There is a bug where Polish cities with "ł" are returning error 404, causing the website to reload (i.e. Wrocław).
Why the majority of webapps completely ignore error handling?
Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city
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#102Nice! You could add a feature to organize and host a meeting or contact people in some way. :-)
Thank you!
Yes I would love to. I'll have to think of the best way to add this. If you have any suggestion please do share it!
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
No problem. As a Polish person, it is my duty to find zażółć-gęślą-jaźń-related bugs in other people's code.
> zażółć-gęślą-jaźń-related bugs If this does mean something it's even more hilarious!
Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city
#104Have signed up. It says there's another signup from my location, but is failing to show me. It just redirects to the home page. It is showing for another city, so perhaps due to the space in the name? Thanks. meet.hn/city/in-New Delhi
Should be fixed for New Delhi now: https://meet.hn/city/in-New-Delhi Sorry for this, and thanks for reporting!
No worries. I've updated in my profile too. Thanks.
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#105There are multiple cities in the U.S. with the name of my city, so unfortunately this doesn't work for me.
I'm sorry about that. I didn't realize it would be a problem. It's been reported before and I'll work on this. Thanks for sharing!
It's a funny cultural thing that it wouldn't have even occurred to me that someone in Europe wouldn't realize city names can conflict—it's a chronic problem here in the states.
There are some ridiculously common city names here, but one that's been in the news lately and probably confusing a lot of people is Springfield, which is the name of at least 42 different cities in the US [0], including 5 just in Wisconsin. Most of them are small, but 5 of them (Massachusetts, Missouri, Illinois, Oregon, Ohio) have more the 20k residents.
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#106Cool! Sadly there is no drop down for the city name (at least on iOS), so I can't register my town. There is two Saint-Denis in France, my one isn't the usual one ;)
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#107This is a great idea, and I sincerely want it to work out. For myself, I'll probably not use it, but that's because I'm an "old," and I stopped attending local meetups, because I was always surrounded by a circle of avoidance, where no one would look at me, or have anything to do with me. Got a bit tiresome, but it's the way of the world, I guess. For non-olds, these meetups are great, with a lot of energy and enthus…
> This is a great idea, and I sincerely want it to work out.
Thank you!
> I stopped attending local meetups, because I was always surrounded by a circle of avoidance, where no one would look at me, or have anything to do with me
Meetups (as in "group meetups") might be part of meet.hn, but I also saw it as a way to meet new people one to one.
Hopefully this makes you change your mind, I'm sure you would have plenty of things to share!
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#108This is really neat. Well done on the UX and functionality.
I saw others already mentioned uniqueness of city names. In the US there is no guarantee a state, zip code, or even county won't have a duplicate city name. To solve this one must store the lat/lng coordinates instead. Then offer users a search list of matched cities, so they can select the right geographic location.
Good stuff - cheers!
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#109very cool! I'm surprised there are no signups in SF yet. I'm sure many will come.
> very cool!
Thank you very much!
> I'm surprised there are no signups in SF yet.
Surprised as well! So much so that I signed up in SF myself to make sure it was working as expected
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#110Have you seen https://loginwithhn.com/ ?
Seems to also fall into the category of services on top of HN, like this one and at.hn.