Hacker news directory - find hackers at your school

Re:Hacker news directory - find hackers at your school by jmtame on Friday January 23, 2009 @02:07PM (#446849)

I don't mean to limit it to us schools only, I just threw this together last Saturday. How do you suggest I make this work for all hackers at all schools?

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Re:Hacker news directory - find hackers at your school by raffi on Friday January 23, 2009 @02:51PM (#446925)

I just graduated. I don't think you're going to hurt anyone's feelings if you accept any email address and let folks specify their school. This is a great idea though and I hope it gets use.

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Re:Hacker news directory - find hackers at your school by dmpayton on Friday January 23, 2009 @02:59PM (#446945)

I don't think you're going to hurt anyone's feelings if you accept any email address and let folks specify their school

Agreed. I attend a Jr. College that doesn't give email accounts to its students (or if it does, I was never informed).

Please ditch the .edu requirement.

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Re:Hacker news directory - find hackers at your school by orib on Saturday January 24, 2009 @12:42AM (#447803)

Allow any email address.

I'm at mcmaster, which has a mcmaster.ca address. I don't think it's possible to match on email address to allow all schools, so just ask for the school that someone attends. If you let some non-students through, what does it matter?

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Re:Hacker news directory - find hackers at your school by pmjordan on Friday January 23, 2009 @07:18PM (#447457)

Matching *.ac.?? will enable a lot of European schools and universities. Not all cctlds have the .ac second-level domain though. Some countries have 3-letter second-level domains, so I have no idea whether .edu.[CC] exists anywhere.

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Re:Hacker news directory - find hackers at your school by paulgb on Friday January 23, 2009 @02:20PM (#446866)

Unfortunately, not all countries have a standard TLD for schools. I think the only way around it is with a whitelist of domains, but I'm not sure where the list would come from. Maybe someone has created it already? Either that, or use the facebook API.

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Re:Hacker news directory - find hackers at your school by silencio on Friday January 23, 2009 @04:42PM (#447149)

Even facebook in the beginning took that approach by limiting the schools you could sign up for.

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Re:Hacker news directory - find hackers at your school by arjunb on Saturday January 24, 2009 @02:49PM (#448337)

yeah, you can use facebook connect to get the school networks associated to a user. might help simplify your reg process.

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