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Nice website. Would love to check it out but I don't use Facebook. I really don't understand why websites don't have alternative means of creating an account.
by yequalsx 14y ago
Nice website. Would love to check it out but I don't use Facebook. I really don't understand why websites don't have alternative means of creating an account.
It's worth considering that people who are more likely to use such a site might be more introverted than the average person and perhaps less likely to have a Facebook account.
- chewxy 14y agoWe actually target INTJ and INTP people for Strangers for Dinner. And yes, we're looking to move away from Facebook, but right now, Facebook has a wealth of information about a user. Our system can make heuristic guesses (and validate that you're a real person) about your interests by using Facebook, so it's gonna be difficult to replace for the time being. Sorry about your non-experience with SfD
- benmccann 14y agoWhy target INTJ and INTP? Do you do anything on the site to verify the personality type? I thought it was a bit weird you used Pyongyang as the default. If you had picked any other foreign city I would have assumed it was a foreign website and given up then. Probably better to leave blank (I had to delete Pyongyang, so this would have saved me typing) or fill in using IP geolocation.
- chewxy 14y agono we don't verify personality types. That'd be creepy. I started SfD for a personal reason (in fact I posted it here at HN first saying I didn't have friends). People like me would be my target audience, I decided. Them extroverts have enough friends already. I used Pyongyang as a form of negging. The idea was to use repugnance to force people to change the form. There is a IP geolocation version coming out really soon (as well as other features)