Who Near Me is suppose to show users on an app how far away other members are, and who is close by. The way it is currently coded, it fails to do this.
Members on an app are allowed to choose "not to be shown on the map" which removes them from the list entirely. MOST members will not want to "be shown on a map" so they will select not to be shown. This means that I could have 100 users using Who Near Me trying to see how far other members are from them, but only 10 on the list making it look like no one uses it at all. This degrades the plugin.
Next, "the map" is a horrible idea if admin can not disable it and use only List View. Being shown on a map, especially a social app where some people may want to talk and others may want to ignore you, is a recipe for disaster. People can be jealous crazy psychos that will track the person down that is ignoring them, stalk them, and maybe worse. Especially in USA where people seem to have lost ALL common sense and morality.
Lastly, users on an app should be auto added into Who Near Me for it to function like it should. When someone uses a thing like Who Near Me, they should get a full list of all members for it to work. The members that are within the search distance would be showed. Or maybe a preset distance search set by admin allowing for greater distances to start but limiting the search results to the first 50 people UNLESS the user chooses to look in a different location to search.
I know that MooSocial knows how to do this already, because the issue was brought up last year, but instead of improving the over all plugin they decide to do it on a per user basis and charge them extra. This isn't good because it will cause more members to just give up when they can't afford the price tag of a function-able app.
I myself may pay the extra fee soon because I have put too much money into the app idea I had, to risk members of my app leaving because they do not like how it works. But the plugin itself should be updated to add these features that would make it what it should be anyway.
letlef
ip location etc etc ..
Fortunately there is another option, if the world has to bend it in front of google we would not be in shit lol
Mark said that after 3.1 they will take time to see if openstreet map is adaptable here.
Between us I do not see why it would not be seen as it is adaptable in all script, ok this requires work, but it was necessary to be reflected before or ask the opinion of the people before going with google.
Today we are at a dead end, either we take ... more