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Pen & Paper Roleplaying Central => Pen and Paper Roleplaying Games (RPGs) Discussion => Topic started by: dsfd re 34rewfe 32 on March 18, 2007, 08:21:16 AM

Title: Nearby Gamers Website
Post by: dsfd re 34rewfe 32 on March 18, 2007, 08:21:16 AM
Here's a new resource which needs a lot more gamers to sign up:

Nearby Gamers (http://nearbygamers.com/)
Title: Nearby Gamers Website
Post by: Zachary The First on March 18, 2007, 08:59:42 AM
Good stuff.  I signed up for my area...
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Post by: Blue Devil on March 18, 2007, 07:58:35 PM
Quote from: the BromgrevHere's a new resource which needs a lot more gamers to sign up:

Nearby Gamers (http://nearbygamers.com/)

Nice idea but the site is a bit too cluttered.  May want to find a way to unclutter it.
Title: Nearby Gamers Website
Post by: Dr Rotwang! on March 18, 2007, 10:41:35 PM
Also needs a way to make me sow up in Indiana and not Arizona.
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Post by: James J Skach on March 18, 2007, 11:00:38 PM
Where you sow is your own business, Doc, c'mon....
Title: Nearby Gamers Website
Post by: Dr Rotwang! on March 19, 2007, 06:45:49 AM
Quote from: Dr Rotwang!Also needs a way to make me show up in Indiana and not Arizona.
Oops.
Title: Nearby Gamers Website
Post by: dsfd re 34rewfe 32 on March 19, 2007, 09:50:30 AM
The way I see it, the bigger it gets, the more likely it is to become a little less clunky.
Title: Nearby Gamers Website
Post by: Dr Rotwang! on March 19, 2007, 09:53:12 AM
Weird -- I went to the site and it displayed my true, real, actual location.  Ijoined...and it pegged me in Tempe, AZ.  I logged out and looked at the page as a guest, and THEN it showed me in Bloomington, IN again.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Major Tom?
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Post by: Volkazz on March 20, 2007, 11:47:17 AM
Apparently I live in Newcastle.  Which is at least five counties away.  Maybe ten.

It needs something sorting in the set up...

V.
Title: Nearby Gamers Website
Post by: cnath.rm on March 21, 2007, 04:19:00 PM
It put me pretty close, it put me in Cedar Rapids, IA instead of Hiawatha (sm-med sub)
Title: Nearby Gamers Website
Post by: O'Borg on March 21, 2007, 05:48:27 PM
I'd hazard a guess and say it automatically derives your location from your IP address using reverse DNS or a traceroute - hence the last hop it can see before you is the location it automatically feeds into the map.
So some of you are getting located by your ISPs nearest Point of Presence.
Title: Nearby Gamers Website
Post by: Nicephorus on March 22, 2007, 11:03:23 AM
Quote from: O'BorgI'd hazard a guess and say it automatically derives your location from your IP address using reverse DNS or a traceroute - hence the last hop it can see before you is the location it automatically feeds into the map.
So some of you are getting located by your ISPs nearest Point of Presence.
I don't think so.  It points to where I live, not where I work and have been to the site from.  It's probably just havign trouble parsing the address info.
Title: Nearby Gamers Website
Post by: Dr Rotwang! on March 22, 2007, 11:09:21 AM
I fixed it.  You have to fill in your location, see.
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Post by: flyingmice on March 22, 2007, 11:16:23 AM
Yep! I was located in Baltimore until I put in my location.

-clash
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Post by: blakkie on March 22, 2007, 11:20:24 AM
Now if only the password reminder email feature would work. I've only got my account partially set up and now I can't get back in because I've got oldfart disease. :(
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Post by: dar on March 24, 2007, 07:46:19 PM
Nearby Gamers is Awesome. I've just discovered a mini con near me that has been going on 4 years that I HAD NO IDEA about! Cool!
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Post by: dsfd re 34rewfe 32 on March 25, 2007, 05:18:06 AM
If you go to Google Earth and get your latitude and longditude, you can pinpoint yourself. Just put it in the location box, for example, 12.5,170.01
Title: Nearby Gamers Website
Post by: Zachary The First on March 25, 2007, 09:07:13 AM
More Indiana Gamers, I say!  We host Gen Con!  A better showing is demanded of us!
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Post by: Gunslinger on March 25, 2007, 01:49:09 PM
I'll be damned, there are gamers in Hawaii besides the 4 guys I play with.  Of course, the military folks are short timers.
Title: Nearby Gamers Website
Post by: gale_wolf on March 26, 2007, 08:04:41 AM
It pinpointed my city as Auckland NZ ok. I just narrowed it down a it further to my suburb.
Title: Nearby Gamers Website
Post by: Tommy Brownell on April 04, 2007, 03:21:21 AM
I, apparently, am the lone gamer in Oklahoma.

Well, not REALLY...but there's a good 50 miles between me and the nearest gamer.