Burning Man is obviously a massive time for dust. I don't track numbers of users but having an Apple and Google developer account means that I do have some idea of how many people are using the app, and it looks like there were around 20k of you using the app on average 5 times during the week of the burn.
After burn week I posed a question asking for feedback and collected hundreds of responses. This was then broken down into features and fixes and prioritized by importance. The feature request list has been used to create a roadmap and for the fixes it has resulted in a busy September cleaning up issues not only for Burning Man but also for regionals too.
The full list of fixes for september is below, but in summary fixes included better offline support, fixes for swiping back from pages, automatically opening the app the last event and a whole lot more.
The list of features implemented has been limited because having a super stable app is the priority but there are also some cool features added including reminders for things like volunteer shifts, filtering for camp types (like sound camps) and art types (like mutant vehicles). Imports from Google Maps have been improved and visual improvements on the app and manager website too.
I'd like to thank everyone who gave their feedback and suggestions. There is still a lot of work helping out regionals with their events but I'm hoping to get to some of the really fun features by the end of the year.
Dust Manager Fixes for September 2024
- Add art type to art to support mutant vehicles
- Add camp type to camp to support sound camps
- Import KML added for art
- Fix: KML import now matches items that have additional spaces or special characters
- Added ability to change the CSS for the static camps / events pages
- Remove times for start and end of burn
- Added web page for art listings and art
- Import KML for new art and new camps
- Improve layout and styling of the dust editor
Dust App Fixes for September 2024
- Private events are now reminders and are available in regional burns
- Mutant Vehicles show location as "Out on the Playa"
- Recurring events are shown with an icon
- Add spacing between event types
- Art shows side image layout if < 50% of art has an image
- Fix swipe to remove events from favorites
- Fix for event listing
- Fix to refresh event listing when changing filter
- Fix when going back to camps/events page and seeing white content
- Fix auto starting the event if closed while selected
- Scroll to the last event you visited (after pressing < and >)
- Fix where music shows no events on first view
- The music section will scroll the current day into view
- Rock Star Librarian data for sets crossing midnight have day incremented
- Remove swipe to go back for pages that have the map
- Confirmation added when deleting a friend
- Pass version number with requests for data
- Add camp types to accommodate sound camps
- Add art types to accommodate mutant vehicles
- Use experimental zoneless change detection
- Use isolatedModules to speed up builds
- Avoid app update unless on wifi