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Show HN: My weekend project, Board game reservations
- CocaKoala 12y agoLooks interesting. I gave it my zip code (95051) and it returned two conventions: one in Burlingame, which is ~25 miles away. That's reasonable. The other is in "Columbus"; all I know is that it's ~2000 miles away. I'm assuming that's Columbus, Ohio, although I haven't checked. Regardless, I'd rather see one result that I might possible go to than two results where one of them is literally thousands of miles away; you might consider tweaking how you determine events to be relevant to users.
- Macsenour 12y agoThanks for the comment. My guess is that you didn't click one of the miles boxes. It defaults to 3000 miles, which I know is not reasonable, but that way you can see all the conventions. Yes, right now there are only 2... Again, thanks for trying it out.
- CocaKoala 12y agoAh, that's exactly what happened. Perhaps default to something like 25 miles, and then include a selection for "All"? I'm definitely not somebody who's well-versed in UX stuff, but that might help give people intended behavior more easily. I'd try out the rest of it but I actually don't remember my twitter account information. Sorry! Edit: I don't know if this is a result of how users create events or not, but it would be useful to include some more specific data about locations. I happen to know that there's a town called Burlingame around 20 miles north of me, but I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of however many Columbuses there are; I know there's one in Ohio (i think) but there could easily be others, and if you told me that there's a Columbus, TN or Columbus, WI and that it was about 2000 miles away, I'd say "Sure; I could believe that".
- Macsenour 12y agoFair point. Again, thanks for the comment. I'm going to that con in Burlingame this weekend, I'm sure there will be many more suggestions.