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Round winners – October 2024 (Round #172)[redigera]
Congratulations to the winners of round October 2024: Björke from Östergötland turfed home his sixth Gold, AJHB from Greater London added a third Silver to his medal row and gerald_flux.rc from Berlin turfed home his third Bronze. Well done mates!
Upcoming events[redigera]
If you are organizing an open event, don't forget to write to insider@turfgame.com a couple of months in advance to get the information about your event into the newsletter :)
LusseTurf[redigera]
LusseTurf in Västerås will be held again this year the weekend before Lucia (13th of December). More information will come! There will be zones, "lussebuns" and good fun!
Bonanza 2025: 7th of June in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK[redigera]
The Bonanza will be held outside of Sweden for the first time in 2025. The Edinburgh turfers have two very successful ”Sconanza”s behind them and are now planning for a fun-filled long weekend in June 2025. The Bonanza itself is on June 7th, but there are extra events on both June 6th and June 8th! To pre-register interest, complete this form, which will also help give an idea of expected numbers. So far 40 organized turfers have pre-registered. See you in Edinburgh!
Two good things from Turf-dev by Drassen[redigera]
”The first thing I'd like to tell you is that we are currently giving the development some love. The Android app has been gradually crippled by some bugs that were introduced by Google when they updated their Google maps libraries this summer. The bugs sometimes made the app crash when experiencing a change in signal strength. This is finally solved, which can be clearly observed in the crash-statistics that Google provides, here seen in the picture.
An issue that we faced during the refactoring and upgrade process is however legacy support. In short terms we will soon stop supporting android versions 7.X and earlier. This affects 0.5 percent of our users and is a priority we need to do in order to provide a better app. We will continue to make small updates and enhancements these coming months. If you want to be a daring early adopter, you may join the turf beta at google play.
The second good thing is the continuing development of TurfTeams. If you live in Stockholm you may have noticed quite a few new motivated users during October. These users were a part of our wellbeing-at-work initiative. TurfTeams users are just like normal users except they get some extra treatment in the form of toplists, statistics, support, on site kick-off, etc. We hope you all invited them to Turf nicely and also gave them a fair fight for the zones:) If you'd like your own company to join in on a health challenge, https://turfteams.se is the place to start.”
An important part of Turf is the issue system, which we keep getting back to again and again. The updates regarding the frequent crashes of the Turf app was high-lighted both by issues and posts in social media. To quote a somewhat annoying Swedish commercial, ”Writing about it in social media, helps a little. Writing an issue, helps more.” However, one issue makes no update, many are much more likely to get result. So if you experience something with the Turf app you feel is not normal, write an issue :) Don't expect others to do it for you.
We all know that warded is the place to keep track of how many times you have taken a specific zone. The colour code goes as this:
1 take (green), 2-10 takes (yellow), 11-20 takes (orange), 21-50 takes (red) and 51 takes or more (purple). Some years ago the term "fetlila" (fatpurple) was coined when taking a zone 1000 times or more. More recently "toklila" (crazy purple) was used by Oxid in Uppsala when describing a zone you'd taken 5551 times (or more). What will the next step be?
Turf Picture of the Month[redigera]
This months Turf Picture is of the zone LossieLight taken byTheInquisitor:
If you have a Zone picture you want featured as Turf Picture of the Month, send it to insider@turfgame.com. Please include your Turf nick for recognition!
Turfa lugnt/Safe turfing!
//Munin
