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The website seems very North America centric. So much so that I thought it was North America only. Elsewhere ITT you mentioned Japan though. Have you considere
by codetrotter 7y ago
The website seems very North America centric. So much so that I thought it was North America only. Elsewhere ITT you mentioned Japan though.
Have you considered making the site more global friendly? Also, on mobile at least when I go to look at the map I expected to be able to see all machines in the whole world but instead it only tells me there are no machines within 50 miles of me and won’t show me any machines at all.
- ryantgtg 7y agoThe brief history of the site is that for the first 8 years or so it contained many separate maps, each for a distinct region. These regions were comprised of places where people had contacted us and said they wanted a map, and that they would manage the data for. It just happens that almost all of those regions were in North America. So, we let the users decide what the map would show. Additionally, we had a pact with findapinball.com that we’d stay out of Europe. We recently backed out of that because we merged all the regions together and wanted to allow people to submit locations anywhere. We don’t really have the resources to load data for the whole world. But the code is available, and if you want to figure out a way to cluster data at that scale...! Also, I agree that the website search experience needs improvement. Try the mobile app! We recently redesigned it, and it’s easier to browse the world.
- codetrotter 7y agoI see, and I will try your mobile app then :)