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

#371

What's the grammar this is using for parsing the field? The generated text gives vague hints but it's irritating to guess at what the constraints are, especially given update lag.

Sorry for this. The MVP was just a simple string that I split over commas.

Since then I shipped a search box. Hopefully it works for you!

If not, don't hesitate to send a message through meet.hn/feedback with some contact info so that I can answer.

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

#372

I tried to add myself at Kraków, Poland. It said no such city. I tried also Krakow and Cracow spelling. Then when it accepted Kraków again (seemingly), and I posted, I ended up in... Murowana Goślina.

https://meet.hn/city/50.0619474,19.9368564/Krakow

Is it the Kraków you were looking for? Does it work for you now?

If not, don't hesitate to send me a message through meet.hn/feedback with some contact info so that I can answer.

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

#374

given so many problems with city names. maybe just avoid them entirely? use lat/lon and closest clusters on them map. people will figure out themselves which city that is

That's sort of what I ended up doing!

Now there is a search box to find the location you want (not just cities) and then I create URLs like this one: https://meet.hn/city/48.8588897,2.3200410217200766/Paris

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

#375
post #106

Cool! Sadly there is no drop down for the city name (at least on iOS), so I can't register my town. There is two Saint-Denis in France, my one isn't the usual one ;)

Thank you! And sorry for that!

I see that you are registered in Saint Leu now, but if you want you can choose Saint Denis now.

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

#377

I split my time and live in two cities in two countries. I put both in my "about", but I don't know if your map will handle this.

Oh that's an interesting use case. You are the first one!

Unfortunately for now it's not supported, but I'm adding this to the feedback list, thanks!

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

#378

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"

Thanks! Yeah I agree. It was a MVP so I wanted to keep things simple, but of course it came with drawbacks.

Yesterday I shipped a search box, hopefully it'll be easier now.

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

#379
post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you! Mastodon has been requested several times, will add!

Great! My pin disappeared though? I changed my city, maybe that’s why

I had some caching issues, so I think it might have been that, sorry!

Probably didn't got stuck very long though (at least I hope!).

https://meet.hn/city/52.2241375,5.1719396/Hilversum

Just check and at least I can see you now!

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

#380

This is great, it couldn't find my actual city, so i used the closest one that was available lol.

You should be able to find your city now!

If not, don't hesitate to share some details with me through meet.hn/feedback. Make sure to add some contact info so that I can answer.

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