Comment by CM30

Comment by CM30 6 days ago

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Wait, are there really 36 Hacker News users in North Korea? The map just refreshes if I check that, but it seems kinda unbelievable given how isolated the country is and how heavily monitored the folks living there are.

Either way, had a bit of trouble adding myself due to the tool expecting this data to be the only thing in the user's bio. Could it be updated to check if the text exists anywhere at all? Because quite a few people here will want to discuss their side projects and startups first, not start off with a random block of tags.

sirobg 6 days ago

> 36 Hacker News users in North Korea

Some hacker was trolling and moving people there. Should be fixed now!

> due to the tool expecting this data to be the only thing in the user's bio

Shouldn't be the case! Seems it's good for you now. If not, don't hesitate to share more details.

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  • Aachen 5 days ago

    When I now click on Pyongyang, it just reloads the page and doesn't show the 1 hacker that the mouseover said would be there. URL remains meet.hn without path. Other cities work fine (Firefox)

    Edit: Same issue for <s style="direction:35deg;">L</s>ódź in Poland. The URL does actually change briefly but then the page reloads and redirects back to the homepage. And this made me notice the Krákow person hasn't made it onto the page still :(

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GTP 6 days ago

I was able to add myself even though I have another unrelated sentence in my bio. But I think the tool fails to show my interests.

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  • CM30 6 days ago

    Hmm perhaps it fails with two or more lines at the start of the user bio? I had an extra paragraph or two of text before.

    But maybe it's only looking for a certain number of lines and cutting off anything after that, hence why the interests don't show up for you and the tool fails for anyone with a lot of text before the block.

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  • sirobg 6 days ago

    Sorry for that, should be fixed now!

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