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#131

trying to move to mcmurdo station broke it! so I moved to hawaii undefined-McMurdo-Station probably best to just allow us to enter GPS coordinates

This website doesn't check whether your profile link matches the city you typed in their website. It means you can place any other user wherever you want as long as they have a link in their profile (moved you to Taiwan as a test).

It's also a big buggy since you show up in both places now.

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#133
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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!

There are, for example, over 30 cities in the US named Springfield.

Funny that I'm also in Springfield and faced this issue. I didn't think it was such a common name.

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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…

An app that would allow an account to change it's location more than 3 times in a year is a broken app in my book.

People move all the time. People also often have multiple accounts, which they could use to determine which accounts are located where.

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#135

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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?

It is interesting to me and others.

There's a person living in Vila do Corvo. I didn't know that was a place. What are they interested in? What do the technical people of Vila do Corvo post about?

(In this case, not much, but it was fun to find out.)

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#136
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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. M…

> 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

The irony is that a lot of our city names came from Europe.

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

#137
post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. M…

Every time o put directions to my local market town of Newport in Shropshire, google insists on thinking I want to travel two hours to Wales.

I guess it could be worse and I’d end up in the Isle of Wight.

Reused names isn’t just an American thing.

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

#138
Well done! I have one suggestion. Given how geographically sparse HN users are, you could consider listing nearby users too. For example:

2 hackers in Ankh-Morpork:

- Lord Vetinari

- Igor

3 hackers within 10 mi (16 km):

- Susan (Sto Helit)

- Princess Keli (Sto Lat)

- Lord Rodley (Quirm)

(It can be a bit tricky, though.)

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

#139
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There are, for example, over 30 cities in the US named Springfield.

Funny that I'm also in Springfield and faced this issue. I didn't think it was such a common name.

Key reason the Simpsons live there - it could be anywhere.

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

#140
I like this.

I know this might sound petty, but the thing preventing me from signing up is your comfort level dispersing information through x.com. You said "meet.hn has a twitter page", but sadly, twitter is dead and has been replaced by something sinister. I can't support them, even tangentially.

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