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It isn't exactly clear until you hit the actual site - http://www.hndir.com/ - that this is only for students. Just a heads up in case you aren't.

I wonder how many man-hours Facebook initially put in while restricting users to schools only, man-hours that would have been saved if they just used the current "Facebook is for everyone!" mindset that they have now...

I joined, and created my school. I've gotten four e-mails about new students joining my network despite no-one else actually being there. Not a huge deal, especially since gmail put them all into a single message thread, but it should probably be looked at.

It might be nice to have a field for people to list their personal websites. You'll find mine if you google me, but people with more common names are going to have trouble.

should be fixed now, sorry about that

What about students studying outside of the US? Most universities in South Africa use the .ac.za TLD...

Sometimes I'm getting pretty tired of apps/people who keep forgetting about non-us people, the internet is global, why put restrictions on it? Both my Dutch and Danish eduational mail addresses won't work obviously..but seems we can mail the owner to add or schools, at least that's something.

i haven't found a list of non-us schools, but if you e-mail hack@hndir.com we will add it soon

error: our sendmail is fubar. please e-mail hack@hndir.com.

fixed

Site's not working on IE8 / Windows 7 64-bit - everything is completely skewed etc. I suspect it's related to this?

http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/12/ie8-64-bit-windows-7-an...

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