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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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So this has been talked about for years on here, but when will the site take notice and change the rubbish location settings on here?
I just did a search for Meets/events tonight in the East Mids, and only 7 of them out of an entire 2 full pages of people are even in the East Midlands.
It's ridiculous. Derby, Nottingham, Chesterfield, Sheffield, Leicester, Leeds etc - these places are nowhere near the East Midlands! It also picks up places in Essex as well - the region search for meetings is useless.
Sort it out. |
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We live in Warwick , Warwickshire but local searches bring up people 120 plus miles to the north but no one 10 miles down the road .
If we change search areas then we end up with people 100 miles south of us .
Smaller search areas woul be good please. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It is very outdated now and geographical areas are ridiculous when looking for local meets.
It would be so much more practical if all counties were listed and you could pick and choose the ones you wanted. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"You would think it would be pretty simple to change - the site admins have consistently ignored it though for years now"
We don't know that it has been ignored but for sure nothing has changed. The wheels turn plenty slow here! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"You would think it would be pretty simple to change - the site admins have consistently ignored it though for years now
We don't know that it has been ignored but for sure nothing has changed. The wheels turn plenty slow here!"
As I just said, this very subject has been going on on here for literally years - which means it's roundly ignored. |
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Colchester is classed as the East Midlands, yet we are only 50 miles from London, nip 15 miles down the road to Chelmsford and that is classed as the South East.
I looked on the meets page and we could have a meet that night if we were prepared to travel 200 miles.
As people say, it needs sorting but it seems that our £5 every 60 days is better spent elsewhere, where elsewhere is, I have no idea. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Better spent elsewhere seems to be on things like the 'Fab' photos pages, which to me is completely pointless.
This site is now being used as a social media platform for a lot of people which I can only think the site owners see as a bigger revenue stream than anything else. The contact/meeting element is secondary now.
If they overhauled the crappy location/search system this site would be a lot better for those of us that want to use it for it's original purpose.
Every 'improvement' in recent years has been based around the photograph aspect of the site. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Better spent elsewhere seems to be on things like the 'Fab' photos pages, which to me is completely pointless.
This site is now being used as a social media platform for a lot of people which I can only think the site owners see as a bigger revenue stream than anything else. The contact/meeting element is secondary now.
If they overhauled the crappy location/search system this site would be a lot better for those of us that want to use it for it's original purpose.
Every 'improvement' in recent years has been based around the photograph aspect of the site."
 has been pointed out on many threads. Admin never reply to confirm or deny their plans or motives. A list of what improvements they are thinking of working or what they are working on would help. |
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But that only works partly- yes it's fine for meet me today, but does not work at all for meets & events tomorrow, Sunday, Monday............... hence an "East Anglia" option would be much better.
It might even recruit more people to the site, it is noticeable there are few new members in this region, the "new in the last 5 days" option around here is usually a pretty empty search. |
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".... hence an "East Anglia" option would be much better."
ok see where you are coming from , a postcode search for Meets/events tonight. sounds an easy thing to set up, will give it a year and see if anything changes..  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"But that only works partly- yes it's fine for meet me today, but does not work at all for meets & events tomorrow, Sunday, Monday............... hence an "East Anglia" option would be much better.
It might even recruit more people to the site, it is noticeable there are few new members in this region, the "new in the last 5 days" option around here is usually a pretty empty search."
Exactly this. It's good to finally have some people coming on this thread as back-up for a change.
This isn't the first time I've moaned about it but still no site feedback in here...isn't this the site feedback forum?? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I don’t thibk it’s just east anglia that has an issue...
I’m northampton and it shows as West Midlands... it’s not... it’s easy :/ "
True - East Anglia is the worst region though because it quite literally doesn't exist on this site.
Essex? Sheffield? Derby? Nowhere near East Anglia! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I don’t thibk it’s just east anglia that has an issue...
I’m northampton and it shows as West Midlands... it’s not... it’s easy :/
True - East Anglia is the worst region though because it quite literally doesn't exist on this site.
Essex? Sheffield? Derby? Nowhere near East Anglia!"
I always thought essex was east Anglia |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I don’t thibk it’s just east anglia that has an issue...
I’m northampton and it shows as West Midlands... it’s not... it’s easy :/
True - East Anglia is the worst region though because it quite literally doesn't exist on this site.
