time because I'm never permitted to visit the site in the first place; The timer never starts counting down thus I can't even confirm if the Time Remaining alerts work or not. This is just really a bummer, and I'd love if this add-on could be made to work again.

The promise of this add-on was so tempting. I surveyed other "procrastination" add-ons, and found Monastery's feature set to be the most attractive.

Then I installed it and tried using it.

It just plain doesn't seem to work. The timer doesn't reset each day. The warnings don't pop up. When I *first* installed it, the 30 second "throttling" feature worked, but then it stopped working, counting down to 0, and just ending up stuck.

This extension does not have anywhere close to the full functionality of StayFocused. You cannot specify blackout hours, which is what you can do with StayFocused. Rather than setting time limits for sites, you block out entire hours where your blacklisted sites (or ALL sites, using the Nuclear Option) will not work.

The only thing you can do with this extension is set time limits for sites. Disappointing.

This is my second day. First, I didn't recognize the time "warning" because it was labeled Monastery which I didn't recognize as the name of the app I had installed. So I got locked out abruptly. I went into the settings to edit the amount of time I'm allowed. Now, on day 2 I'm still locked out - pretty sure more than 24 hours went by. But then why should it be a 24 hour thing anyway? I would like the clock to start at 12:00 am for each 24-hour day so I'm not locked out in the morning if I made a change yesterday afternoon. As it is I have no idea when I can get on the site again .... I'm just waiting ... or maybe I'll just uninstall it. I'm sure others have when this happens.

And as others have mentioned it would be nice to dial in a time limit for each blacklisted URL.

UPDATE: Day 3 - still locked out. I don't understand what's happening. I'll wait until tomorrow to decide whether to uninstall.

I wish I could try to use this. But by default it is set to only one minute, and when I try to change the settings to 15 minutes (what I ideally want), it tells me I can't change the settings for 24 hours. This has happened twice now and I haven't been able to actually get in to save it before it blocks me from changing. A 1 minute default is pretty ridiculous, please change it to something more reasonable so we can actually set it up and use the app.

EDIT: Tried it the next day and I was able to save my 15 minute limit. I then switched to my limited site and it blocked me after 1 minute. USELESS IF YOU CAN'T ACTUALLY ADJUST THE SETTINGS.

Is this add on still in developpement ? The delay mode dont work for me, it just freeze and block the site for the rest of the day o_O ...But thank you

Exactly what I was looking for in a time management addon for Firefox. This is one of the only few that actually blocks sites still after the API switch on the newer versions of Firefox. A huge life saver and a big thanks for the developers for keeping this up to date! However as of right now setting the time limit doesn't make a difference for today (the day of installation) and thus I have 30 seconds. I'll likely have to wait a day to try and get this to work properly. Fingers crossed though.

Having used StayFocusd I find this app to be very suitable as a Firefox equivalent, but I seem to be encountering a bug. My allotted time for the day does not seem to be renewing itself- I had 2 minutes remaining yesterday, and when I come to browse the following day, or over 24 hours after my last session, 2 minutes is all that remains.

It effectively means that all sites are completely blocked- a bit overkill, so it negates the usefulness of the extension to a large degree, which is a shame, because I can see that if it worked correctly, it would be absolutely ideal. Given the other positive reviews on here, is it possible that I'm the only one this is affecting, and if so, maybe there's a solution?

Works fine, but could use some of the bells and whistles from Stayfocsd in Chrome. I'd particularly like a Nuclear option.

Great extension, I've been looking for something like StayFocusd for Firefox for a long time.

However, there is one very annoying bug, that is the 24 hour clock for deciding when the
"new day" starts begins from the installation time, not the computer time. So, I get "You have used up all your time for the day" till around 3 pm. Please fix that.

not perfect (options UI seems draft and there isn't a "nuclear" option to close all blacklisted sites by the hours) but does its job. lucky since it seems the only valid addon for Firefox, no there isn't choice :)
i just hope that the background engine doesn't eats any CPU to normal navigation.
love the name "Monastery".. i'd love to see a monk shape when showing the lovely pre-delay page :)

Downloaded it for the second time and it's working perfectly. I like it very much. Thank you.

A handsome, spartan alternative to StayFocusd and LeechBlock. It's not as full-featured as either - most notably, there's no Nuclear Option-like functionality or complex week-based schedule blocking. However, since I only use Firefox every now and then for specialized tasks that Chrome can't do, LeechBlock would be massive overkill, and Monastery is perfectly adequate for me.

It is a bit annoying that I can't block Firefox pages, so there's nothing stopping me from disabling Monastery in moments of particular weakness, but that can be fixed with another add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/public-fox/

P.S. - developer is prompt, polite, and responsive.

Since I installed Monastery, I've spent so much less time on the bad parts of Reddit, and spent more time being productive! It's easily customizable. The only problem I've had is that I had to update my system clock to 2018 and back for it to notice my change in time from 1 minute to 45... but it works great after that. :)

This has most of the features I want. There's one feature I would like to suggest, though, that StayFocusd has and this doesn't.

I would like if I could block these sites on Monday-Friday, but not the weekend. Or be able to block from 8am-6pm, for example. The time controls were really helpful.

The app seems to be a good one, with the functions I need. But there seems to be a huge bug. I wanted to try it with 15 mins first but after a minute, I lost the access and can't seem to change the permitted time even after 24 hours. I am on the verge of disabling the app, unfortunately...
EDIT: It actually works now - almost. I think the 24 h problem was that I was trying to change the setting right after I first lost access after that one minute, so it was actually probably 24 h from the time I last changed the settings, or something similar. Still, I can't seem to change the amount of time even before I run out of time. Right now, I have 1 minute and something left and I feel I still need more time to read some things on Facebook, so I wanted to make it longer, but even though the settings say "saved", the clock still shows the same amount of time.

Does exactly what I need it to. I noticed, though, that the Delay Page settings warn me when I set the delay to 0.1 minutes, saying it needs to be at least 0.5 minutes, but then it works anyway.

Add-on starts at the time you install it, NOT at 4am like the description reads. So my hour countdown I assigned starts at 3pm, and blocked a site this morning even though it is a "new day." Needs to be synced with computer clock, not install time.

Also - would be nice to have a list of multiple sites and time limits to add, not just one field of URLs and one total time limit.

Otherwise, functions as described and is useful.

С тех пор как перешел на работу на дому, появилась необходимость сдерживать отвлекающие факторы, в частности соблазн посещать любимые сайты. Эта штука прекрасно справилась с этой проблемой.