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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 5050992" data-attributes="member: 1">Well, user profiles will be made a major part of the new site,a nd we 85,000 of those. At the moment, your EN World profile exists, and can hold as much info as we want it to, but they are very background. The new site will utitilize user profiles much, much more. So much of this stuff is simply ensuring the user profile has all the information you want on it - plus integrating with your blog, pictures, and other EN World activities. The core issue then, is the "matching" functionality. We can make a profile as detailed as we want, and it can include swathes of information on your games and so forth - that's just data; our task here is a searching/browsing interface which leads you to the profiles you need. Geography is clearly the MOST important aspect here, and is the primary filter for narrowing down the member database to those which could be relevant to you.  So our options so far seem to be: 1) Postal/Zip Code. Problematic part here is obtaining the data for different places. 2) Keywords. Search by country, state/county/province, town. Then perhaps a "distance from" that location.  3) Lat/long. Oviously the most accurate way to do it, but I'm not clear on how that works. Do people need to know their latitude and longitude for this to work? Because I certainly don't know mine! It sounds like that would be a barrier to entry; people could find out that info, but will they bother? Is there some easy way to determine lat/long (assuming you don't have a GPS device)?</blockquote>

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