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

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Post by Tomte »

lolinder wrote: post #105
sirobg wrote: post #78

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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…

We usually don’t think much about duplicate city names in America, but we sure notice that you‘ve taken all of ours!

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

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Post by FractalHQ »

pcj-github wrote: post #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 You said "meet.hn has a twitter page", but sadly, twitter is dead and has been replaced by something sinister.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.

Imho, your take isn’t as “petty” as it is goofy and unproductive. I’m saying this as someone who has rejected social media entirely and deleted it off of my devices like 10 years go.

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

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Post by pcj-github »

FractalHQ wrote: post #142
pcj-github wrote: post #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 You said "meet.hn has a twitter page", but sadly, twitter is dead and has been replaced by something sinister.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.

Imho, your take isn’t as “petty” as it is goofy and unproductive. I’m saying this as someone who has rejected social media entirely and deleted it off of my devices like 10 years go.

Noted, appreciate your opinion.

The OP says in the signup that if you meet up in person and tweet a photo, he'll re-tweet you through the meet.hn x handle. Sounds benign, and it mostly is.

I'm just personally uncomfortable supporting an otherwise good cause wherein x.com gets more attention and data about the good folks on HN, because I really don't trust them and their data governance.

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

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Post by atmanactive »

tacitusarc wrote: post #134
atmanactive wrote: post #126

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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.

Then it would need a GPS-backed proof to allow more location changes while preventing abuse. There's always an intended use case and corner cases which could be handled via support ticket, thus passing through human judgement.

If there is a secure app on your phone, then how can you have multiple accounts?

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

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Post by cactusfrog »

pcj-github wrote: post #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.

Twitter/X keeps spamming me with NSFW things so I deleted it

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

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Post by atmanactive »

RadiozRadioz wrote: post #135
atmanactive wrote: post #124

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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.)

Exactly. A _person_. That's enough information to satisfy curiosity. No need to publish exact names.

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

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Post by RadiozRadioz »

atmanactive wrote: post #146
RadiozRadioz wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.)

Exactly. A _person_. That's enough information to satisfy curiosity. No need to publish exact names.

If I don't know their username, how can I look at what they post about? I think lots of people on HN are curious and inquisitive by nature

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

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Post by CaptainOfCoit »

Nice little thing, congrats to shipping :)

I find it ironic that there are many cities with N hackers on meet.hn, yet most are not attaching any way of contacting them, nor do their profile have a way to contact them.

How are you (the people without contact details) expecting us to meet you if you don't add a way of meeting you? :)

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

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Post by rkagerer »

dr_kiszonka wrote: post #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.)

Those guys are just scroll urchins. Those in the know will tell you the real clackers are Winton, Carlton and Emery of the Smoking Gnu.
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