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

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Post by sebastiennight »

delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #223
sebastiennight wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

See reply below.

Your reply says

> I meant a text box that users could type in, and a drop-down that returned filtered results from the input.

That's what I'm objecting to.

If I type in "San Jose", are you going to show me 1,700 "San Jose" lines where I'm supposed to find the right one?

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

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Post by mproud »

redmajor12 wrote: post #273
mproud wrote: post #267

Could you add Discord to the socials? The format for a Discord user URL is like this: `discordapp.com/users/ ` where ` ` is an integer. (People can copy the user ID when signed into Discord.)

Please don't. Discord is contrary to everything HN stands for as a community.

You could say the same thing for X, Facebook, Reddit, or YouTube. They all have flaws and controversies. Why not let each person decide which socials they want to participate in and share?

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

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

This is a very nice project, to start with. Thank you very much for that!

I checked Paris and most of the people I see are either CEOs or VC (or something around that). I was expecting this demographics in the US, probably less in France.

I am a pure nerd, interested in technology applied to everyday items (think Home Assistant, some amateur 3D printing) but also history and all these discussions about random topics that many perceive as a waste of time.

OP: would you consider adding interests (say, the top 5) to help with matchmaking?

EDIT: woah, I just realized it is there!! Thanks!!

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

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

detourdog wrote: post #231
dang wrote: post #192

I've often thought about building something like this into HN itself and having a 'meet' tab at the top. There are so many people, me included, whose lives have been changed by HN. I would love to find a way to encourage more positive effects in the real world. Not sure exactly how this would work, but it's encouraging to see the community taking up the cause again, and I'll be interested to hear about how this goes.…

I would love to have a meet tab. Maybe those that want to meet could fill in the zip code and maybe a date range.

I do not know how zip codes work in the US, but in France this is very, very specific to the city you live in. There is no concept of "area".

The first 2 digits of the zip code are an area, but a large one.

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Post by wingworks »

justmarc wrote: post #300
fortran77 wrote: post #289

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would imagine if they don't put an email (I don't) they don't want to be contacted. If people want to find me badly enough, they do--it's happened several times!

This can't possibly always be true.

I never had any contact details in my profile, in fact it was empty before today. I would actually love to meet like minded people. Just never thought anyone would want to (or be able to, I live kinda way out from where you'd normally find tech people). + couldn't be bothered to setup a burnable email in case of spam.

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Post by detourdog »

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #304
detourdog wrote: post #231

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would love to have a meet tab. Maybe those that want to meet could fill in the zip code and maybe a date range.

I do not know how zip codes work in the US, but in France this is very, very specific to the city you live in. There is no concept of "area". The first 2 digits of the zip code are an area, but a large one.

I think that is about the same as the USA. Do you think zip codes wouldn’t work. I thought that it was the simplest mechanism. A city is an area and it is easy to tell how close to a zip code one is.

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Post by detourdog »

wingworks wrote: post #305
justmarc wrote: post #300

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This can't possibly always be true.

I never had any contact details in my profile, in fact it was empty before today. I would actually love to meet like minded people. Just never thought anyone would want to (or be able to, I live kinda way out from where you'd normally find tech people). + couldn't be bothered to setup a burnable email in case of spam.

Sound like we live near each other:)

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

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Post by detourdog »

dualogy wrote: post #295
eperssona wrote: post #285

It's really disheartening. All those names the OP has mentioned, but we can't see them as X.com has X'ed them under password. We need to look at some other service that is open to share our own identities without the login hell. Does anyone know if such service is available?

I was side-wondering whether OP is an X employee with all that x.com linking and mentioning. (What's hax0r about X in the year 2007+17, laments childish-laconic-portion-of-me =) In the audience space of meet.hn, defaulting to github/gitlab/sourcehut/etc profiles instead would have been just more apt =)

I don’t know if an actual identity system is needed. I would think just have a location and an email is north to work out the details. I don’t like to prove who I am to most people on the internet. I do like to meet and talk but exactly who anybody is I prefer to take them at they com.

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Post by wingworks »

detourdog wrote: post #307
wingworks wrote: post #305

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never had any contact details in my profile, in fact it was empty before today. I would actually love to meet like minded people. Just never thought anyone would want to (or be able to, I live kinda way out from where you'd normally find tech people). + couldn't be bothered to setup a burnable email in case of spam.

Sound like we live near each other:)

Near as in, in NZ? or like in the bay? Not many tech people stay in the bay, let alone in NZ.

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

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Post by prdpx7 »

eperssona wrote: post #285

It's really disheartening. All those names the OP has mentioned, but we can't see them as X.com has X'ed them under password. We need to look at some other service that is open to share our own identities without the login hell. Does anyone know if such service is available?

here you go https://xcancel.com/
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