I like it, though more than just schools would be good in the future. It is a little frustrating that I can look outside my startup's window and see NYU but since I'm at another school so I can't meet the person who signed up from NYU. I think you will ultimately need a Facebook like network setup if you want to go seriously with this.
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#12I really like this, so here are my suggestions:
1. When a user joins, if their email address doesn't match an existing school, immediately prompt them for what their school is. It took me some head scratching to realize I had to add my school.
2. When I try to join a school, don't give me an error saying "fill out your profile first", let me fill out the profile at that time and show my school as selected. This part confused me.
3. Your form validation must die! I put in Dec. 2008 for graduation and then it spit back "must be 4 characters", consider putting something in parentheses to let me know this and shrink the width of the field.
4. Consider letting folks add links to their personal homepages, facebook or linked in profiles.
Good idea, I only point all this out because I like it enough to care.
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#13Earlier 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?
I just graduated. I don't think you're going to hurt anyone's feelings if you accept any email address and let folks specify their school. This is a great idea though and I hope it gets use.
I don't think you're going to hurt anyone's feelings if you accept any email address and let folks specify their school
Agreed. I attend a Jr. College that doesn't give email accounts to its students (or if it does, I was never informed).
Please ditch the .edu requirement.
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#14What about a user who is a student or faculty member who prefers an email address without a school-related top domain?
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#15Ugh, privacy issues...
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#16Interesting but I think this would be helpful if I could click the school, view the contents inside it and see which HN handles are associated with this.
For instance, I added "Georgetown University" as my alma mater and wasn't able to see inside the link. (Granted, I'm the first person to join under this school).
I wanted to view New York University since it's right down the block from me and I want to meet more hackers here in in NYC, but I wasn't able to see which HN users attended the school.
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#17Hmmmm. 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.
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#18I tried to add my school, but it says my school already exists. On the main page, my school isn't listed and there is no "+Join" link on any of the schools. WTF?
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#19I tried to add my school, but it says my school already exists. On the main page, my school isn't listed and there is no "+Join" link on any of the schools. WTF?
I get that too. Bug?
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