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Re: Show HN: Camp Fire – chat with people within a radius

#41

Post by owlninja » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 1:40 PM UTC

Fnoord wrote: post #30

Thank you for reminding me to enable "Block new requests asking to access your location. This will prevent any websites not listed above from requesting permission to access your location. Blocking access to your location may break some website features." in my browser. I have no interest to share my current location with random websites. You may have an average: "The Netherlands", and that's it.

So this website isn't for you...

Re: Show HN: Camp Fire – chat with people within a radius

#42

Post by nemasu » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 1:46 PM UTC

bullen wrote: post #39

state_less wrote: post #35

Looks neat! I like that you show how many are in range. Here's some suggestions, take them for what they are worth. - Fix the layout on iOS Safari. - Show the location of all current users (with opt out) on a globe. Users can see where the activity is and who is chatting where. - Consider adding ignore to squelch certain users. - Show past messages for your area. - Add voice messages and autoplay (with opt out)

But first make the location by IP so you don't have to turn on browser geo-location.

This isn't accurate enough. Custom lat/lon though I might add.

Re: Show HN: Camp Fire – chat with people within a radius

#43

Post by ensozos » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 1:49 PM UTC

Try to do something with spam messages

Re: Show HN: Camp Fire – chat with people within a radius

#44

Post by Fnoord » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 1:49 PM UTC

owlninja wrote: post #41

Fnoord wrote: post #30

Thank you for reminding me to enable "Block new requests asking to access your location. This will prevent any websites not listed above from requesting permission to access your location. Blocking access to your location may break some website features." in my browser. I have no interest to share my current location with random websites. You may have an average: "The Netherlands", and that's it.

So this website isn't for you...

Could've been for me (I like the concept!), if I could allow the "Allow Location" to be less precise, or manually fill it in.

Re: Show HN: Camp Fire – chat with people within a radius

#45

Post by nemasu » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 1:55 PM UTC

ensozos wrote: post #43

Try to do something with spam messages

Will add throttling. But going to bed now, will try to do it tomorrow. Might be unpleasant in there for a bit -_-

Re: Show HN: Camp Fire – chat with people within a radius

#46

Post by derangedHorse » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 2:01 PM UTC

You might want to make 'message-text' have relative positioning, and 'range-display' absolutely positioned so 'ignition' or 'bonfire' isn't hovering over the text box.

Re: Show HN: Camp Fire – chat with people within a radius

#47

Post by bullen » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 2:14 PM UTC

nemasu wrote: post #42

bullen wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But first make the location by IP so you don't have to turn on browser geo-location.

This isn't accurate enough. Custom lat/lon though I might add.

Just add country/city dropdowns?

Re: Show HN: Camp Fire – chat with people within a radius

#48

Post by inkeddeveloper » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 2:36 PM UTC

andrewzah wrote: post #26

thejosh wrote: post #25

Reminds me of yikyak :)

Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. I remember when yikyak on college campuses was a thing.

Ooo...that name takes me back.

Re: Show HN: Camp Fire – chat with people within a radius

#49

Post by inkeddeveloper » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 2:37 PM UTC

laurensr wrote: post #6

Kinda reminds me of Grindr, except for the different target audience ;)

You don't know that for sure.

Re: Show HN: Camp Fire – chat with people within a radius

#50

Post by every_other » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 4:14 PM UTC

This is cool! I had been thinking about creating something similar but I couldn't solve this problem:

Given a radius of 5 miles and three users in a geographic straight line, each 4 miles from each other. User 1 and user 2 are in the same radius, user 2 and three are in the same radius but user 1 and 3 are not in the same radius. Therefor user 1 and 3 will only see "half" the conversation (which would obviously be confusing). Do you solve for this problem? if so, how?