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

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Post by davidajackson »

andreareina wrote: post #12

I also got a geolocation error even though I allowed location access. Could benefit from allowing the user to set a location as a fallback (or override). FF 72 (Ubuntu)

I think this would be useful for privacy reasons as well.

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

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Post by yellowapple »

davidajackson wrote: post #54
andreareina wrote: post #12

I also got a geolocation error even though I allowed location access. Could benefit from allowing the user to set a location as a fallback (or override). FF 72 (Ubuntu)

I think this would be useful for privacy reasons as well.

And also for "goddamn geoIP database thinks I'm Canadian even though I'm in the US" reasons.

True story, that one. Threw wrenches in a bunch of random things, like Newegg and Spotify. Apparently I wasn't the only one in my town with that issue.

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

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Post by nemasu »

every_other wrote: post #50

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 co…

Nope, they would need to increase radius.

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

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Post by unoti »

every_other wrote: post #50

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 co…

An idea of how to solve that problem: connect a user to the closest person if there is nobody in their radius. Use Disjoint Sets to sort of glom people together like pieces of cereal in milk. Everybody in the same glob can hear each other.
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