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ilikeilive.com

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So I signed up, but I have no clue what to do...

Oh right! The info page might help http://www.ilikeilive.com/about/

We put it together after we finished Uni and realised that moving to new areas made it difficult to meet/find people with similar interests.

The goal was to try and make it easier. It's not a dating site, it's not a swap site - it just shows where (roughly) people are and what they like.

Hopefully it would encourage a bit of pedagogy if people were open enough ala "Ooh horse riding, what's that like - can you tell me more".

You need to give people something very specific to do or look at, otherwise it's not even interesting or useful once, forget coming back to use it again.

Yeah - well ultimately it would be better defined but in the first instance we wanted to release something.

We can iteratively add features when we have any requests. As it stands it's quite nice to be able to message people and find others around you who like similar things.

In that case, at least make it a chat application. If I can talk to someone near me in real-time, that's much more fun.

The message notifying stuff is all AJAX driven so it should be near real-time. It sends an email notification if you don't reply/login within 15 minutes.

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