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We're excited to announce a new feature that makes collecting information from theme camp and art leads much easier: Questions. This built-in system replaces the need for external Google Forms and streamlines your registration workflow.

What Are Questions?​

Questions are custom fields you can add to camp and art registration forms. They let you collect specific information you need from organizers during the registration process—all within Dust, without requiring separate forms or manual data consolidation. Answers to questions are private between you and the artist/theme camp.

For example, you might want to know:

• Camp size and land requirements
• Art installation dimensions and safety considerations
• Power and equipment needs
• Accessibility accommodations
• Ticket grant requirements

Why We Built This​

Many burn organizers have been using Google Forms alongside Dust to collect additional information. While this works, it creates friction: organizers need to do extra setup for form filling, data gets scattered across different systems, and its hard to manually sync responses between platforms.

Questions solves this by keeping everything in one place.

Getting Started​

To start using Questions:

1. Log in to the admin portal at edit.dust.events
2. Navigate to Settings (gear icon)
3. Click the Questions tab
4. Add questions for theme camps and/or art installations
5. Set questions as required or optional
6. Add helper text to guide organizers

Questions you create will automatically appear in the registration forms for camps and art. Responses are kept private between you and the organizer.

Here's an example of additional questions that were added as part of the art registration:

Learn More​

For detailed documentation on creating and managing questions, check out the Questions documentation.

We hope this feature makes managing your burn's registration process smoother. As always, we'd love to hear your feedback!

November brings some quality of life improvements to the dust app that make it easier to find music events and keep your map up to date. We've also got some updates for regional organizers to improve the placement experience and overall performance of dust.

Music Tab "All"​

The music tab now includes an "All" option that lets you search and view events across all days. Previously you had to swipe through each day to find events, but now you can see everything in one place. This is particularly useful when you're looking for a specific artist or event but aren't sure which day they're performing, which was feedback from this years Burn and our integration with Rock Star Librarian.

Map Updates on Resume​

When you resume the dust app after switching to another app or unlocking your phone, the map will now automatically update. This ensures you're always seeing the most current information about events and locations without having to manually refresh.

Geolocation Updates​

Similarly, your geolocation on the map will now update when you resume the app. This means your position marker will be accurate even if you've moved around while the app was in the background, helping you navigate the playa more effectively.

Diacritic Search Support​

Search has been improved to find words with diacritics. For example, searching for "Crepe" will now properly find "Crêpe" and other similar matches. This makes it easier to find camps and events regardless of how you type the search term.

Theme Customization​

Burns can now customize the primary color of the dust app to match their branding. This allows each regional burn to have a unique look and feel that doesn't clash with dust's pink/red color.

Map Placement Improvements​

You can now easily move camps and art on the map. Go to any camp or art and click Place then you can click any camp or art and then click where you want it to be moved to. Click Save when you are done.

New Database!​

We recently migrated our database infrastructure from Cloudflare D1 to Turso. For you this will mean administering your regional burn will feel snappier!

For the technically minded, we made the choice to switch to Turso because it allows us to have sycing replicas: allowing much faster access because of replicas of the database hosted around the world. We are still keeping the rest of our infrastructure in Cloudflare, the decision was made because we were not confident in Cloudflare D1's beta implementation of read replicas.