Great tool! But the City, Country box is a bit unintuitive. I am not sure how to fill my place in. I live in the US so it is "city, state, country"
Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city
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#172Wait, are there really 36 Hacker News users in North Korea? The map just refreshes if I check that, but it seems kinda unbelievable given how isolated the country is and how heavily monitored the folks living there are.
Either way, had a bit of trouble adding myself due to the tool expecting this data to be the only thing in the user's bio. Could it be updated to check if the text exists anywhere at all? Because quite a few people here will want to discuss their side projects and startups first, not start off with a random block of tags.
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#173I 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 You said "meet.hn has a twitter page", but sadly, twitter is dead and has been replaced by something sinister.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.
I also strongly dislike X being used as the primary host of public information not because of any moral disagreements with the company, but because of how inaccessible it's becoming.
Information should be accessible to anyone anywhere on any device, with or without an account. X doesn't fit that role.
Same reason I hate when companies have a Facebook page and nothing else.
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#174Earlier 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…
The amount of cities called "white city" around here is annoying to, but at least they have the decency to be spelled differently.
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#175Wait, are there really 36 Hacker News users in North Korea? The map just refreshes if I check that, but it seems kinda unbelievable given how isolated the country is and how heavily monitored the folks living there are. Either way, had a bit of trouble adding myself due to the tool expecting this data to be the only thing in the user's bio. Could it be updated to check if the text exists anywhere at all? Because quit…
I was able to add myself even though I have another unrelated sentence in my bio. But I think the tool fails to show my interests.
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#176When 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=${rawCity}&c... I probably shouldn't have restricted accept-lang…
This is probably the first time I've seen a diacritics/text-encoding problem created by a French developer, rather than us French folks complaining about US-centric language decisions!
If you want anybody on HN to access, you might want accept-language to be set to an asterisk `*`.
Good luck and I hope we can someday meet up if I'm in Toulouse!
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#177There are multiple cities in the U.S. with the name of my city, so unfortunately this doesn't work for me.
I'm sorry about that. I didn't realize it would be a problem. It's been reported before and I'll work on this. Thanks for sharing!
Check out how many "greenville" s there are. Even several in the same state.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenville
There's even more than one "Las Vegas".
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#178- Great idea, thanks for sharing! - country-city does not work well in the US because we have many duplicated city names in different states - what harsh reputation? :)
- Thank you very much! - Damn, didn't know that. I just had the feedback that Paris, Tennessee wasn't working already. Today I'm using nominatim from openstreetmap to fetch cities data. This request: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?city=${rawCity}&c... I guess I'll have to change this for a less restrictive search. I wanted a city and country to have a nice and simple URL though. If you have any suggestion…
Probably city-zipcode-country would disambiguate effectively both for the US (where you could have several Springfield cities in different states) and Europe (where there are probably, for instance, quite a number of `Sainte-Anne` cities on top of Guadeloupe's)
I think we're probably going to get a blog post from you a couple weeks from now titled "falsehoods programmers believe about cities"!
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#179Wait, are there really 36 Hacker News users in North Korea? The map just refreshes if I check that, but it seems kinda unbelievable given how isolated the country is and how heavily monitored the folks living there are. Either way, had a bit of trouble adding myself due to the tool expecting this data to be the only thing in the user's bio. Could it be updated to check if the text exists anywhere at all? Because quit…
I was able to add myself even though I have another unrelated sentence in my bio. But I think the tool fails to show my interests.
Hmm perhaps it fails with two or more lines at the start of the user bio? I had an extra paragraph or two of text before.
But maybe it's only looking for a certain number of lines and cutting off anything after that, hence why the interests don't show up for you and the tool fails for anyone with a lot of text before the block.
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#180> City not found. Make sure you use the format: City, Country (Paris, France) It might be good to rework this—cities only, and provide a drop-down box for users to select. Having city, country is a bit superfluous for people who live in city-states.
I'm afraid there are... 1,700+ cities[0] in the world called "San José"
That's quite a bit of scrolling you'd be forcing those people to do.
[0]: https://www.ncesc.com/geographic-pedia/what-is-the-most-comm...