Essex? Sheffield? Derby? Nowhere near East Anglia!
I always thought essex was east Anglia "
Essex is in the south east.
If I do a search on here using the East Midlands area, I get Yorkshire, Essex, Leicestershire! |
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To be fair, even county based searches could be highly inaccurate. If you live near the border of a county, then there will be people a few miles away in a different county but others hundreds of miles away in the same county.
A "within 25 miles" type of area would be better, but probably require paying for Google location services or something similar.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Has it actually been changed now?
I am Chelmsford - Colchester and browsing for F meets looking for M on Thursday 26 th Apr.
All I find in East Midlands is Leicester / Nottingham / Derby etc. No way I can get there from my work in London.
That's bad ... BUT ?it looks to be fixed so that's good ?  .  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I don’t thibk it’s just east anglia that has an issue...
I’m northampton and it shows as West Midlands... it’s not... it’s easy :/
True - East Anglia is the worst region though because it quite literally doesn't exist on this site.
Essex? Sheffield? Derby? Nowhere near East Anglia!"
East Anglia is the worst region in many ways! So difficult to get to and from and very sparsely populated (with the kind of people I'd like to meet, anyway) |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I don’t thibk it’s just east anglia that has an issue...
I’m northampton and it shows as West Midlands... it’s not... it’s easy :/
True - East Anglia is the worst region though because it quite literally doesn't exist on this site.
Essex? Sheffield? Derby? Nowhere near East Anglia!
East Anglia is the worst region in many ways! So difficult to get to and from and very sparsely populated (with the kind of people I'd like to meet, anyway) "
Absolutely.
I haven't lived here long (I'm a Londoner) and you're absolutely right, it's miles to anyone from the Norwich area. Very thin on the ground in terms of the type of people I'm used to as well. Plus people are oddly rude and unfriendly round here, at least on here anyway. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We’re hidden , seek & you shall find but we’re very elusive creatures here in & around the Norwich area but once found my what beautiful creatures we are  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I don’t thibk it’s just east anglia that has an issue...
I’m northampton and it shows as West Midlands... it’s not... it’s easy :/
True - East Anglia is the worst region though because it quite literally doesn't exist on this site.
Essex? Sheffield? Derby? Nowhere near East Anglia!
East Anglia is the worst region in many ways! So difficult to get to and from and very sparsely populated (with the kind of people I'd like to meet, anyway)
Absolutely.
I haven't lived here long (I'm a Londoner) and you're absolutely right, it's miles to anyone from the Norwich area. Very thin on the ground in terms of the type of people I'm used to as well. Plus people are oddly rude and unfriendly round here, at least on here anyway."
As a fellow Londoner, I completely agree! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"We’re hidden , seek & you shall find but we’re very elusive creatures here in & around the Norwich area but once found my what beautiful creatures we are "
This is more about the crappy search function on here, than it is about how to find people in the area. There is quite literally no option to search for people in East Anglia. |
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By *rx1Couple
over a year ago
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We totally agree. We are in North Hertfordshire. Lots of people say Hertfordshire is in East Anglia.
Currently on here we come under South East.
So when we do put a 'Meet Today' on we have to do it in 3 areas
East Midlands to hopefully catch someones eye in maybe Colchester / Cambridge etc (an hours drive)
South East
fairly locally, but that also gets Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, South East Essex.
Greater London
Again 20mins south down the A1 or South London
Browsing is a bit easier as you can stipulate distance in mileage |
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By *lyreelMan
over a year ago
King's lynn |
Agreed, it’s not as if Fabswingers can not afford it. So why can they not fix this issue? No one ever from Fab acknowledges the fact that we are complaining or does anything about it.
Some transparency would be nice. |
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"Do you think if enough of us paying users ask for our region (East Anglia) to be included then someone, somewhere, might take the trouble to answer?
I'm fed up with being 'East Midlands'!"
Maybe, but don't hold your breath darling. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Do you think if enough of us paying users ask for our region (East Anglia) to be included then someone, somewhere, might take the trouble to answer?
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No. |
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By *lyreelMan
over a year ago
King's lynn |
Fabswingers... moderators, whoever may read this thread, please do something about the situation.
Frankly the people search and areas is crap.
Scotland is a big place, East Anglia does not go from Derby to Southampton, let’s get it sorted.
