mytakedotorg/mtdo

Make about page location specific

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#116 opened on Dec 14, 2017

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Description

The about us page says:

Take the cartoon above. We showed it to you because, based on where you live, you probably voted for Clinton. Here's what we show your fellow citizens in conservative Texas:

The order of which is shown first should depend (roughly) on the user's geography. It's not worth integrating a whole new service, but if there's some lightweight, unreliable heuristic we could use, that would be fine.

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Research direction
Implement a lightweight IP based geolocation heuristic on the about page to determine user's region order.
Tech stack
java
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full stack
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2
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1-3 hours
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Clear
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Java
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75