Very nice. Please add an AP option like a Mastodon account, Pixelfed, etc. No way am I using x anymore.
Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city
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#342Earlier quoted context omitted.
Frankfurt am Main and Frankfurt an der Oder in Germany.
I made the mistake once of "flying to Frankfurt!" on some low-cost airline out of the UK and landed in Frankfurt-Hahn. Yikes.
In "Frankfurt-Hahn" the "Frankfurt" is still the same Frankfurt you (probably) wanted, you just got a different airport located further out. "Frankfurt an der Oder" is on the other side of Germany on the border with Poland, a ~7h drive away.
So this is more like you going to NY and landing at Newark when you expected JFK where Frankfurt an der Oder would be like ending up in New York, Iowa.
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#343I like that idea but I purposely stay anonymous on HN and I would be DOXing myself if I used this. It'd be great to be able to either use it without a username (ideally) or have the choice to keep your HN username private.
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#344I added myself, I hope it catches on!
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#345Thank you for letting me be the 1st hacker on my island ;)
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#346Added myself for the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg / Luxembourg (City) (lu-Luxembourg as this meet.hn encodes that country-city). Motivated to meet dmichulke, pvtmert and uselpa... And the others who may join.
Count me in. I'd suggest an afterwork in the city. But please consider adding a way to contact you to your "about" section.
OK will do. I'll email you one of these days and we'll go for an afterwork Place d'Armes or Place Guillaume II or at the Kirschberg or something like that!
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#347When 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…
I live in Vietnam and have the same problem I think. My city has diacritics in its name, but the query
https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?city=B%E1%BA%AFc-...
works fine.
Unlike the parent post, it does not go to undefined, it just returns 404 when clicking on the map.
Some 404 examples:
https://meet.hn/city/vn-B%E1%BA%AFc-Ninh https://meet.hn/city/vn-H%C3%A0-N%E1%BB%99i
Working examples in Vietnam
https://meet.hn/city/vn-Da-Nang https://meet.hn/city/vn-Ho-Chi-Minh-City
(technically the last examples should be Đà Nẵng and Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, but I guess because they are internationally known cities, they use the English names?)
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#348Earlier quoted context omitted.
You want a dropdown listing every city in the world?
Yes, that is the standard UI for this problem. You select a country, then that loads a the country's divisions ilfor another select box, and that load the cities for that division. Another way is auto complete for the city with just country preselected.
I see that UI on some European sites. It’s basically nonfunctional for the US, at least. (Especially the latter approach with no “division” narrowing.) There are hundreds of towns with duplicate names, people might want to use region names that don’t exist politically (“Bay Area”), and people can be in incorporated towns (San Francisco) or unincorporated areas that get assigned Census Bureau names based on usage (Bay Point). There is just no way to create an autocomplete list that encompasses every valid place, and it’s a waste of time to try.
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#349I have not checked all cities, but Berlin seems to be a strong contender for HN's capital. Do any cities have more hackers?
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#350Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I live in Vietnam and have the same problem I think. My city has diacritics in its name, but the query https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?city=B%E1%BA%AFc-... works fine. Unlike the parent post, it does not go to undefined, it just returns 404 when clicking on the map. Some 404 examples: https://meet.hn/city/vn-B%E1%BA%AFc-Ninh https://meet.hn/city/vn-H%C3%A0-N%E1%BB%99i Working examples in Vietnam https://me…
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1973756 has `name=Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh` and `name:en= Ho Chi Minh City`