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by ve55 2367 days ago
Tagmap (https://tagmap.io/) - allows communities to have a map of their members and easily message people nearby or similar to you to make new friends. Currently have a few thousand MAU, hoping to pick this up significantly in 2020.
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Looked around and clicked the tag that had a few thousand users (because everything else was a hundred or less) and the few near me were bizarre NSFW shock value profiles. Is that normal for this?
There's been a few malicious users here and there and some interesting communities, we usually remove them pretty quickly, especially when they're reported. I'll do a check right now and try to remove whatever it was you stumbled across, thanks!

We're also working on a more robust system to filter content that some users might not want to see, although anything extreme should be removed either way.

It could also be the community. For example, I don't know what "r9k" means but it's far and away the one with the most users. Considering the number of 4chan related tags I saw maybe it's something unsavory.
Yeah, quite a few users on that site have been using it. I'm hoping to get more adoption from independent forums and Reddit in 2020.
Very cool concept though. And congrats on launching it all the same.
Thanks! It's difficult to get the product to be right for so many varying types of use cases and communities, but hopefully we'll get a lot of traction either way.