Train Siding
BIG announcement! The next few weeks we’re gonna make some major changes to Train Siding. First of, the ads have disappeared from the feed and the app itself has already become significantly faster. This has a lot to do with changes we’ve made and will continue to make to our server. Next we’ll remove the event calendar and marketplace features, they’re barely used and we want to focus more on the sharing of photos and videos of trains and railways. Also the scheduling of posts will be phased out before the end of the year. After that there’s going to be a massive rewrite of the notifications and messaging functions. Both have grown beyond what was intended and have become too slow as a result of that. Also we want to focus more on maps. What we’re trying to do is create an overview of nearby railway stations and museums, show you were a lot of pictures have been taken, and maybe even try and show you to current locations of nearby trains (but that’ll be challenging, as almost every operator has his own online service for this, while others don’t share their data). Finally, we’re talking about a better integration with other platforms. But more on that later. Thank you all of contributing to Train Siding and we hope you’ll appreciate the things we’re working on.