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by wildermuthn 4289 days ago
Sure thing! I like the overall concept a lot.

> Can you please elaborate on this? Do you mean sort of personalized dashboard?

No... I just want a way to filter people quickly by 'wants to learn' and 'wants to teach'. At first, I don't really care about the details of the person except for that info. So a table that can be filtered with some javascript would be great. Especially if you used something like chosen: http://harvesthq.github.io/chosen. That way, I can both see all the options as well as get autocomplete.

The idea is just that I want to know right away whether or not there is someone who I can help, and someone who can help me. Otherwise, it's a waste of time for me to register. It's like a dating site... I'm not going to register if there's no one available, in the hopes that the site will become popular later.

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(I am the other creator of this website)

> The idea is just that I want to know right away whether or not there is someone who I can help, and someone who can help me. Ok, this makes it much more clear! We'll definitely improve search experience for unregistered users. Thanks for the link, btw, the lib looks very useful.

> Otherwise, it's a waste of time for me to register. It's like a dating site... Yeah, I do agree that the site would be attractive with more users. However, you can register, type in some tags and receive occasional notifications when someone with the same tags signs up.