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[dleslie]

Still looking for an alternative self-updating Rolodex.

[owly → dleslie]

There’s still LinkedIn or Twitter if you must.

[blhack → owly]

Twitter is quite frankly worse. And I don't know if I am personally acquainted with even a single person who actively uses LinkedIn. I wonder if the latter is an SV thing?

[perl4ever → blhack]

I don't think LinkedIn use is limited to SV, but the qualifier "actively" makes it unclear what you are trying to say. What is "active" in this context?

[blhack → perl4ever]

A median time between updates of less than 2 months over a 5 year period.

[lev99 → blhack]

LinkedIn serves the same services as a CV and a job fair.

[freddie_mercury → owly]

I've never met a single person in my country who uses either one. Yet everyone I meet has a Facebook account.

[jadedhacker → dleslie]

I don't understand what you mean by self-updating. You still need to "friend" new people. How is that different from adding them to your contacts?

[rabidrat → jadedhacker]

They update their own contact information.

[jes5199 → dleslie]

everyone I care about is on slack

[mr_spothawk → dleslie]

there's only one reason it doesn't exist... go build it.

[matte_black → mr_spothawk]

Building it isn’t the hard part.

[chrisvalleybay → matte_black]

Marketing it is. I actually thought about this idea for a long time, and did a design based off of the phonebook in iOS 11.

But marketing this application is nearly impossible, because it doesn't have any extra features. It just has phone numbers [contact details], and that doesn't excite users to spend time getting it set up.

So I concluded that this is something that has to be done from the OS vendor side. We need an extension to the CardDAV protocol, and we need vendors to implement it.

[dleslie → matte_black]

Indeed, building it is easy but getting people to update it is hard.

[matte_black → dleslie]

Maybe if you emailed people every month or so asking them to update their info if it’s out of date?

[dleslie → matte_black]

A great many people that I communicate with stopped using email regularly ages ago. For younger folks the means of communication are messenger apps and social platforms.

[abhishekjha → matte_black]

Keeping it sane is.