HackerNewsers
Consumer and social
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SHOW HN2010
221points
111comments
#5of 370 in 2010
Top 2%of 2010 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
18 positive, 19 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 17 critical, out of 59 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Execution: 4 for, 7 againstDesign: 2 for, 6 againstIdea: 3 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Smooth registration and account verification
From 2 comments
Very cool! I really liked the registration process, very smooth. I also like that you made it clear that I could delete my account if I wanted on the front page, before…
shaddi on HNGreat work, especially for 1 afternoon/day, and I like the account verification process too - it's quick and effective. Look forward to meeting more HNers via your site!
limist on HN
Impressive for an afternoon's work
From 2 comments
Great work, especially for 1 afternoon/day, and I like the account verification process too - it's quick and effective. Look forward to meeting more HNers via your site!
limist on HNSo what's the technology behind your website ? For an afternoon only, that's quite a nice job. Edit: didn't see the FAQ (Yii PHP framework)
damienfir on HN
Useful way to find nearby hackers
From 2 comments
Pretty awesome, I signed up. Can you show up distance even in km? miles don't give much information to me. May be you can choose from imperial units and standard ones by people…
pietrofmaggi on HNThis is pretty awesome. When this site fills out it will be interesting to see what the actual demographics of the site are.
ezrider4428 on HN
Objections
Site slow or down under load
From 1 comment
Looks like HN killed HackerNewsers. Anyone else having trouble getting to the site? You might look at a beefier server and adding a proxy in front of Apache.
cwilson on HN
Map and search UI confusing
From 2 comments
When searching for people near me, I try clicking on the blue spots in the map, and I expect a list of people in the area to come up, or the list below to change. Is that not the…
perplexes on HNIt's confusing to have the search check boxes below the registration section like it is now; it makes it seem that the check boxes are part of the profile one is filling out. I…
Chirael on HN
Bugs in registration and display
From 3 comments
This looks cool, I'm way into this. Unfortunately didn't work for me and I didn't do anything particularly screwy: > CDbCommand failed to execute the SQL statement:…
lionhearted on HNI got this error while registering on your site. I am concerned after seeing this. Sorry, we screwed up Looks it looks like i've lost your password, hopefully the bug that is…
vkdelta on HNI get htmlspecialchars() [function.htmlspecialchars]: Invalid multibyte sequence in argument when trying to access the homepage? http://i.imgur.com/K390I.jpg
bambax on HN
Requests
Multiple locations per user
From 1 comment
As a student, I move between two places a lot. I would guess this is fairly common among HNers. Being able to give multiple locations might be worthwhile. (For now I gave my uni…
philh on HN
Distance units in km for non-US users
From 1 comment
Pretty awesome, I signed up. Can you show up distance even in km? miles don't give much information to me. May be you can choose from imperial units and standard ones by people…
pietrofmaggi on HN
Finer location granularity like zip code
From 1 comment
My only suggestion might be to add some finer granularity to location. I zoom into Boston and just see one blob - when it might be nice to see zip-code level granularity. I try…
sharpemt on HN
Show karma account age
From 1 comment
Suggestion - add to the karma listing how long someone has been registered with HN. Absolute Karma is less use than dK/dt. Someone may have Karma 100, but only been registered…
RiderOfGiraffes on HN
Questions
Will it be integrated into official HN site?
From 1 comment
It's nicely done, no arguing with that. I just sort of wish PG would find a way to incorporate this or something like it into the official site. Or something along those lines...
davidw on HN
How is the password stored?
From 2 comments
One point I'd like to make, don't use the same password for this as you do for HN. Now I don't think anything bad is likely to come of this it's just not a great idea thats…
dublinclontarf on HNA random salt? Are you sure about that?
pinksoda on HN
Alternatives named
hackrtrackr
From 1 comment
This has been done before here: http://www.hackrtrackr.com
david927 on HN
djangopeople.net
From 1 comment
BTW, do you have plans to integrate some geocoding/geonames capability? And how about having a map overview like, http://djangopeople.net/
limist on HN