As always we've been busy making lots of small changes and improvements. Updated the known issues page to reflect recent OS releases (iOS 12.4.6) and to fix some grammar issues as well. I expect v6 to come out in 2023 or 2024. We're experimenting in this area to see how much traction a secondary version of the Easter Bunny Tracker we run could potentially get. From the tracker's modest beginnings with just a few thousand hits in our first year to now two back-to-back runs that've exceeded 100,000 hits, from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for believing in me, believing in my tracker, and using it during Easter! Fixed issues with you rapidly switched between precise & approximate location in localization settings. Version 4.5.1 brings improvements to the overall tracker experience in preparation before launch, and to clear things up with how you can use our tracker and your privacy when using the tracker. This would depict the Easter Bunny slowing down when reaching/leaving large cities, on top of the current arrival system that we have. Track.EasterBunny.cc provides a countdown to when the Easter Bunny will begin his trek, at which point it provides updates along the way. Information includes arrival time, population, elevation, weather on arrival, and the first (and sometimes second) paragraph from Wikipedia. Having them won't do any harm to the tracker, but it'll do nothing. And when the Easter Bunny is nearby, you'll be able to see down-to-the-stop when the Easter Bunny arrives, up to 10 stops before arrival (of course this is your warning to get tucked in bed so the Easter Bunny can deliver your baskets!). That's all for now! Refined stop accuracy Easter Bunny Tracker Status Check this page any time to view the current status of the Easter Bunny Tracker. Minor feature additions & bug fixes across the board. We've done this to streamline the codebase, and next year we plan to integrate the countdown into the tracker as well for zero redirects. Welcome to the news feed for track.easterbunny.cc, where you can stay updated with the latest information from the team running track.easterbunny.cc. Where's The Easter Bunny? Improves device incompatibility checking. The second change is that they sport the refreshed design. Without further ado, here's what we have planned for Version 5 of track.easterbunny.cc! Fixed a bug where if you left the tracker alone from the countdown phase then it moved to the tracking phase, the countdown would briefly show a negative number. And we hope you're ready for tracking starting in just 10 days. The scope of the refactor before April 2023 will be limited to just the tracker - I'm unfortunately a college student with a part-time job so there's only so much I can code, and this is what I believe can be done in the next 3 months. We'll be making sure that all of the external tools we use will be up-to-date! The Easter Bunny arrives at stops! If there isn't enough space, the text won't be added. TOBCC, as we're coining it, is currently being set up with Version 4.5.4 of TEBCC. However, tablets did have some known issues where a horizontal shift should occur, but it didn't. track.easterbunny.cc upgraded to Version 6.1.4, Posted: April 2, 2023 During tracking, you'll now see more 60-second updates in highly populated areas, as we find it adds some excitement to tracking. After TEBCC's run in April 2020, we'll transition over to working more on TOBCC. It will also detect errors with timeouts/network connectivity/request aborts. The main Twitter will be tweeting general status updates every 20-30 minutes. The issue has been resolved with better callback code. Lastly, I hope you will think of the 10,000's of people who won't have their loved ones with them for any more Easters. The Easter Bunny, meanwhile, is believed to have been brought to the U.S. by German . The track.easterbunny.cc Twitter bot also ran exceptionally well, and had no issues throughout the course of tracking to post tweets. I know everyone is a little scared about what is happening in the Ukraine. All of this meant that by the end of tracking, as calculated with our new insights system and through the Geo API, we had a total hit count of Posted: April 11, 2022 A fun little addition, flags are now present on the last stop and next stop boxes, showing the flag of the country that the stop is in. It's Owen here. 3 - Open source community! Share this articleShare this article: https://track.easterbunny.cc/news/#pid-15. The anticipated launch date is in mid-March, with no specific date set. The tracker is comsidered pre-QA (quality assurance) complete. In the next 4 weeks, we're planning to run lots, and lots of QA on the tracker. Added some FAQs to the FAQ page, along with social media information. Share this: (Note: If Safari 16.4 is released before the tracker launches, we will patch in support as Apple is changing how fullscreen is being handled in 16.4!) Framework, design