• Event photos now load faster on the home screen • Improved security for multiplayer quest rewards • Behind-the-scenes reliability improvements

Bug fixes and stability improvements, including more reliable multiplayer quest tracking and smoother account management.

Refined the dark theme across the app — cleaner contrast, clearer separation between events, and more consistent colors and typography.

• New Phangan-branded map style — switch it on in Settings • Smoother map animations, faster image loading in chat and events • Quicker quest search and nearby lists • Better battery life while idle and during quest tracking • More reliable multiplayer location sync • Ended events no longer linger in the feed

What's new in 3.42: • Event details now show the whole poster instead of cropping it, with a one-line venue blurb under the location pin • Venue lookup is smarter — events at "Culture Club, Chaloklum" now link to the curated Culture Club card instead of the generic OSM tile • Stronger anti-cheat on quest check-ins: the app rejects spoofed GPS fixes and the server now bounces check-ins that would require teleporting between locations

What's new in 3.41: • Tap any event's mini-map to open Apple Maps with one-tap directions • Nearby radar lives next to General Chat in Friends — see who's around without leaving the conversation • Global chat surfaces for parity with friends-only DMs • First-launch on cellular now waits for Wi-Fi before pre-downloading the offline pack • Map skull FAB and "All Quests" pill cleaned up for a calmer Map tab

• Visual polish on map controls • Behind-the-scenes reliability improvements

• Quest creation form redesigned — primary action up top, optional «add second location» beneath • New skull-and-bones brand mark on the Quests tab map • Faster map: places, events, quests now render via cached state • Sign-out / sign-in across accounts no longer mixes data between users

Place photos now prefetch in the background on first launch — the Map and Places list show real images instantly on the second glance. Plus a friends-list deduplication fix so the same person can't show up twice. Plus eight visual polish fixes from the May UI sweep.

Premium dark refresh — deeper backgrounds and lifted cards on every screen, soft brand glow on your active quest, polished social, wallet, settings, rewards and quest details. Smarter push notifications — tapping a friend-request or quest notification now opens the matching profile or quest directly. Shared event/place/quest links work as universal links from the web.

What's new: • Server-side scoring — XP, levels and check-ins now validate on the backend, so the leaderboard reflects real play instead of local guesses • Leaderboard fix — addressed a race that could briefly show a stale podium just after results changed • Quests and rewards hardened — server-authoritative claim logic prevents double-rewards on flaky networks • Stability and security improvements across in-app purchases and remote configuration

What's new: • The "day" now rolls over at 02:00 — the Today tab no longer flips at midnight, so cross-midnight parties stay listed until 2am and the list refreshes for the new date afterwards • Removed "Jungle Space" venue — no findable Instagram or Google Maps presence on Koh Phangan • All venues now have photos (previously eight were missing) • Event detail: the hero image is pinned to the sheet width so wide landscape posters no longer push the title and buttons off the leading edge

What's new: • New branded app icon and launch screen — skull and crossbones • Pull-to-refresh refreshed: pull a list down to see the branded 3D skull • Search on Home — tap the magnifying glass for a quick search across events, places and quests with category badges • Event cards now pull venue photos even for rare spots (lazy lookup on first display) • "Who's Nearby" screen redesigned — light theme with orange radar

What's new: • Home: branded skull-and-bones pull-to-refresh + haptic feedback • Events start prefetching during onboarding • Top loading strip on the home screen until first event photos resolve • Skull pull-to-refresh on 6 screens (events, quests, activity, friends, requests, wallet) • Global chat: bottom tab bar smoothly hides when chat opens • Unique placeholder for events without their own poster — no more visual duplicates at the same venue • Event detail carousel: page dots only when there are multiple photos

What's new: • Pull-to-refresh: branded skull-and-bones indicator with haptic feedback • Global chat: bottom tab bar smoothly hides when chat opens, freeing space for the message input • Live countdown timers on quest cards • Today-only event feed with correct local time • Friends: new list, profiles, search • Global chat pinned under the tabs • Faster map and image loading

Performance pass: • Smoother scrolling on Home and Events list (shared image cache + thumbnail downsampling). • Pull-to-refresh now refreshes on every swipe. • Lower battery use when the Map tab isn't visible. • Cleaner location handling — fewer background wakeups.

Fresh daily events now load first on Home. Place recommendations are delayed and refreshed more efficiently. Friends search, profiles, requests, nearby discovery, and direct chat were improved for clearer actions, better feedback, and smoother performance.

Refreshed home screen — Choose Your Quest, Top Spots and Find Friends now live in the main hero carousel. Recommendations turned into a swipeable carousel of curated Phangan places. Cleaner sections: all 4 events visible right away, level/XP card always on, less clutter at the bottom.

Brand refresh: warm hot-orange accents across the app. Reorganized home: events and nearby picks lifted up; recommendations now sources curated best-of-Phangan. Smarter place cards (no oversized empty placeholders) and better deduplication in 'Popular Nearby'. Tap a venue inside an event to jump straight to all events at that place.

Cleaned up the Place card on the map: description, address/hours/phone and events at the location now sit above the check-in row, so reading what a place is comes before the gamified check-in. Quest-creation tooltip on the Quests tab redesigned with a circular sparkles badge and a separate P.S. chip. Map right-side stack rearranged: the create-quest / create-event button now sits directly above the centering button, with the count badge moved below. Fixed a duplicate "Fisherman's Restaurant" card on the home screen. Re-synced 115 place coordinates against Google Places — several venues that were mis-pinned in the sea or several kilometres off are now back where they actually are.

Refreshed home-screen artwork — both carousel banners now use new painterly Phangan illustrations (a hidden cove for quests, a Chinese-style beach bungalow for top spots), with a fix that brings the title and Start button back on top of the artwork (they were occasionally invisible on bright illustrations). Removed the level-up celebration popup that was interrupting the home screen.

Event posters now load reliably on the home screen, map, and events list — events that didn't ship with a photo automatically reuse the venue's image. Smoother first launch (no more side-selection pop-up, no welcome-bonus banner stealing focus). Daily login reward is more robust on a fresh install.

New on home: swipeable banner with shortcut to Top Phangan spots. New 'Best' category curated by locals — Bubba's, Friends Cafe, House of Sanskara, Wasabi, Senses, DAO, SALT, Why Nam. Cleaner first-launch experience.

Performance and stability improvements. We tightened the multiplayer quest, friends, and quest-loading internals so the app launches faster and stays smoother on long sessions. No gameplay changes.

Cleaner event cards: tap the side photo to view it fullscreen, and tap anywhere else to expand the details. The duplicate banner inside the expanded card is gone, so you see more of what matters.