Visa List (LGBT+ travel rankings)
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Visa List (LGBT+ travel rankings)
A site that helps you find LGBT+ Travel Rankings and Gay Laws
visalist.io#gay travel#lgbt travel rankings#gay laws by country#gay friendly countries
186points
116comments
#306of 3,028 in 2020
Top 11%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
1 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 29 critical, out of 47 comments about the project. Thread score -0.58.
Execution: 0 for, 22 againstDocs: 0 for, 3 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 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
Awesome project, nice UX
From 2 comments
This is such an awesome project! Kudos
herbstein on HNGreat website, really nice UX. Small bug with some of the data -- spot the "undefined"s: "United States has a LGBT+ travel rank of 53 with a total gay travel score of 57. United…
davedx on HN
Objections
Outdated or wrong country facts such as Taiwan, Russia and Algeria
From 3 comments
The data seems pretty out of date for Taiwan. LGBT couples can be married, and stepchildren can be adopted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Taiwan
Benneb on HNSo many fake data on this, ok let's take Algeria as example of course it's not place for gay people but i'm questioning the data let's start by Death Sentence Algeria doesn't…
afroboy on HNAlso, according to International Monetary Fund, Russia is a developing, not developed, country.
onyva on HN
Typos, undefined fields and copy-pasted text
From 4 comments
Personally I'd like to see more information and transparency about how the ratings are calculated and where the data is coming from for me to put faith in the website and…
lawlorino on HNGreat website, really nice UX. Small bug with some of the data -- spot the "undefined"s: "United States has a LGBT+ travel rank of 53 with a total gay travel score of 57. United…
davedx on HNhttps://visalist.io/russia/gay-travel > The main currency is undefined. It's the Russian Rouble (RUB). > the Russian Federation is the formal name of undefined I'm not sure what…
ainar-g on HNIt looks like you have a typo: "civit rights" instead of "civil rights". Where do the numbers come from?
mkl on HN
Rankings ignore regional variation within countries
From 3 comments
There's a bunch of variance of acceptance depending on where exactly you are in the LGBTP+ spectrum, no? For that reason alone it seems like you'd need more granularity on the…
anonnyj on HNLove the idea. Terrible execution. Here's some constructive criticism: The site currently is as useless as listing the average elevation of countries to determine where mountains…
MacsHeadroom on HNhttps://visalist.io/russia/gay-travel > The main currency is undefined. It's the Russian Rouble (RUB). > the Russian Federation is the formal name of undefined I'm not sure what…
ainar-g on HN
Slow scrolling and broken without JavaScript
From 2 comments
looks okay, but this site is very slow for me. takes seconds to scroll... i have the feeling it could be faster.
blondin on HNThe website deliberately breaks if no javascript.
thepangolino on HN
Requests
Show how scores are calculated and where data comes from more prominently
From 3 comments
Personally I'd like to see more information and transparency about how the ratings are calculated and where the data is coming from for me to put faith in the website and…
lawlorino on HNOh, yep I guess it is there. Seems like it could be a little more prominent, since this is basically just their dataset, with some filtering and ads (and a more confusing…
JshWright on HNWhere does the data come from?
pokgak on HN
Add regional or city-level granularity
From 2 comments
Love the idea. Terrible execution. Here's some constructive criticism: The site currently is as useless as listing the average elevation of countries to determine where mountains…
MacsHeadroom on HNInteresting project Does this account for how regional variation within each country? Because even in the UK, peoples attitudes can vary wildly from one town and city to another.
laumars on HN
Better coverage of transgender issues
From 1 comment
Like so many others, these rankings seem to be far more focused on the LGB than the T. Also, the site tells me that I'll get murdered or sentenced to death if I visit a given…
excitedleigh on HN
Questions
What do the percentage scores mean and how are they computed
From 3 comments
Personally I'd like to see more information and transparency about how the ratings are calculated and where the data is coming from for me to put faith in the website and…
lawlorino on HN> Equal Age of Consent: 67% What does this mean? Spartacus has a 1 or 0 (true/false?) in this column.
keanzu on HNCome again? This is pretty much word salad. In the source data, Saudi Arabia is scored as a -2 for locals hostile and France only -1. The percentage is 17% and 33%, respectively.…
catblast on HN
Alternatives named
Spartacus Gay Travel Index
From 2 comments
I got this data from Spartacus. All these numbers are based on data from them https://spartacus.gayguide.travel/blog/spartacus-gay-travel-index/
1hakr on HNYes, he does. It is on the RHS on the "LGBT+ Travel Rankings of the world" page (linked in OP). "This ranking is based on 14 different paramters like civil rights, discrimation…
keanzu on HN
Wikipedia LGBT rights by country
From 2 comments
Here ya go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_by_country_or_territory
learnstats2 on HNThanks! fixed it. I got the data from https://spartacus.gayguide.travel/blog/spartacus-gay-travel-index/ which is also present in wikipedia
1hakr on HN