language, it's all up in the air intentionally. Today we're announcing track.easterbunny.cc v5.6.1, with some refinements and other improvements right before tracking. Or maybe it still showed the URL bar? Share this articleShare this article: https://track.easterbunny.cc/news/#pid-43. How Does the Easter Bunny Tracker Work? Fixed a major issue where the zoom level argument would not work with the tracker. Updated: April 8, 2020 Posted: May 10, 2020 Check out some of his Easter Egg hunt clues for yourself! The year that we thought the tracker would grow a bit, but not by much. You can enable a setting to see the Easter Bunny's local arrival time in settings. Share this articleShare this article: https://track.easterbunny.cc/news/#pid-94. A couple days ago, we said the famous words "this will likely be the last release of the tracker". When you first switch to the metric and approximate location is being used (by default), you'll receive an alert informing you that you can visit settings to improve the precision of the metric. Reordered the reset & advanced settings placement in the settings window. The Easter Bunny Tracker, a downloadable app and website, adds a little extra kid-friendly magic to the spring holiday by allowing kids to track the Easter Bunny in real-time starting on Easter Eve. While doing QA, we've found just under 300 bugs or areas of improvement for the tracker, and we're busy ensuring that the tracker works as best as it can for everyone come Easter. We're hoping we can be exclusively QA testing the new tracker by February 1st and we're on track to hit this mark. Added internal analytic insights so it's easier for us to see what's happening with the tracker (via the Geo API), Twitter updates on our main page are now every 30 minutes rather than 15 minutes. With track.easterbunny.cc Version 7, you'll now easily be able to listen to the pronunciation of a city name! Posted: February 20, 2023 We're committed to making the best tracker on the internet, and as such have had to sacrifice additional content on our website for this to happen. This means that the info icon is at the bottom of the stack. We've improved coverage in the Eastern US, Australia, Japan, China, and India for this year, in addition to a variety of improvements across the globe. Our first idea is an overall progress metric so you can get a birds-eye view of how the Easter Bunny's journey is going so far. This is what's powering us to detect even more stops in the United States. It has truly been an honor to do all this learning in such a unique and awesome way with TEBCC. Track the Easter Bunny and Celebrate Orthodox Easter with us here at the Sonicboom363 community! There's a new menu in settings called Metric Settings, which will house the settings that go along with this fancy new feature. We've added a proper terms of service to the website, describing what you can and can't do with our tracker (tl;dr: you can almost do whatever you want with our tracker so long as it isn't illegal). With the open-sourcing of the tracker, Version 4.5.4 of track.easterbunny.cc has been released with a few minor changes. If you're using a VPN with the tracker, we'll calculate the estimated arrival time at the VPN server. Making the optimized live stream settings MUCH better Previously, stops happened precisely on the minute, but this year you'll notice that some arrival times won't occur on the minute. You can find the repository for track.easterbunny.cc at https://gitlab.com/track-easterbunny-cc/tebcc. We estimate that during the crossover from pre-tracking to tracking at 5 AM EDT, nearly 220 people were using our site, and everyone was redirected without issue. We thought COVID meant that our tracker grew so much last year - we couldn't possibly replicate 800% growth, let alone 200% growth again. Share this articleShare this article: https://track.easterbunny.cc/news/#pid-72. This means you can easily keep an eye on all your favorite metrics without flipping between them! Hello everyone! We also got lots of feedback that many places around the world were lacking in the amount of stops shown on the tracker, and we've also learned a thing or two about presenting more stops in the tracker. Multi-metrics support - finally! It now updates synchronously. Posted: May 23, 2020 This also extends to time & number formats in the tracker, they'll now be synced with your locale. TOBCC will start on Version 0.5.4, with the first version of TOBCC based on the first public v5 release of TEBCC. After the March 29 release date, we'll be working hard on more of the infrastructure & social side of the tracker. We discovered that rendering the arrival time was about 70% of the time spent when placing a basket on the map, so it's been removed. At this time, we're only focused on building the best Easter Bunny Tracker that we can. During late-stage tracker testing, we discovered that the tracker had a couple areas where