Podcast episode #7 is out: Collecting and Connecting
Stickers for sale for $1 on the store.
And we made hand sanitizers that are exclusive to Patreon supporters.
(I thought I posted about the stickers and 'tizers already - did it get deleted? Or did I fail to click “post”?)
I’m not seeing any deleted posts so probably a missed “Post” click on your end. Cool swag!
App update for Android and iOS:
@ROM you know country is listed as an optional field, but you can’t promote a location without it? 
(Admin page)
Yeah :< It’s a weird thing that I tried and failed to fix. Scott is very busy at a new job, so hasn’t had time to fix it. And my ruby on rails skills aren’t up to snuff. We’ll try to get to it soon.
Usually a submission defaults to secretly having “United States” as the country. So even when the field doesn’t appear to be filled in, you can still promote the location. But not always.
Honestly, just change the optional text to required and call it fixed. Also, put United states at the top of the list. 
Map usage in March. Good job, self-quarantining. Big slowdown occurred before most places closed.
Also, we’ve pulled together a list of businesses that are renting out machines. http://blog.pinballmap.com/2020/04/02/rent-a-pinball-machine/
There’s been a noticeable drop in traffic here too.
I don’t have day-by-day stats readily available, but March was about half the regular volume of tournaments.
During the first 7 days of April there has been 14 tournaments so it’s on track for 56 tournaments in April (around 5% of the expected volume).
Thank you for staying home everyone 
Nice plunge. Once it picks back up, the Matchplay graph would make a good candidate for the Ski Stock ski-jumping game (if they had anything other than stock graphs on there).
Personally, my message board/chat usage has dropped off significantly. My wife and I are working from home while simultaneously caring for our 2 year old. So, if I have a moment to hang out on a message board or chat room, that moment needs to instead be spent watching my kid.
We released Pinball Map app v5.2.0 for iOS and Android! Blog post about it. Here’s an overview of the changes. Thanks for using the app!
A location near me has a linked pair of NBA Fastbreak tables. Adding another copy doesn’t seem to do anything in the app.
Just mentioning it because it’s an interesting edge case. Not sure it’s worth spending programming resources on it.
Even if you could add multiple copies to a location how might one differentiate them in the app? Left & right would work for this pair.
Yeah that’s an edge case that we’re aware of. But so far we’ve determined that it’s not worth spending resources working on. Our best advice is to leave a machine comment saying there are two set up as linked machines.
In other news: I didn’t mention it here, but we did some spring cleaning of the Pinball Map data, and made blog posts about it here and here. It largely involved consolidating some of the “location types” as well as removing some non-pinball machines from our database. As we explain in the blog post, the non-pinball machines (e.g. bat games and the like) were putting us on a slippery slope, resulting in people getting mad at us about not including x and y other non-pinball machines (e,g. random arcade machines). So we opted to pull back and remove the non-pinball machines. Which, of course, means that now people are mad at us about that…
I’m reminded of some saying about never being able to please anyone all of the times.
Also, I’m glad it’s not full of the other stuff.
May be add NBA Fastbreak Linked to the game list?
That’s a good idea!
We added “NBA Fastbreak Linked” as a machine. And I added it to a few locations based on some recent comments (Pinballz Arcade, At the Wallace, Upstate Pinball Arcade & Museum).
We just released a small app update, v5.2.1.
This one fixes an issue with deep links that was making it hard for users to reset forgotten passwords.
