What’s new on the bmy.guide app?
November, 2023
✔️ Introducing the bmy.guide Chat — a secure and private way of sending messages and sharing thoughts with fellow users. The new chat feature guarantees:
- 100% privacy and security
- Your messages are exclusively for your eyes
- All conversations are automatically erased every 24 hours, even from our database.
Chat options: search for a user, start a conversation, send messages, send emoji, delete conversation, delete conversations every 24 hours, start a chat with a user from its personal profile.
✔️ Introducing a new, better and improved interface of the bmy.guide App
Experience the enhanced features of our latest update that simplifies your exploration of what truly matters to you. The interface is organized into tabs for each category, allowing seamless navigation to your preferred content:
1. Explore Tab: Discover the world’s places by simply typing in any locality or country. Discover the best places to dine, top accommodations, or the most thrilling activities. Easily locate nearby destinations and countries. The ‘View all’ option presents a list of the most highly rated places, sorted by the number of flaps received.
2. Guideline Tab: Your new home for all posts and videos. Every user-generated post goes directly to the Guideline tab. Use this section to draw inspiration or keep up with your friends’ latest posts.
3. What’s New Tab: Stay updated on freshly unlocked activities, dining spots, and accommodations. Meet the newest members of our community, explore newly added places on the app, and stay informed about our latest updates.
4. Earn Tab: Here are all the opportunities to earn extra Guide Points through challenges, programs, and more. Engage in the Turbo Quiz Challenge, explore the Referral program, participate in the Staking program, and discover additional ways to accumulate Guide Points.
5. Stats Tab: For those with curious minds, the Stats tab provides an in-depth look at bmyguide’s performance. Visit anytime to stay informed about the app’s statistics and insights.
✔️In the most recent update, you’ll notice a fresh appearance for your published posts.
✔️ Bug fixes: fixed the posting time based on your VIP level; video postcards preview; flap counter on official pages and many others.
October, 2023
✔️Guideline optimisation: — improving the scrolling speed — improving the loading time of the information — changes to the carousels designs — preloading information while scrolling — improving the loading speed while opening a postcard — improving the image quality of your postcards
✔️Video feature — fixing the edit feature of a postcard containing a video
✔️New elements added to the Guideline:
- New Accommodations Added — a list of the latest places to stay added to the app
- New Places to Eat Added — a list of the latest places to eat added on the app
- More cities to explore — a list of the most appreciated cities on bmyguide
- Most Rewarded Users — the top 5 rewarded users in the last 24
✔️ New rate for 1 Guide Point: $0.025
✔️ Improving Turbo Quizz Challenge design and functionality
✔️Bug fixes and improvements
September, 2023
✔️ Introducing the Staking Program — stake Guide Points for a 12% annual return. Stake from 25,000 up to 1,000,000 Guide Points. Learn more about the Staking Program here
✔️ Upload videos up to 30 seconds
✔️ Add videos up to 100MB and up to 30 seconds. No format restrictions for Android users, while iOS users are limited to .mp4 format files
✔️ Overall design improvements and changes and other bug fixes
✔️ Add links to your posts or comments
✔️ Introducing Real-Time Location Maps: Now, when selecting a location for your post, you can instantly view the post’s location before publishing.
✔️ New ‘Watch More Videos’ Design: Enjoy more details about the video you’re watching, displayed directly on the video.
✔️ Real-time updates on Turbo Quiz Challenge: Stay updated in real-time on the status of the 1,000,000 Guide Points Giveaway from our Turbo Quiz Challenge.
✔️ Simplified Video Upload Criteria: Find video upload requirements directly on the Make a Post page, ensuring you never miss the chance to share your best moments.
✔️ Quicker ‘Refer a Friend’ Access: Participate effortlessly in our ‘Refer a Friend’ campaign, accessible directly from the Guideline.
✔️ Instant access to VIP Membership: Get VIP Membership directly from the Guidelines, making the process quick and hassle-free.
✔️ Bug fixes and improvements
August, 2023
✔️ Introducing the Referral Feature — Enjoy all the features with an Activated Account! Activate your account with a unique Activation Code from an already existing user. Read more about Referrals here
✔️ Sign up with Gmail or iCloud
July, 2023
✔️ New Exclusive Offers added
✔️ Introducing the Turbo Quiz Challenge — Take part in an incredible, quick, and ingenious challenge that will test your knowledge and skills. Play a game against another bmyguide user to show off your skills. For any challenge you win, you get 1 Guide Point
✔️ Posting videos is now available
✔️ Changes and improvements to VIP Membership
✔️ Overall design improvements and changes and other bug fixes
June 12, 2023
✔️ Introducing ‘Gifts’ — This option allows you to send Guide Points as gifts to other users
✔️ Removing the ‘Diamonds’, ’Sending Diamonds’
✔️ New Exclusive Offer added: 10% discount on ‘Ristorante da Nicolino’, awarded one-star Micheline
✔️ Publishing a Post Summary: Adding a summary describing the impact of your post to understand the effect of your better
✔️ 24-hour Activity Summary: introducing a new feature that provides a summary of your app activity over the past 24 hours
✔️ Comprehensive App Statistics: To give you a better understanding of the app’s performance, we’ve added detailed overall statistics. You can find it at the beginning of the Guideline under the ‘Statistics’ tab.
