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- Long daily practice is being retired. I'm replacing it with something new, coming soon. - overhaul on how experience and levels work. They are no longer a combination of your continent levels, which was confusing. you have an overall level which goes up with every experience point gained, and, continent skill levels which go up with every experience point earned per continent - made it so you can tap on some charts for more info Fixes: - some practice maps were dropping locations, fixed - fixing famous islands practice maps to better score against the geometry of an island chain - fixing a bug in the point-to-polygon distance formula. - improve versus matches data to include things like how much time left the players had - improving the versus cards to show more details - and versus stops giving you applause for a high score when you lose. - fixing where creating challenges wasn't keeping your preferences from one to the next - improving free-for-all to the latest version to support friendly matches and competitive ones

- fixed a versus loading bug, where the locations should be loading during the countdown but weren't - fixed versus page where it wasn't showing your recent matches - fixed free-for-all layout issues

- Explore mode ... just the globe, no game. See every location and filter by difficulty, global find rates, or for personal score. You can get to it from Practice maps. - Versus is now three tabs, rather than one giant, endless, painful scroll. - New setting, hide John's snarky comments. Do my comments make you mad? My mom would agree with you. - Group pages now show player-made maps from players in the group. Right now, the only way to make a map is with the web interface, at maptap.gg. - New Argentina Top 15 cities practice - a new game mode, free for all, is in this version but hidden. It needs more testing. Bug fixes: - emoji now render in globe trivia (sigh) - groups: 'start fresh' setting for when you make a new group, if you don't want it to back-populate scores prior to group creation date - a finger resting on the globe could score your next round. Whups. Fixed this. - sharing a game from a previously played date showed today's date. Fixed. - streak counting was being too kind about missed days. it is less kind now. - Share flags: Victoria, BC no longer shows a US flag, and Kosovo no longer shares a Serbia flag. That didn't cause any controversy at all. Nope. - some quality of life versus fixes (trying to improve the reliability of being able to accept open challenges that you see)

Bug Fixes: - fixing an issue where if you opened the app before midnight, and tried to play the daily game after midnight, it thought you had already played and gave you the scores from the day before. - achievement banners will no longer linger into the next game you play - improved the readability of score text over deserts - fixed the flag picker (where the country text was black on black, making it quite challenging to read!) - fixed a bug where if you started a player map, then left the app, then came back, you didn't return to the player map

- New achievements system, earn badges as you progress in your geography skills! - Play player-made maps! To to the menu at the top of the screen and discover and play maps made by players - Taps now tell you the population of the location - Tapping a shared map link and it now opens right in the app. - Fix for the app pausing when you select picture mode practice. - Fixed country practice scoring: tapping inside the United States, The Bahamas, or French Guiana now scores correctly instead of missing.