Location picklist empty, can't complete Profile Information

[BobJonkman]

When creating a new SignUp the Profile Information page pulldown menu for location has no locations. Clicking "Continue" shows the popup "Please select an item from the list".

Replicated on IceCat (Firefox) and Chromium.

[BobJonkman]

Appears to be a PEBKAC issue, I didn't wait for the list to populate (which it doesn't unless you type something)

It does work when I type a city about 20km from me, Waterloo, Ontario. But I don't find that very intuitive ("Pick a location where you're not..."). For improved #UX that list should be populated as soon as the dropdown is selected, perhaps narrowing down as letters are typed. Even better, have several pick lists, one for country, one for region, one for locality (the terms used in vCards). For even better UX have a map locator ("Click on the map to indicate your location"). But of course use #OpenStreetMap, not Google Maps :)

[vhfmag]

I don't know if it's related, but I can't find my city if I type 'salvador bahia brazil', even though if a type 'salvador' and scroll way down I find the right option ('Salvador, Bahia, Brazil').

I would vote for multi-field location selection too, as that would allow for better initial dropdown population and type-ahead suggestions. :)

[mhall119]

I think it currently only searches the city name, not the region/country party. That could certainly be improved, although it might slow down the database query

[vhfmag]

Is spliting the single location input into separated country, region and city inputs an option?

[mhall119]

That would make the UI a little cluttered, could we do something smarter on the backend instead? Maybe split the query into words, and try to match against any of the words across the 3 fields, and then rank the results by number of matches