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by r3dey3 3244 days ago
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.

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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.
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.

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.

Came here to say the exact same thing. I tried typing in Montreal and it took me to Seoul. Really frustrating actually.
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.

It would make more sense to be able to select from a list of available cities instead of a broken auto complete.