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Show HN: It's all about skills. Help out a fellow hacker with some feedback

by dimasf on 6/15/16, 9:59 PM with 2 comments

  • by Normal_gaussian on 6/15/16, 10:49 PM

    Firstly using the full name and not the username in the "Newest Members" is just not cool. This should definitely be configurable in profile (first name, first & last, username). You are tying a location to the name and age, which is almost certainly uniquely identifiable.

    That aside

    Initial search - missing climbing / bouldering

    read the text below, assumed if I created an account I could add them into the system, instead found that I could not add it full stop! I have to use some weird feedback form after my account creation has finished. When I try and use this form I get to submit one (one!) skill.

    I have a handful of hobbies, the one tied to the account is not one I want to meet people to do (but had to enter one to proceed) and the ones I want to add aren't there yet.

    /rant

    Suggestions:

    Allow adding "unofficial" skills, if they are accepted they become official and match you

    Allow removing skills (I may try something and then give up on it)

    Do force me to add a skill in signup, don't limit it to just one.

    Tell me how many people are using the platform in my area, tell me how many have my interests

    Make sharing easy. I may share based on location (lets get this popular in <city>), skill (in the bouldering chats I am in), or friends (this is cool). Before "proper" integration simply dropping that text allows copy paste of well written invites.

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    On the whole I like it, this is something I really want to use. Very good quality already, expected UX problems. I understand they may take a while to fix as they reach through to the backend as well as affecting the flow.

    Though get the names sorted please (I don't mind matches, just not the web please)