Release notes
What changed.
Ridetales is in private beta and moves most weeks. Newest first.
Signing in no longer fails because somebody else just did.
- The limit on repeated sign-in attempts counted everybody together instead of one visitor at a time, so three sign-ins anywhere within ten seconds turned the next person’s correct password into “that did not work”.
An invite link leads to an account again.
- Opening an invite and filling in the form ended in “email and password sign up is not enabled”. Every invite sent so far was unusable through no fault of the person holding it; the links still work, and now so does the form.
- An invite is spent once it has been used, as it always said it would be.
Both ends of the ride, and room for a longer trip.
- Add a start point as well as an end point. Leaving home is as rarely photographed as coming back, and the route used to begin at the first picture — often an hour into the day.
- A tour holds up to 2000 photographs, raised from 800.
- Start and end points only offer themselves when there is a stop to attach them to. On a tour whose route comes from an imported track they used to appear and do nothing when clicked; now the panel says why.
A shared link no longer hands over the original file.
- Someone holding a shared link could fetch the untouched photograph — full resolution, with the GPS position still written inside the file — which went around the rounding the shared page does on purpose. A link now gets the same reduced copies the page shows, and the original stays with you.
The cover photo finally does something.
- The photo you pick as a tour’s cover is now the picture people see when you send the shared link — and it leads the big card in the garage instead of being ignored by it.
- Importing a recorded GPX track moved out of Add photos and into the route, where the line it replaces lives.
- The routing style no longer claims a tour follows a GPX track when it has none.
Delete a photograph, and the day goes with it.
- Tap a photo on the map while editing and you can delete it, not only leave it out of the route. It asks first: the file and every size made from it go for good.
- A day with no photographs left disappears from the breakdown and the day strip on its own — so deleting the photographs of a day that never happened is how you get rid of it.
Markers that mean something, and a phone that shows one thing at a time.
- Dots and Counts draw two different maps again. Dots carries no numbers at all; Counts numbers every stop, including the ones holding a single photo.
- The Photos marker style survives a big tour: zoom into one village on a 600-photo trip and the photographs come back instead of staying circles.
- A shared link on a phone shows the map, with the photographs one tap away, instead of splitting the screen between the two.
- Report a problem from the account menu, and see which version you are running at the bottom of it.
The ride home.
- Add an end point to a tour, for the stretch home that never gets photographed. The last piece is routed over real roads like the rest. Works on a phone from the tour menu.
- My tours is in the account menu on a phone, where the bar has no room for it.
Edit route gets a button.
- Edit route sits in the tour bar rather than behind the ⋯ menu, and its label says whether the map is currently editable.
A terrain map, for the rides where the ground matters.
- A green, shaded basemap as an alternative to the dark one. Dark stays the default; the choice is per tour.
Your photographs become the markers.
- A photo is its own marker on the map, at four sizes so twelve markers cost twelve small files rather than twelve full ones.
- The shared page and the garage rebuilt around the tour rather than around a list.