mindviews comments on Recent site changes - Less Wrong

48 Post author: matt 24 June 2011 03:50AM

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Comment author: mindviews 24 June 2011 04:48:59AM 2 points [-]

First off, let me say thank you for all the work that's gone into the site update by everyone involved! The three changes I like most are the new header design (especially the clear separation between Main and Discussion - the old menu was too cluttered), the nearby meetup section, and the expanding karma bubbles.

I had one question about how the nearby meetup list and Location. Is the meetup list supposed to sort by location somehow? If so, what do I need to put in my location? Thanks!

Comment author: matt 24 June 2011 05:17:27AM 3 points [-]

It should be locating you by your IP address and showing the 5 nearest meetups from those scheduled over the next 14 days. We think it's broken. We intend (implementation unscheduled) to use the location you enter in your preferences if you have supplied one.

Comment author: Yurifury 24 June 2011 01:55:50PM *  0 points [-]

Could you use location services to determine their location?

For people who have not explicitly set a location, a button is displayed. When it is clicked, it can ask the browser for location data, and determine their suburb/country by using a service like this.

Comment author: Emile 24 June 2011 08:29:34AM 0 points [-]

If the implementation is simpler, maybe a tag-based watchlist would be better - you could pick a list of tags to watch, meetups would be tagged by continent/county/city (whatever makes the most sense), and you could edit the list of tags you watch. OK, maybe that would be more complicated. Just brainstorming :P