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TL;DR
The app looks different on purpose. Meet cards, home, menu, and detail got a sharp redesign — square geometry, clearer type, calmer surfaces. Under that: home search that reaches the full catalog, flyer photo upload on submit, sharper Instagram paste, auto-cleanup for past saved meets (1 day by default), offline drive times, and color palettes in Menu. Plus we cut a few features that weren’t earning their keep.
What's new
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UI refresh — the whole product surface. This is the part you’ll notice before anything else. We moved onto a tighter design system: sharp corners (
rounded-noneinstead of soft pills), Roboto headings + Inter body, and Tabler icons end-to-end. Meet cards are rebuilt around square cover photos, cleaner title/meta hierarchy, and quieter badges. Filter chips, the spotlight rail, home header, menu rows, and meet detail (sticky actions, quick stats, weather/sun) all follow the same language — dark-first, hairline borders, less chrome, more scan. Menu → Look & feel still has theme / OLED, and now base color palettes (Neutral, Zinc, Stone, Slate, and friends) if you want the neutrals to lean a different way. Same product, new lot. -
Home search that reaches the full catalog. Typing in the search bar still filters what’s already on your feed, and when that isn’t enough we hit a server full-text + fuzzy title search so a meet buried further down the schedule can still surface. Same bar, fewer “why can’t I find it” moments.
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Submit a meet — attach a flyer photo. Don’t have an Instagram link? On the Flyer & links step you can upload a JPEG/PNG/WebP/GIF (up to 10 MB). We mirror it for moderators as a suggested cover — same path as paste-from-link, without needing a URL.
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Instagram prefill — less caption garbage, clearer failures. Paste-from-link now prefers what’s on the flyer for title and description instead of scraping the caption. If AI or cover mirroring can’t finish the job, the form tells you instead of silently leaving fields empty so you can attach a flyer yourself.
Gone on purpose
- Map “Can I make it?” / reach filter and the related meets rail on detail — unused enough that they were mostly noise.
- Public meet status history timeline from 4.2 — pulled until we have a version worth keeping on the page.
- Meet category tags (and tag filters) — charity / community pick / editorial spotlight already cover the badges that matter; the free-form tag list didn’t.
- Map tile cache budget slider in Menu — caching still uses a default on-device budget; the control wasn’t pulling its weight.
Fixes
- Address autocomplete and geocoding — Nominatim suggestions are less aggressive about dropping useful hits; saving a meet can reuse coordinates you already picked from autocomplete; GPS lookups default to a cache-friendly mode and only go high-accuracy when drive ETA needs it.
- Meet detail and submit-status hydration — fewer prerender/time glitches; sticky actions and invite/share copy behave more predictably.
- iOS Live Activities — build and token-tracking fixes so the plugin compiles cleanly and doesn’t lose track of push tokens across activity starts.
- Instagram cover mirror — already-downloaded flyer bytes can upload to Catbox without hard-failing the whole prefill.
What's new (but you'll never see it)
Postgres full-text + trigram indexes on meets (0031). Public flyer upload endpoint with a tight per-IP rate limit and Catbox mirror. Playwright e2e in CI when a database secret is present. Admin command palette. schema.org Event JSON-LD on listing surfaces. Shared shadcn field/input-group primitives and the Lucide → Tabler migration that make the UI refresh hold together.
Privacy policy
Material updates effective July 10, 2026 — on-device base-color appearance preference; optional auto-removal of past saved meets; last-known drive-time cache for offline detail; map tile cache disclosure updated now that Menu no longer exposes a budget control. Full diff on Privacy Policy. June’s platform log is the June 2026 Transparency Report.
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