Answers please, stop hiding and let’s develop the site into a fantastic site where we can actually find people close by. |
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By *j_markCouple
over a year ago
Forum Mod Totteridge/Whetstone |
The plan is to remove the regions since they are largely nonsense (and, as has been spotted, East Anglia is missing)
Most folks use the advanced search on which this has already happened. The regions on profile will be removed. If people want to add their general location the the "location" which says their town/city or whatever, then they'll be free to do that.
The meets system will change to work like the advanced search via radius on location/postcode.
If you're still using the old/legacy search to search profiles (which uses regions) then your best bet is to move over to the new style .
We hope to have an updates on the meets system in the not too distant future.
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By *lyreelMan
over a year ago
King's lynn |
Thank you Admin, it’s good your on the case!!
East Anglia has gone and is encompassed by East Midlands now but this is an even bigger area. So this doesn’t help.
The Postcode search is okay if you know a Postcode! I don’t know any others apart from my own, that’s why we still need a more accurate location search I think.
Thanks again for your reply. |
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By *j_markCouple
over a year ago
Forum Mod Totteridge/Whetstone |
"I don’t know any others apart from my own, that’s why we still need a more accurate location search I think.
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You don't need to know a postcode, most city/town names will work
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By *lyreelMan
over a year ago
King's lynn |
So what about when you are searching in the Meets and Events? It is such a huge area that the search covers, it’s not possible to break it down to a local named or postcode search? Have a look and see the options given, East Midlands covers Derbyshire to sometimes Southampton! Scotland is one search! 300 miles can be between meets. |
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By *j_markCouple
over a year ago
Forum Mod Totteridge/Whetstone |
"So what about when you are searching in the Meets and Events? It is such a huge area that the search covers, it’s not possible to break it down to a local named or postcode search? Have a look and see the options given, East Midlands covers Derbyshire to sometimes Southampton! Scotland is one search! 300 miles can be between meets. "
As we say above, this will be replaced by a radius based system (just like advanced search). The current system, as many have pointed out, isn't fit for purpose.
Admin x |
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By *lyreelMan
over a year ago
King's lynn |
"Well have we all given up or are we still beating the EA Drum.... 
The Drums have been answered, Big Admin chief has spoken. He says when new Sun shines after many Moons new pathway will be formed, for all to follow  "
Haha, this is one of the funniest replies , legend!!! |
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By *utie91Woman
over a year ago
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"So what about when you are searching in the Meets and Events? It is such a huge area that the search covers, it’s not possible to break it down to a local named or postcode search? Have a look and see the options given, East Midlands covers Derbyshire to sometimes Southampton! Scotland is one search! 300 miles can be between meets.
As we say above, this will be replaced by a radius based system (just like advanced search). The current system, as many have pointed out, isn't fit for purpose.
Admin x"
Maybe adding search by county instead??
Might be helpful |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Well have we all given up or are we still beating the EA Drum....
The Drums have been answered, Big Admin chief has spoken. He says when new Sun shines after many Moons new pathway will be formed, for all to follow "
Will be impressed when it happens, thanks in anticipation. |
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"So what about when you are searching in the Meets and Events? It is such a huge area that the search covers, it’s not possible to break it down to a local named or postcode search? Have a look and see the options given, East Midlands covers Derbyshire to sometimes Southampton! Scotland is one search! 300 miles can be between meets.
As we say above, this will be replaced by a radius based system (just like advanced search). The current system, as many have pointed out, isn't fit for purpose.
Admin x"
You said this 6 years ago, I know changing code can be complex but your pushing it here |
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"So this has been talked about for years on here, but when will the site take notice and change the rubbish location settings on here?
I just did a search for Meets/events tonight in the East Mids, and only 7 of them out of an entire 2 full pages of people are even in the East Midlands.
It's ridiculous. Derby, Nottingham, Chesterfield, Sheffield, Leicester, Leeds etc - these places are nowhere near the East Midlands! It also picks up places in Essex as well - the region search for meetings is useless.
Sort it out."
Yup we're in Essex and have the same problem. We have to post in either East Midlands or London... both of which can pick up an area over 100 miles from where we actually are. There's been loads of requests/suggestions over the years for the regions to be split but still nothing so sad   why cant be have more options. ie. East Anglia, Essex.. it must be same for up north - big areas covered over 100s of miles. |
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