Match location preferences are too course

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Match location preferences are too course #116

Open unDeadHerbs opened 3 years ago

unDeadHerbs commented 3 years ago

Currently the only options are "nearby" and "everybody". This is both fairly course grained and ambiguous.

Two alternate methods would be:

A radial option for: "Show me matches in my: City, State/Province, Country, Everywhere"
Let the user specify a maximum number of miles between cities (zero being noted as the same city).

The latter is easier to code; but, has a few more privacy concerns. Rounding the miles to one significant figure prevents stalking.

gernei09 commented 3 years ago

We definitely need more fine grain control over who we see by location, preferably by distance. Is there also a reason why you aren't displaying the location for each profile card? Privacy? Maybe only display a mileage indicator and round it to nearest tenth if privacy is a concern (i.e. "~10 miles"). I wouldn't mind having the see "everybody" option, but definitely need an indicator to know when someone is out of my "area" and ideally how far. Heck just state/country would help.