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Much time has been spent discussing separating different parts of your social life, but the idea of doing it based on \"shared secrets\" is…",{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"2710966","craigmc","Really nice take on the issue of not forcing users to create a \"one-size-fits-all\" online persona (which currently is such a limitation of most social & dating sites). Obviously,…",{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"2711961","jeffchuber","Are you worried at all that people will add things that they aren't interested in - just to see if others are? Curious what you've thought about that, and how you plan to mediate…",{"value":98,"source":83,"evidence":99},"Fun to use and easy to sign up",[100,104,108],{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"2711099","btucker","I like the simplicity of this. Here's your biggest problem I think: I just filled in a bunch of overlaps (which was kind of fun), but that's probably all i'm going to do right…",{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"2711370","eftpotrm","Interesting - signed up, created a few overlaps, will see what happens. Apologies if I'm blind but I couldn't see an easy way to see who matched overlaps? Could be useful to do a…",{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"2710993","8dot5by11","Just signed up. Looks like an interesting concept. Just a thought, but why not hide the overlaps I've already added? Or as an option. Would definitely help out; less scrolling…",[113,120,127,131],{"value":114,"source":83,"evidence":115},"Overlaps may be lied about or change over time",[116,117],{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},{"id":118,"by":11,"text":119},"2712058","This is why I liken overlaps more to 'tact' than 'privacy'... because you can't prevent people from lying\u002Fmisrepresenting themselves, nor can you prevent people from changing…",{"value":121,"source":83,"evidence":122},"Duplicate overlaps fragment matching",[123,124],{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},{"id":125,"by":11,"text":126},"2712109","Yup, this is definitely a problem that will need solving. 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Or it could be an email reminder.",{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},{"value":164,"source":83,"evidence":165},"Fix dating gender options and settings UI",[166,170],{"id":167,"by":168,"text":169},"2713132","snprbob86","That UI is also has several UX problems: 1) Poor defaults - better to pick \"Choose One\" \u002F NULL instead of misclassifying gender, etc 2) Small widgets, hard to click\u002Fread 3)…",{"id":171,"by":172,"text":173},"2711670","masterzora","I decided to check it out and take a look around and I'm already running into my first issue! It won't let me update my location at all. Running Chrome 12.0.742.100 on Maverick.…",{"value":175,"source":83,"evidence":176},"Import interests from Last.fm",[177],{"id":178,"by":179,"text":180},"2712233","icebraining","Suggestion (for the future): use the Last.fm API to, if the user is interested, link his\u002Fher profile to overlap.me. 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