North - Save & Share Places

This release includes a ton of fun updates. --- Introducing Polls We are so freaking excited for this one. We’ve said before that the best recs come from friends—but what if those friends aren’t on North? With Polls, it’s now easy to ask a question, like “What’s the best coffee in Paris?”, and share a link anywhere your people are: post it on X, share on Threads, send a text, email it—heck, you could put the link on a banner and fly it from an airplane. On your Poll, your friends can suggest places and vote on their favorites. The best part? They can do it all from the web or their phone, without downloading an app or creating an account. Now, you can easily crowdsource recommendations from your friends and followers. And once folks add places, you can easily save the ones you want to remember in North. Another great use case for polls? Deciding where to go to dinner with friends. Simply open North, create a poll asking—”Where should we go for dinner tonight?”, and pop it in a group text. Friends can add suggestions and vote on their favorites in seconds. --- North goes vrooooom In our opinion, app performance is a critical part of user experience. North should be easy-to-use, and part of that is ensuring it’s fast. This release we’ve shipped over a dozen improvements to speed. Here are the highlights: - Images load MUCH faster - Loading North featured lists and other users’ public lists is now much faster - North stays speedy on the Your Map tab even if you have 8,000+ places - The activity feed refreshes much quicker than before - Accepting friend requests now doesn’t take forever --- Measure your influence You all have discovered thousands of places through your friends on North. Now, we’re giving you a way to measure how often your friends are saving places that they discover through you. On your home screen, you can now see your "Influence", which goes up every time someone saves a place you added first—either from the activity feed, the shared map, or from one of your lists. Get out there, you trendsetters. --- Finally, we’ve shipped a ton of small improvements to the app based on feedback from all of our wonderful users. - You can now set your preferred unit of measure (km or miles). This is also defaulted based upon the location settings of your phone. - You can now add places to standard lists without marking them as “Wanna go” or adding a rating. This is helpful when you’re creating a list of recommendations for someone else, but you don’t want these places saved to your places. - We’ve updated the UI on the map for adding and removing different layers (such as friends' pins and North's recommendations). - You can now create Smart Lists that are conditioned off of country (previously, it was only possible to do this by region and city).

A few bug fixes and performance improvements.

Exciting updates in this release! Log a Visit (Check-Ins): Keep track of where you've been and your favorite spots! With our new "Log a Visit" feature, you can easily record your visits right in North. Activity is now Home: We heard how much you love browsing your friends' activity, so we’ve made it even easier to find—it’s now on the Home tab. Plus, your own activity is now included, so North feels just as great in solo mode. The Action Button: We’ve simplified common actions to just a couple of taps. Quickly log a visit, save a place, create a list, or start a poll with ease. North Curators: Discover amazing places around the globe with recommendations from North and our incredible curator partners. Check out their picks by visiting the Explore tap and turning on the layer for saved places by North and our curator partners. Bug Fixes and Updates: We’ve squashed bugs and added micro updates throughout to keep things running smoothly. We can’t wait to hear what you think!

Nothing too exciting this time, just a few minor bug fixes.