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When I type in "Kraków, Poland", I get meet.hn/city/pl-undefined. Does your code handle diacritics correctly?
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…
Need a “wise old dudes” meet up and charge those under 40 to attend- few 20 to 30 year olds understand how much of value they could get from an “old dude” for the price of a beer/coffee.
Not saying there aren't any, buy I would avoid conflating old and wise together.
What about security? How is this protected from abuse? Why is this all public information? It feels like a honeypot to be honest. My suggestion would be to hide the names unless visitor is logged in AND there is a match in their city.
> hide the names unless visitor is logged in I hate websites that do this. People know that what they're putting here will be public, they make the judgment themselves if they're okay with that.
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="1_username"
qazxcvbnm
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="1_location"
Hong Kong Island, China
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="0"
["$undefined","$K1"]
-----------------------------74974701830891853922449739590--What about security? How is this protected from abuse? Why is this all public information? It feels like a honeypot to be honest. My suggestion would be to hide the names unless visitor is logged in AND there is a match in their city.
That just gives a false sense of security. Someone who means harm would simply set themselves to each city successively, while people believe it to be private (similar to the location feature in dating apps that keeps being broken to find people's exact addresses). Not that I see what harm there is in associating a username with a (nearby) city when one makes that choice consciously, so it's not like the dating app s…
Have 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!
I can't tell if it's being URL encoded or not, so that's a possibility. I imagine most cities don't have apostrophes in the name so it might be an edge case.
Confirms my suspicion that the most active HN users are in Canada/East Coast/Europe. When I first discovered HN I thought it was a small Stanford thing, but over time realized it's mostly a Canada/Europe crowd (even most of the YC founders that come to San Francisco for their startup are from those places).
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> hide the names unless visitor is logged in I hate websites that do this. People know that what they're putting here will be public, they make the judgment themselves if they're okay with that.
Why do you care if the screen shows 5 people in city X (which is not your city anyway)? What use do you have of knowing exact names of people in city X half way acros the globe?
There 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!