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For me the biggest issue is to connect with people. Having a some form of opt-in automatic email chain or private chat for people located in the same city to d

For me the biggest issue is to connect with people. Having a some form of opt-in automatic email chain or private chat for people located in the same city to discuss and connect would be great.

sirobg 2y ago
> For me the biggest issue is to connect with people Could you elaborate? what is painful to you? > automatic email chain or private chat Any more ideas about that? I think it's similar to the suggestion I made in the post about creating Telegram channels for each location, but I'm not sure. Also, someone already said they wouldn't join a Telegram channel and would prefer Signal. That really illustrates the kind of challenges I'm facing in trying to bring the HN community together.
- doruk101 2y ago
  > Could you elaborate? what is painful to you? People put one or many links to their accounts. Unless there is a email or an actual social media, it is very hard to pick one of these as a way of connecting people. For example I saw a lot of accounts with just github (same goes with some of the social medias), I am not sure what to do outside of following it. I would assume there is also a understandable inertia to put your own social account or email directly here. > Any more ideas about that? Email-chain would be the easiest. I wouldn't rely on a third party service like Telegram or Signal directly as that would mean losing a lot of people because as you realised it is hard to convince everyone to agree on Apples to Oranges. One thing that could also work is creating a some form of very simple forum board like interface on the website directly for people to post/comment their invitation/willingness to meet up or how they wish to be contacted about meeting up (maybe with a bit information about what they expect or what you can expect). It could function like a Facebook Group in a way which served a similar purpose in past. There could also be a Country/Nation board that will also share same posts as your city so more people can see them. If you would like to discuss in more detail, you can send me a email.
  - sirobg 2y ago
    A lot of good points here, thanks a lot! > Email-chain would be the easiest. It would require users to share their emails to meet.hn, am I right? > creating a some form of very simple forum board Might be a good idea as well. It would require more work and maintenance but could be valuable.
    - glenneroo 2y ago
      Possibly unpopular here but how about a Discord server with a channel for every city? When you join Discord, a bot could ask which cities you want to join (allowing people who travel to join multiple cities, but maybe limit it to some sane number to prevent bots from trawling everything).
- morkalork 2y ago
  Haha and here I was going to suggest a discord channel for each location. I checked out the two cities I've worked in and was pleasantly surprised by the number of brave people who added their LinkedIn accounts, and doubly so when seeing some old colleagues as mutuals. Not sure I'd want to add meet.hn to my main, maybe make a "real me alt" specifically for that. I wonder if others have done the same since it's a lot of users with old accounts and no comment histories.
shreddit 2y ago
I made hn-pm.me exactly for that. You can sign up with your hn username only, no email required. You have to put a random key into your profile during signup, but you can remove it later.

For me the biggest issue is to connect with people. Having a some form of opt-in automatic email chain or private chat for people located in the same city to discuss and connect would be great.

sirobg 2y ago

> For me the biggest issue is to connect with people Could you elaborate? what is painful to you? > automatic email chain or private chat Any more ideas about that? I think it's similar to the suggestion I made in the post about creating Telegram channels for each location, but I'm not sure. Also, someone already said they wouldn't join a Telegram channel and would prefer Signal. That really illustrates the kind of challenges I'm facing in trying to bring the HN community together.

doruk101 2y ago
> Could you elaborate? what is painful to you? People put one or many links to their accounts. Unless there is a email or an actual social media, it is very hard to pick one of these as a way of connecting people. For example I saw a lot of accounts with just github (same goes with some of the social medias), I am not sure what to do outside of following it. I would assume there is also a understandable inertia to put your own social account or email directly here. > Any more ideas about that? Email-chain would be the easiest. I wouldn't rely on a third party service like Telegram or Signal directly as that would mean losing a lot of people because as you realised it is hard to convince everyone to agree on Apples to Oranges. One thing that could also work is creating a some form of very simple forum board like interface on the website directly for people to post/comment their invitation/willingness to meet up or how they wish to be contacted about meeting up (maybe with a bit information about what they expect or what you can expect). It could function like a Facebook Group in a way which served a similar purpose in past. There could also be a Country/Nation board that will also share same posts as your city so more people can see them. If you would like to discuss in more detail, you can send me a email.
- sirobg 2y ago
  A lot of good points here, thanks a lot! > Email-chain would be the easiest. It would require users to share their emails to meet.hn, am I right? > creating a some form of very simple forum board Might be a good idea as well. It would require more work and maintenance but could be valuable.
  - glenneroo 2y ago
    Possibly unpopular here but how about a Discord server with a channel for every city? When you join Discord, a bot could ask which cities you want to join (allowing people who travel to join multiple cities, but maybe limit it to some sane number to prevent bots from trawling everything).
morkalork 2y ago
Haha and here I was going to suggest a discord channel for each location. I checked out the two cities I've worked in and was pleasantly surprised by the number of brave people who added their LinkedIn accounts, and doubly so when seeing some old colleagues as mutuals. Not sure I'd want to add meet.hn to my main, maybe make a "real me alt" specifically for that. I wonder if others have done the same since it's a lot of users with old accounts and no comment histories.

shreddit 2y ago

I made hn-pm.me exactly for that. You can sign up with your hn username only, no email required. You have to put a random key into your profile during signup, but you can remove it later.