New user alerts

I think this is a really awesome site and wanted to make a suggestion to improve the experience.

Everytime I go to the site I end up zooming in on the Bay Area where I live and clicking on the same tabs to see who is there. I think it would be very helpful to have a note of who is new around the site and in particular in my area. Something like:

12 new users in your area (area being predefined in some way) and 5 have tagged games similar to yours!

Definitely, this is a great idea.

I'm sorta trying to design a homepage feature for NearbyGamers, to show you lots of personalized stuff. Right now the list of potential features looks like:

• New gamers near you
• Invite people (this is in now)
• uh...

For now I stuck the invitation on your profile in place of the "contact this gamer" form. And I'm a bit torn, I'd sort of like to sprinkle personalization throughout the site -- so you visit the forums and you see some kind of highlighting to show which discussions you've taken part in that have new posts rather than you having a whole separate page with just the discussions you've taken part in.

I guess what I'm saying is I like this feature but have no idea where to put it. And if I put it alone... it would look really lonely. Suggestions?

So currently all of the pins in the map are orange. What if you simply color-coded them based on how recently they joined? Or kept the existing ones orange and used a second color to show "new" users since the last time you visited or perhaps new in the last week?

That would certainly solve the problem I'm seeing.

Chris

Another suggestion to append to this:
Along with new users in my area, perhaps an ability to search for members within a given radius from my location, and present it in a easy-to-scan tabular view.

Right now, I see that there are lots of people in the Chicago-land Area. However, it gets difficult to zoom into a level where I can see the individual tags and click on each one, and then have to scroll around to see everyone. If I could just a get a list of names and what tags they have for everyone within 10 (15, 30, 50) miles (or 16, 24, 48, 80 kilometers), I can easily browse it and see if there is a good collection of people with a certain interests.

-Aeryn

Try to get rid of obvious false tags, i.e. tags using a ";"