Done.
I'm in Dubai.
Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is interesting to me and others. There's a person living in Vila do Corvo. I didn't know that was a place. What are they interested in? What do the technical people of Vila do Corvo post about? (In this case, not much, but it was fun to find out.)
Exactly. A _person_. That's enough information to satisfy curiosity. No need to publish exact names.
It's interesting to know what that person is up to (from what they publically share online).
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#163Cool idea!
Location must be pre-defined (country, state/province, city) and should not be entered by aspiring HN community members.
I don't want to read the whole code to understand why the generated text is pasted in the HN description, or is it just a marketing tactic?
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#164I like this. I know this might sound petty, but the thing preventing me from signing up is your comfort level dispersing information through x.com. You said "meet.hn has a twitter page", but sadly, twitter is dead and has been replaced by something sinister. I can't support them, even tangentially.
Imho, your take isn’t as “petty” as it is goofy and unproductive. I’m saying this as someone who has rejected social media entirely and deleted it off of my devices like 10 years go.
Similar to the parent, I associate x urls with an increasingly unwelcome retail district.
I don't think it's petty, goofy or unproductive to feel uneasy in a once-open place that put up walls, gates and signal-heavy signage.
But even before our present-day Compoundia, Twitter was losing it's way. Prioritizing engagement over users is a bad road.
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#165Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city
#166Doesn't seem to work for Hong Kong
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#167Unable to add Hong Kong. Keeps erroring out with city not found
Hey I know you!
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
Noted, appreciate your opinion. The OP says in the signup that if you meet up in person and tweet a photo, he'll re-tweet you through the meet.hn x handle. Sounds benign, and it mostly is. I'm just personally uncomfortable supporting an otherwise good cause wherein x.com gets more attention and data about the good folks on HN, because I really don't trust them and their data governance.
At some point you need to be pragmatic about minuscule concessions for a net positive action. Otherwise you would be unable to do anything at all.
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#169Trying to add myself fails, showing "Oops! Something uncool is breaking this app.". The POST request seems to be receiving 500 with the following request. -----------------------------74974701830891853922449739590 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="1_username" qazxcvbnm -----------------------------74974701830891853922449739590 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="1_location" Hong Kong Island, China -------------…
I can get it to work by using a district name e.g "Wan Chai, China". There should probably be some special handling for Hong Kong and Macau since although they are in China, they have their own ISO country codes, flags and are divided differently.
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
Funny that I'm also in Springfield and faced this issue. I didn't think it was such a common name.
Key reason the Simpsons live there - it could be anywhere.
Matt Groening grew up in Springfield, OR (also Portland, the streets names sharing a lot of character's names), it was only after he placed it in Springfield that he realized Springfield could be anywhere. He apparently makes direct references to local landmarks and establishments, and certain characters are rumored to have been based off of locals.