• A new social network, Nextdoor, launches in the UK for you and your neighbours
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/articles/37361684[/url]
My street back home was a place where nobody ever talked to their neighbors, mostly because they either don't want to be talked to or seek to call the county to bitch that your grass was an inch too high. The apartment I'm in now is a quiet place where everyone is antisocial for fear of surrounding crime. I'd love if this sort of app became more common. A unified community is a safer one! [editline]14th September 2016[/editline] if it gets too popular Facebook will probably buy it and introduce a GPS range + street name community hub thing
I had set up a nextdoor account when I lived in a nice townhouse with a friend, we figured it'd help out and got a few people onboard with the idea. It died out pretty fast, and I forgot about it for years, but suddenly I was getting emails from them to update my neighborhood and communicate with certain people who were trying to set up a neighborhood in nearby towns, but I didn't live there anymore, and the service didn't have a function to move out/update your own address (at the time, unsure of now) nor could I find a way to deactivate these 'important' notifications. I'm a bit sour about it but the service itself was very promising the functions this app provides are a [I]bit[/I] nullified by things like what happens in my area, communities will often set up their own 'garage sale' info pages on facebook, which also double as little info hubs as any major events/crimes end up getting a 'whoa did you hear about this' post shared from the local police facebooks. Every town back home has its own small page, as well as the counties at large, and they're all very active [img]http://i.imgur.com/RG5uW9Y.png[/img] in the end nextdoor is pretty neat and anyone using it is actually LOOKING for more information than your average garage sale page, but it has a massive wall to climb before it maintains some customer activity due to how dominating facebook is. Too many products suffer from "I am/other people are already using X and it's popular, why should I make a new account and go to a new app/website for the same thing?" syndrome, even when they do have some great stand-out features
So you have to manually create groups for this to work? That's a real bummer, and makes it sound pointless. I interpreted the idea as automatically defining neighborhood regions from which to communicate in. Like you'd just get the app, choose a name/login/address, and already see the conversation from your local community. Like that one app people use on college campuses to leave local anonymous notes, but not so anonymous and more local.
[QUOTE=bitches;51051175]So you have to manually create groups for this to work? That's a real bummer, and makes it sound pointless. I interpreted the idea as automatically defining neighborhood regions from which to communicate in. Like you'd just get the app, choose a name/login/address, and already see the conversation from your local community. Like that one app people use on college campuses to leave local anonymous notes, but not so anonymous and more local.[/QUOTE] when I first used it (it was brand new here at the time), if you're the first in your area to sign up you can opt to create the boundaries of your neighborhood and manage it, and could see the edges of any other established areas in case you wanted to request they edit to include yours or whatever. It's rough to get the whole system moving by crowdsourcing it, but that ensures boundaries are set as the community feels they should be (in case a subdivision is bisected by town lines or whatever). Once someone has established a neighborhood, everyone else who logs in and tags their address should automatically fall into the group, at least.
sounds like it could produce a lot of drama i'd rather an automatically mapped system that gives you the option to opt in or out of very nearby cells you could even take the local average custom map of cell inclusions and make it the new default for that region
[QUOTE=bitches;51051405]sounds like it could produce a lot of drama i'd rather an automatically mapped system that gives you the option to opt in or out of very nearby cells you could even take the local average custom map of cell inclusions and make it the new default for that region[/QUOTE] looking back at the screenshot, I'm guessing it does let you set a range to get info from [img]http://i.imgur.com/aFSvv50.png[/img] I'd have to check the app out again to see if you're just giving it a distance to include, or if you cherrypick the neighborhoods you want to keep tabs on
A lot of people want there neighbours to fuck off
[QUOTE=burgerdemon;51051464]A lot of people want there neighbours to fuck off[/QUOTE] They can use Yik Yak
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