things were performing slower compared to v5.6, so this patch gets all that sorted out. Posted: April 18, 2022 Tracker Customization - It's here! Share this articleShare this article: https://track.easterbunny.cc/news/#pid-138. A bunch of other smaller changes: Enjoy some calming chill music. We did a much better job in 2020 at our social media presence than 2019. Posted: April 12, 2020 There's some stops that will show their timezone as it's intended to be formatted locally, so don't fret if you see odd characters in that field. We also added support for unit systems (automatically set for your locale), so the unit-sensitive metrics & data in the tracker appear correctly. Smoother tracker experience So, what's new in v5.6? Version 5 is a collection of useful features & fixes that we weren't able to implement in Version 4 due to time limitations. New FAQ/News page style - As the number of FAQs & News articles gets longer and longer, in the coming weeks, we'll be switching the FAQ & News pages to accordion-based lists. Get a reminder to come back to easter-bunny.net Persistent uncenter/recenter Easter Bunny button (during tracking) - Did you know that last year you could click the Easter Bunny to uncenter and recenter the map? I also have to deal with the impending shutdown of the Dark Sky API in other projects of mine (including TEBCC), so that sadly eats into dev time. Here's what's new. Navigation arrows in stop data - This feature is 100% complete. You'll see this change in various places around the globe as we've switched to depicting 90 seconds between stops sometimes. You have to release the source code of the entire system under GNU AGPL v3. On the smoothest option, metrics can update at 25 FPS, and the map can update at 20 FPS! That is normal. Brazil came in eighth with 1,740 requests. Bunny bouncing effect is here! Configurable default zoom level . It'll be more modern, with a new settings panel to customize aspects of the tracker experience, applied throughout the countdown, pre-tracking, and tracking. Today, I am announcing our 1st annual Orthodox Easter Bunny Tracker Live Stream! Share this articleShare this article: https://track.easterbunny.cc/news/#pid-62. @EasterControl: Better than EGGS-pected! We've ditched this in favor of a persistent button that appears during tracking. Share this articleShare this article: https://track.easterbunny.cc/news/#pid-144. v3.7.2 of the Easter Bunny Tracker makes some critical fixes to the website, along with some feature improvements & enhancements. Share this articleShare this article: https://track.easterbunny.cc/news/#pid-37. Posted: March 22, 2020 There's also converting our weather data provider from Dark Sky to Apple Weather in the coming months due to the Dark Sky API shutting down soon. We changed the .5 hours to the symbol. Updated the behavior of the donation banner, it now shows up with a 50% chance, after 2 minutes of usage, and shows up for 15 seconds. At the same time, we've kept the design language that our tracker has had for five years now, just 3 boxes at the top. Due to the situation with Covid-19, it has changed how Version 5 will be developed. New feature to enable stop arrival times when hovering over baskets on the map. And show information when clicked! EasterBunnyTracker.com is a backup site for TrackEasterBunny.com in case too many bunny-watchers overload the original site!. This year - you pushed the tracker up to 265 hits per minute (an eye-watering 4.42 hits/second). Second precision is shown for the arrival time in extended stop data if the stop does not occur on the minute (or the surrounding stops aren't on the minute), Known issues page has been rewritten and is now directly linked in the tracker, A warning will now appear if the tracker loads and the Geo API cannot be loaded, The tracker now has a loading bar to show you the progress of syncing tracker data. Updated the privacy policy to reflect that opt outs are no longer available for the 2020 run of the tracker. As mentioned in our last post, v6 is a complete redo of the tracker and we've already made lots of progress to date. You can now hover your mouse (on desktop) over the weather icon to read out the weather summary for that stop. For anyone making thumbnails, or anyone that needs the site icon: We have a new icon assets page that allows you to download the site icon in a variety of sizes. Mobile metrics - The mobile metrics feature is 95% done. And that's just what I did. What about the NORAD Easter Bunny Tracker? Just note that enabling this will cause increased CPU usage, and lower battery life on mobile devices. Where's v6? Birds twitter, not bunnies! Do you mean like Finding Nemo? But, I hope those people will understand and remember that I do still love them very much. We hope you like it. So, don't worry about me. Without further ado, here's the full list of changes. New Zealand came in seventh with 2,490 requests. Baskets prepared