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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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When searching the meets or profiles using the options (South East for example), I’m often provided a search return of meets/profiles that are quite some distance away.
I believe that the areas are too general and having a more focused area search would help site members.
Could we have the search (and maybe profile location) a lot more selective, say by county?
I did suggest this a couple of years ago and it had much support from other users so I am surprised that the site creators never took it on board.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Fed up with the number of times this has been suggested. The areas are way too large. East Midlands stretches from South Yorkshire to the outskirts of London. I suspect though there are technical difficulties because all profiles will have selected these larger areas initially and its likely that there's not a guarantee field on the form that everyone filled in to make it possible to resort without missing people. Unless they introduces a New field ie post code or county in addition to the current ones and told everyone to amend their profiles and fill in this new field that could then be used to resort and redefine the areas. I suspect that theres too much advances coding involved making outing it on the "too difficult" category. |
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Agreed. In the chat room there are more specific area rooms so why can't they do the same for profiles? E.g. East Anglia chat room but closest thing is east midlands which is too large an area! |
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A more refined search area isn't going to generate more meets, it's only going to show you less meets as there's a narrower filter to put them in.
With the way things stand at least you can scroll and see what's going on around you, even if that is a 4 hour drive away for some. But the meets closest to you should be in that list.
If anything I'd prefer a distance based search based on my location as I currently have 3 "areas" I could meet with under an hours drive away (South West, South East and Wales). But as a lot of people are visiting places and put a meet up they don't know or want to advertise their exact location, so this wouldn't work either.
I'm happy with the current system. It works well enough.  |
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"County would be a great idea"
it depends on the county. We could be in Bath and North East Somerset in 10 minutes, Wiltshire in the same, South Glos in 40 minutes, Bristol in 50 minutes but is would take two hours to get to the furthest reaches of Somerset, the county in which we live.
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For profiles, you can search by postcode and enter any distance, so that is completely flexible. And if you check the meets box, it will filter only those looking to meet today. Am i missing something? |
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"For profiles, you can search by postcode and enter any distance, so that is completely flexible. And if you check the meets box, it will filter only those looking to meet today. Am i missing something?"
I was thinking same, and there is also the who is near option too.
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