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Observation: I'm sitting in my office in Orland Park, Illinois using my relatively new Macbook Pro. I followed the link and, as soon as I arrived at the page,
by zupreme 11y ago
Observation: I'm sitting in my office in Orland Park, Illinois using my relatively new Macbook Pro. I followed the link and, as soon as I arrived at the page, I saw a dialog to choose my location. About a second later these choices vanished, the page assumed that I was Indianapolis, and I was shown a list of events in Indianapolis.
Since I got no popup asking for permission to share my location, I assume that you are using my IP address to geolocate me, and while that is definitely not a very accurate way to geolocate, its accurate enough to place me at least within one town of my actual location.
Verdict: You should work on your geolocation method immediately, or you should disable the feature for end-users until you have time to focus on it fully.
- pat-jay 11y agoUsually, the IP stuff is used as a fallback to avoid the site to show nothing... It seems like you're one of the unfortunate .1% where the geolocation stuff didn't work properly right away (or disabled in browser?). And we're working on that, thx :) Ah, and in an emergency there's the third option: manual selection via the position page. With which you can also search around what's going in any other city you like - worldwide, or your own ;)
- dexterdog 11y agoIt put me in Boston on my phone which was on a local hotspot in town. Then when I got home I tried my browser and it put my about 50 miles away. With ipinfo.com my IP address comes up within a few hundred feet of my house so it should be working. So that's 2/2 on whiffs.