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Hacker news directory - find hackers at your school

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Re: Hacker news directory - find hackers at your school

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Post by orib »

jmtame wrote: post #4
paulgb wrote: post #3

Cool, but .edu is almost exclusively used by U.S. schools only. If you whitelist @uwaterloo.ca, I know that there are a few uwaterloo students on HN.

I don't mean to limit it to us schools only, I just threw this together last Saturday. How do you suggest I make this work for all hackers at all schools?

Allow any email address.

I'm at mcmaster, which has a mcmaster.ca address. I don't think it's possible to match on email address to allow all schools, so just ask for the school that someone attends. If you let some non-students through, what does it matter?

Re: Hacker news directory - find hackers at your school

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Post by jmtame »

mnemonik wrote: post #17

Hmmmm. I entered my email and hit create account, got the email with my password, and tried to login but it says the username/password do not match. Looks like a cool idea though, I would like to be able to sign up.

edit> the login and adding schools issues were fixed (or so appear to be).

Re: Hacker news directory - find hackers at your school

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Post by arjunb »

paulgb wrote: post #5
jmtame wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't mean to limit it to us schools only, I just threw this together last Saturday. How do you suggest I make this work for all hackers at all schools?

Unfortunately, not all countries have a standard TLD for schools. I think the only way around it is with a whitelist of domains, but I'm not sure where the list would come from. Maybe someone has created it already? Either that, or use the facebook API.

yeah, you can use facebook connect to get the school networks associated to a user. might help simplify your reg process.
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