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Post by 1over137 »

lolinder wrote: post #105
sirobg wrote: 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…

I knew city names were repeated in different US states, but they repeat even within a state?

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

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Post by Fileformat »

Feature suggestion: a "my location" button on the map, so you can zoom in to your current location. There is a browser API [1] for this (which asks permission, or you can do it based on the IP address [2]

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation...

[2] Geolocation provider comparison: https://resolve.rs/ip/geolocation.html

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

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Post by wafflemaker »

febusravenga wrote: post #28
phoe-krk wrote: post #16

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

It's not diacritics, it's something more broken with geo coding. Szczecin, Poland is found but handle is pl-undefined as for you... But what is more interesting, Stettin, Poland works ok... and link is surprisingly meet.hn/city/pl-Szczecin Geocoding needs some love.

Looks like even 80 years after the war, Germans haven't relinquished the city.¹

¹Stettin is an old German name for the city of Szczecin, which was taken from Germany and given to Poland to punish Germany and Poland² after the WW2.

²Poland lost 180k km² in the east, compared to 100k km² gained in the west.

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

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Post by mrweasel »

lolinder wrote: post #105
sirobg wrote: 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…

Plenty of European countries have conflicting city/town/village names as well. If they grow to large they are sometimes specified by adding more locality to their name.

Denmark has three cities names Nykøbing, typically specified as Nykøbing Mors, Nykøbing Sjælland or Nykøbing Falser. Small places are just allowed to conflict as long as they aren't in the same postcode.

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

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Post by j_maffe »

pcj-github wrote: post #143
FractalHQ wrote: post #142

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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.

At some point you need to be pragmatic about minuscule concessions for a net positive action. Otherwise you would be unable to do anything at all.
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