Users are discussing the need for better filtering options on the users page, particularly to filter by location. SMT highlights the lack of location-based filtering on a large forum with 18K users, noting the inability to find users from specific cities like New York or San Francisco. codinghorror explains that location is a free-text field, not a structured GPS-based one, but suggests using the Data Explorer plugin for custom queries. merefield recommends discussing the feature with the developers of the Locations Plugin. Michael_Fearne supports the idea of adding a location filter similar to the username filter. Bathinda asks for plugin or theme suggestions, and merefield points out that the Chatbot feature allows natural language searches for users by location, which still works as of the post.
On my forum there are 18K users. But there is no way to filter users. Example filter users via location.
If I want to see how many people are from new york or from san francisco how to I do that? I think this feature is needed as currently there is no way to find particular people who live in some location.
On FB we can search people who live in new york. In Discourse there should be some way to do this.
GPS style location isn’t a default field in Discourse, it is free text, you could put in “Mars” there.
Yeah, I know that. But I really need this feature. Atleast I will get some results if I search mars. But right now there is no way to find people based in some location.
You can install the Data Explorer plugin and query any way you like.
Suggest you discuss this feature with the guys working on the ‘Locations Plug-in’?
I’d love more options to allow users to search for other users.
At the moment on the user page we have “filter by username”.
What about a similar “filter by location” field that works the same way.
It’s obviously only text. But to be able to input a city or country and see a list of other people who have put that in their location field would be awesome.
Since this topic was created long ago, can anyone suggest any plugin or theme component which could let me find all users from some particular location (I’m already using ‘Locations’ plugin).
Chatbot allows you to find users from a specific location using natural language.
(i’ve just checked and it still works)
That’s just awesome. You people never stop to amaze.