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

#71

What about security? How is this protected from abuse? Why is this all public information? It feels like a honeypot to be honest. My suggestion would be to hide the names unless visitor is logged in AND there is a match in their city.

What abuse? Your HN profile is public anyhow.

All this does is show who put a city in their profile. You could find those via Google as well.

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

#72

What about security? How is this protected from abuse? Why is this all public information? It feels like a honeypot to be honest. My suggestion would be to hide the names unless visitor is logged in AND there is a match in their city.

It's all data you chose to share publicly. I wouldn't have put myself on the map if I hadn't been comfortable doing so.

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

#73
post #71

What about security? How is this protected from abuse? Why is this all public information? It feels like a honeypot to be honest. My suggestion would be to hide the names unless visitor is logged in AND there is a match in their city.

What abuse? Your HN profile is public anyhow. All this does is show who put a city in their profile. You could find those via Google as well.

I misunderstood then. I thought this is a brand new data collector. Thank you.

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

#74

didn't know there was an .hn tld, very cool! as a socially anxious person, i just found out there's only 2 of us in my country, and i'm the other one

As a socially anxious person you may want to be asking about the 9876543 people that didn't declare themselves, and what are they hiiding from you.

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

#76

What about security? How is this protected from abuse? Why is this all public information? It feels like a honeypot to be honest. My suggestion would be to hide the names unless visitor is logged in AND there is a match in their city.

> hide the names unless visitor is logged in

I hate websites that do this.

People know that what they're putting here will be public, they make the judgment themselves if they're okay with that.

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

#77

What about security? How is this protected from abuse? Why is this all public information? It feels like a honeypot to be honest. My suggestion would be to hide the names unless visitor is logged in AND there is a match in their city.

That just gives a false sense of security. Someone who means harm would simply set themselves to each city successively, while people believe it to be private (similar to the location feature in dating apps that keeps being broken to find people's exact addresses). Not that I see what harm there is in associating a username with a (nearby) city when one makes that choice consciously, so it's not like the dating app situation where you (1) believe the location will remain secret and (2) it being revealed means your exact address is now known

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

#78

There 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!

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

#79

> 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.

You want a dropdown listing every city in the world?
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