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Re:Offpeak.io helps you avoid peak season to book the cheape... by r3dey3 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @12:49PM (#14921208)
Horribly broken url management.... selecting a city replaces the home page in history so you can't use the browser back button.

Plus the search recommends locations nowhere close to the search term... and has like 15 total destinations.

Re:Offpeak.io helps you avoid peak season to book the cheape... by aesthetics1 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @02:35PM (#14922374)
I noticed this as well. If you poke around, you can see that only 53 cities are currently available. I tried "Portland" and received "Orlando" as a suggestion. Looks like it uses some sort of half-baked search algorithm that looks for a close match, but does not work so well.
Re:Offpeak.io helps you avoid peak season to book the cheape... by fireworks10 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @03:36PM (#14923012)
Sorry about that. You're right, we need to work on our autocomplete algo and set a fallback for unavailable cities.

I will add Portland to our next batch of cities we add and message you when it's up.

Re:Offpeak.io helps you avoid peak season to book the cheape... by fireworks10 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @03:10PM (#14922753)
Thanks for the feedback.

We fixed the back-button issue. We currently have only 53 cities during this beta, and are aiming to add a ton more soon.

And you are right, the autocomplete algo needs a bit more work and a fallback for missing cities. We're on it.

Re:Offpeak.io helps you avoid peak season to book the cheape... by divenorth on Thursday August 03, 2017 @03:10PM (#14922757)
Came here to say the exact same thing. I tried typing in Montreal and it took me to Seoul. Really frustrating actually.
Re:Offpeak.io helps you avoid peak season to book the cheape... by fireworks10 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @03:16PM (#14922821)
Sorry about that. We need to work on a fallback for the autocomplete.

Also, I will add Montreal to our next batch of cities we add and message you when it's up.

Re:Offpeak.io helps you avoid peak season to book the cheape... by divenorth on Saturday August 05, 2017 @04:27PM (#14937724)
It would make more sense to be able to select from a list of available cities instead of a broken auto complete.