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

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Post by sirobg »

phoe-krk wrote: post #16

When 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-language to en-US. I'll investigate and make this work.

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

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Post by djbusby »

sirobg wrote: post #13
skeltoac wrote: post #10

- 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…

> They criticize everything, and very easily

I think that is a feature, not a bug.

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

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Post by sickcodebruh »

This is neat. I added myself.

I'm hitting a bug where clicking New York just refreshes the page instead of loading the city's page. Los Angeles, San José, and... most cities seem to exhibit it. Chicago seems to work?

Picking a city was tough. It insisted on the more general New York instead of the more specific Long Island City.

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

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Post by sirobg »

dewey wrote: post #11

Looks cool! I've used the search or meetup.com before for this use case when I'm traveling, but meetup.com is slowly going away it seems. Feature Requests: - Mastodon support in the social dropdown - Auto complete on the location selector

Thanks a lot for the feedbacks!

- will add!

- will add as well! I wanted something simple to launch quick and see if the project was of interest. It seems it is, so I will implement it!

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

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

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 enthusiasm.

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

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Post by febusravenga »

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.

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