metric during pre-tracking Posted: April 7, 2020 With 62 days until liftoff, we're continuing to work on the tracker. Share this articleShare this article: https://track.easterbunny.cc/news/#pid-114. Easter Bunny Tracking Has Begun! This will be the longest of the development updates, as we're currently working through the busy phase of adding features to the tracker. If this is annoying, you can head to the tracker tab of settings and enable nudging down the top boxes which does exactly that! You should now be seeing this in search engines. Share this articleShare this article: https://track.easterbunny.cc/news/#pid-84. Additional Metrics! Going open source means that anyone can see the code that powers the Easter Bunny tracker. We're obsessed with helping the world keep track of the Easter Bunny. track.easterbunny.cc Version 4 - Development Update 3, Posted: March 1, 2020 - We're working on updating the FAQ, Privacy Policy, Acknowledgements, and News pages to bring you back to the countdown or the tracker depending on what state they're in. And given this transition has to occur in multiple projects outside of TEBCC, we're leaving an entire month for this conversion - April 1st is the expected finish date here. Added browser locale information to the diagnostic information in settings. The United States came in 1st with an eye-watering 1.05 million requests, and traffic peaking at 10 PM EDT on April 16. It's with great pleasure that I announce the 5th and final major version of track.easterbunny.cc - Version 7 for 2024. We're hoping to hit this mark by March 1st for all infrastructure to be ready by then. Our service lets you keep track as the Easter Bunny travels around the world. Site slogan update (again) - Now, the slogan is "Track the Easter Bunny in real-time with our Easter Bunny Tracker as the Easter Bunny delivers baskets and eggs to homes around the world!". Share this articleShare this article: https://track.easterbunny.cc/news/#pid-141, Posted: April 15, 2023 You can switch using a button on the right side of the metrics box, or in settings. Try to find them! And lots of other features, including: track.easterbunny.cc Version 5 - Development Update 1, Posted: July 1, 2020 - For everyone who used the countdown as part of your stream last year, the position of it has unchanged this year. Posted: March 16, 2019 Box reshuffle This year focuses on some minor refinements to the tracking experience. Share this articleShare this article: https://track.easterbunny.cc/news/#pid-4. Share this articleShare this article: https://track.easterbunny.cc/news/#pid-12. Reset settings has gone back home to the bottom of the stack, and advanced settings is now above reset settings. While things looked promising in the early hours of tracking, unfortunately, we suffered from technical issues that meant the tracker failed to load about 25% of the time until about 5 PM ET on Easter Eve, with residual issues after this time. 200% easier to navigate the settings window. Share this articleShare this article: https://track.easterbunny.cc/news/#pid-108. * Using moment.js, we now localize the time format to your area. Time for a bit of history. Share this articleShare this article: https://track.easterbunny.cc/news/#pid-102. New feature for streamers to disable the distance from you metric in the cycle of metrics so it cannot accidentally be shown on streams. Share this articleShare this article: https://track.easterbunny.cc/news/#pid-105. This new tracker also has a twitter account (@trackorthobunny). track.orthodoxbunny.cc is our Orthodox Easter Bunny Tracker! Fixed issues with inconsistent behavior of the local storage unavailable link popping out in a new tab (it should not have done that). As a compromise, you may see a banner asking you to donate when you use the tracker. You don't have to worry about me. You can see five (5!!) And with better stop detection mentioned earlier, we'll have more accurate arrival times this year! Major stop detection improvements - This is about 90% done. We're pretty excited for this feature to finally hit the tracker, and we can't wait for you to explore it. Fixed a bug where zoom keys during tracking would not work due to improper styling. Posted: April 1, 2020 Orthodox Version of track.easterbunny.cc - In the original post about Version 5, I mentioned that the Orthodox tracker will be hosted on orthodox.track.easterbunny.cc. On phones that have tall aspect ratios (thus showing 3 boxes in landscape), we've made it so that the changes you make to the metric box in landscape sync to the metric shown in the next stop box. Refined Material Design UI - we're now using Material Design Bootstrap v5. Still no ads in the tracker? Clicking on these arrows will step you back (and forward) one stop in the stop information window, without having to click out of it, then find the previous stop, and click that basket.
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