Beacon Bits

@beaconbits.app

📍 Drop a beacon. Pin your photos & posts to the map, tag friends, and cross-post to your atproto account. beaconbits.app

A new BB update has landed! We’ve squashed some bugs, optimized a few things under the hood, and added snazzy new open graph cards for share embeds. Here are some beacons from our awesome community to help show it off:

Foursquare just pushed out a UI redesign and I think it's now officially cooked 😢 After 15 years of consistently using it, I think I will be turning my attention to @beaconbits.app. Fortunately I've built an import tool in @passports.social. I'm afraid to flood the firehouse with 10k+ posts 😅

Beacon Bits June update is now live! This release brings some sweet new features: 🌎 A new 3D map using @maplibre.org 📍 Clickable POI markers for easier checkins ☀️ Weather details on beacons and posts ❤️ Better interactions backed by @microcosm.blue 🔐 New OAuth backend with a 90 day timeout

The new 3D map in beacon bits, allowing you to see the entire world of beacons backed by atproto records

Get ready for a new way to see beacons across the globe. Our next update will add clickable POI markers and a new 3D map experience. Stay tuned for more info this week 📡

The latest build of Beacon Bits is live! We’ve rolled out performance improvements, bug fixes and a new guide feature that allows you to share walking guides. Some other exciting things are in the works, so stay tuned. 📡

The new shared guide view for saved collections.A shot of Google Maps, with a guide route exported from Beacon Bits

⚠️ After some downtime… we’re back up. All relay beacons from today have awakened the anomaly, causing it to bloom. A kaleidoscope of butterflies has also joined and begun flying around the core. What will the final day of #ATmosphereConf bring?

⚠️ The AMS Nest station is officially at full signal lock. The rest of the relay stations need your beacons to make the echo anomaly bloom. With your continued assistance #ATmosphereConf, hopefully we can discover the nature of this anomaly…

Overhead map view of UBC campus, with 9 relay stations powered up aimed at the echo anomaly.

📡 Anomaly Update 004 The Echo Anomaly is responding to our relay stations and has started to subtly breathe. Current state is stable, but we lack the energy to initiate a full connection. To push past this threshold, we need a huge, synchronized surge of power. And that's where you come in...

An overhead view of the echo anomaly floating over the X̱wi7x̱wa Library on the UBC campus.

Pieter @montoulieu.dev isn't giving a talk at this year's conference, but he's working on rolling out a fun atproto linked game with @beaconbits.app: an anomaly is forming over the UBC venue in Vancouver! Follow the app (and login and press the anomaly scanner button in app) to find out more

Beacon Bits@beaconbits.app · 5mo ago

📡 Anomaly Update 003 For the last 48 hours, the relay station atop AMS Nest has been analyzing a high frequency signal emanating from the anomaly. Today this signal abruptly synchronized and revealed a message. Standby for further instructions...

📡 Anomaly Update 003 For the last 48 hours, the relay station atop AMS Nest has been analyzing a high frequency signal emanating from the anomaly. Today this signal abruptly synchronized and revealed a message. Standby for further instructions...

Another quick update, but @blackskyweb.xyz users will now see "View on Blacksky" and "Post To Blacksky" throughout the app. Did some debug testing on this locally, but would love some help to confirm all is working properly on the live app. ✌️

The beacon drawer menu now with View on Blacksky when you're logged into a Blacksky based pds account.The Beacon checkin drawer now with Post to Blacksky toggle when you're logged into a blacksky based pds account.