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After 4.1 update, still no vehicle ID and Block ID showing on the vehicles

Developer Response ,

Hi fip999,

Per our email conversation, it looks like there was a bug for iOS 15 devices that prevented the annotation detail from being shown when selecting a bus or stop. With the v1.0.3 update released today, this issue should be resolved and it should now be possible to view the IDs for a particular vehicle.

Appreciate you bringing this to my attention and please don’t hesitate to reach out again if you run into any additional problems or have any suggestions!

Cheers,
Alex

Best app for SF MUNI (and it’s not close!)

Long time SF resident. There’s no other app that is simultaneously as accurate & simple as Busly. I’ve been loving this app since Busly’s predecessor (SF MUNI) and now it’s even better. Magnificently streamlined GUI and 99% accurate departure times. I trust this app more than Google Maps, which gives decent scheduled times but sometimes lacks real-time data.

Terrible replacement

This replaced an app that allowed you to have a list of your routes at the top. When you clicked on a route, it would show the list of stops in order. Now there’s no way to see the list at the top. There are more steps necessary to see the list of stops. Even worse, the listed stops are all out of order. This makes the app so difficult to use that it’s almost pointless to even bother.

Developer Response ,

Hi Elle,

Sorry to hear you’re not satisfied with the way things are currently set up in the new app. The stop ordering is definitely currently an issue that I’m working on fixing, it’s just something that ended up being a bit more complicated than I initially thought since each route actually can have multiple valid ways of ordering the stops (some routes have 5 different variants, for example). I’m hoping to add support for a UI that makes this super clear and let’s you select the order you’re interested in (for example outbound vs inbound).

The Busly app in its current state is just the beginning of my plans for this app and you can expect to see big improvements over the next few months which I’m working as hard and as fast as I can to deliver on on.

Please don’t hesitate to reach out via the in app Support button if you have any additional comments or feedback.

Cheers,
Alex