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Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

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I’m getting the following error: “No about section for this HN user. Waiting a minute to let HN API update.“ https://imgur.com/a/B1u4ZXA

I was getting the same issues due to the capitalization of my name. Just as a note to make sure yours is correct as well.

Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

#112

you should probably use some kind of API to help people input their city/country.

I do, I'm using nominatim from openstreetmap. I used a simple API call for the sake of simplicity, but now that the product is out, I'll probably switch to something more robust.

Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

#115
I placed myself at McMurdo Station and it shows up on the map but clicking the icon throws a 500 error.

Edit: seems to be fixed (by removing my icon from the map, now it throws error 500 when posting the data to re-add it).

Edit 2: you can place yourself in North Korea but clicking the [M] doesn't work because the name contains non ASCII characters. Also it returns error 405 when adding yourself (despite actually saving the data).

Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

#116

This 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…

I hope that won't be the case for me. I added myself to Madrid, let's see how it goes.

Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

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When I type in "Kraków, Poland", I get meet.hn/city/pl-undefined. Does your code handle diacritics correctly?

Well, congrats on finding the second bug! Thanks! This one is pretty big, even as big as it's funny. > Does your code handle diacritics correctly? It seems it doesn't, no. Sorry for this. It's my first attempt at an international product. To give you more details, I'm using this query to fetch cities data: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?city=${rawCity}&c... I probably shouldn't have restricted accept-lang…

Even worse than that, it's not possible to view cities with non-English characters in their names – like Łódź, but also Jyväskylä or İzmir.
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