What's New on Magpiealert for 2024?
This year I thought it was time the old magpiealert website had a bit of a makeover, so it's been a busy couple of months working evenings and weekends to bring in these changes, I hope you like like them!
Kind regards, Jon Clark
New Features:
New Features
New cleaner fresher look - The whole site has been given a makeover. The content space and map is larger to making better usage of space for larger monitors.
Swoop icons will fade over time in 3 increments to allow you to just risk a little better. Darker swoop icons are more recent withon 4 weeks and then fading in 4 weekly increments.
When a new swoop is registered other swoops in the close vicinity (100m radius) will be updated to still being active.
1 week
8+ weeks
When you know a magpie in your area has stopped swooping you can mark it as stopped.
My account details - is accessible to access from a drop-down menu from the main menu.
You can now edit and update your swoops!
Managing your swoops can now be carried out through the "manage and update my swoops" user account menu item. When you navigate to this page you will see a list of your swoops for this current season.
- when you click on the edit button it will enable the form details to be edited, you must click the Save button to save your changes.
- If you know that that bird is still swooping then click this button and it's active status will be updated.
- If you know that that bird has stopped swooping then click this button and it's active status will be updated and it will appear on the main map as a green icon.
- Ever dropped the swoop to the wrong location? Click this button open the map so you can move the swoop to the correct location, you must click the Save button to save your changes.
Safety Tips - has had a revamp and I've managed to work some magic with an AI engine to generate so nice graphics to go with the tips.
Statistics - I've updated the graphs on the Statistics page and made them filterable too.
What's next?
There are a few more features I'm working on, including, your stories editing, new maps providers, account disablement, facebook to direct account migration and product reviews.
Removed Features:
Removed Features
Facebook login - Meta decided that only businesses can use their social media login functionality so it is no longer available for enthusiast websites like Magpiealert. If you registered previously on the website through Facebook then please signup again through your Google social login or a direct username/password.
Advertising - Although I do my best to fund the website, times are tough so you'll find the odd advert that helps me breakeven. On the previous website, certain adverts were taking over the website so I've reduced the number of these ads and restricting them to allocated page slots only.
