This is the official blog from the Localist team.

Come here to get the latest development updates, features, community spotlights, notices, tips, meetups, plans and general hijinx.
August 6
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July 24

Attention Geeks

We recently migrated to Rails 2.1! What does this mean? Not much. The idea is to stabilize Localist’s back end a bit and hopefully make things a little peppier.

We fixed a few quirks when testing the upgrade, but there might be some more out there. Send an e-mail to info@localist.com if you notice anything funky.

July 14

Feature Tweaks, New Developments

We recently rolled out a few things you may be interested in:

  • When adding a venue to a plan that has an event occurring at it, you now have the option to remove the event and keep the venue.
  • Improved “popular” algorithms to make the city page listings more accurate
  • Sped up and improved searching

Coming soon:

  • Not requiring a person to sign up to RSVP to a plan
  • Facebook App!
June 5

Top Upcoming Events

On the Localist city pages, we split the Top Upcoming Events list to help you plan your social life a bit more in advance.

Now, the first 8 events are the most popular events within the next two weeks. The 6 events after that are the most popular beyond two weeks. This helps give you an idea of what events are heating up before the actual day of the event.

May 20

Notification e-mails

Now, when someone sends you a message or leaves you a comment, it can be read in the notification e-mail we send. You won’t have to visit the actual site to read it anymore. Sorry for that annoyance!