✔️New Exclusive Offer added: 10% discount on ‘La Mimi Villa’
✔️ Bug fixes
May 20, 2023
✔️ Introducing new bmy.guide Partners (find it in the Exclusive Deals section)
✔️ Introducing the Near Me feature: Discovering what’s around you has never been easier. With this new addition, you can effortlessly explore nearby attractions, dining options, accommodations, users, interesting landmarks, and recent posts — all tailored to your current location.
To activate this feature, simply grant bmy.guide access to your location. Accessing the Near Me option is possible by clicking on the Pin icon, next to the notification icon in the top right corner.
You can also access the Near Me feature from the search page, by clicking on the ’Near Me’ section.
✔️ Changes to the ’Search’ feature
✔️ Option to Login using your solely your email address
✔️ Overall design improvements and changes and other bug fixes
May 2, 2023
✔️ Introducing ‘Enjoy Exclusive Offers’ feature. You can now find a list of all our partners who offer special discounts and offers if you hold the VIP Badge. Learn more about the VIP Badge and how to get it by checking out the Achievements section, under the VIP Badge section.
✔️ Adding a new feature: the VIP Badge. Find it in the My Profile, Achievements section.
✔️ Introducing a new Wallet section: Add Ethereum Wallet. This feature allows you to activate your VIP Badge.
With the VIP Badge, you can enjoy exclusive deals from our partners all around the world. The VIP Badge comes with 5 levels, and completing each level unlocks more exclusive offers in our partner locations. As you progress through the levels, you’ll get access to even greater discounts in the future.
✔️ Option to save a post as a draft if you’re quitting the app or leave the ‘make a post’ section
✔️ Overall design improvements and changes, bug fixes
April 10, 2023
✔️Added Pin location feature (available on any postcard) - leads you directly to the postcard location
✔️ New section ‘What’s new/Resources’ added on the menu
✔️ Design changes and improvements
✔️ Added new Achievement: Newcomer
✔️ Added new Achievement: Trending Ambassador
✔️ Added new Achievement: Ambassador
✔️ Limiting the number of daily postcards to one
✔️ Adding word counters to the ‘make a post’ section.
✔️ Other changes and bug fixes
April 10, 2023
✔️ Introducing a new feature — Achievements — available on your own profile or on any user’s profile, located within the ‘Achievements’ section. With this option, you can earn badges for completing various tasks within the app. Each achievement has five levels for users to progress through, and unlocking level one will grant you the badge.
✔️ Other bug fixes
March 29, 2023
✔️ Changing the number of daily rewarded postcards to 3: all users are now rewarded for a maximum of 3 postcards published every day
✔️ Users’ ‘Statistics’ feature improvements
✔️ Improvements to the Guideline feature: hide already seen postcards
✔️ Adding new feature ‘What’s new’
✔️ Other bug fixes
March 24, 2023
✔️ Notifications section: introducing a new feature that groups notifications by sections. This means that notifications will be organized based on their respective categories or topics, making it easier for users to locate and view specific notifications. This new feature should help users to better manage their notifications and stay on top of important updates.
✔️ Introducing a new feature: “Statistics” — this option is now available to all users of our application. You can access this feature by going to the “My Profile” section of the app and clicking on the “Statistics” tab. You can also view other users' statistics by visiting their profiles. The purpose of the statistics page is to provide users with a comprehensive overview of their activity on the app. This includes information such as the number of posts you have made, the number of comments you have received, and your overall engagement levels, the locations you have unlocked, the global & national rank you earned and many others. With this new feature, users can gain a deeper understanding of their performance on the app and use this information to improve their experience.
✔️ Introducing a preview of the bmy.guide Marketplace — available on the top-right menu, this feature is currently under development and it serves for presentation purposes only.
March 15, 2023
✔️ Users who have created their accounts starting with January 1st, 2023, who have added their location and published at least 40 postcards will now be recognized as Albatross Ambassadors
✔️ Top National Teams, Top Ambassadors, Top Cities, and Top Countries now feature informational tooltips accessible through the (i) icon on the top right of each page. These tooltips provide a detailed description of the features presented on each page.
✔️ An info tooltip has been added to the ‘Wallet’ section, providing users with a more detailed description of every feature of their wallet.
✔️ Users can now arrange the data provided in any of the Tops pages by selecting the ^ icon.
✔️ You can find out the user who has unlocked an official page. This feature is displayed on the cover image of every official page and you can check their profile by tapping on their name.
✔️ Each Postcard now displays the Diamonds reward value in $ US with a conversion rate of 100 Diamonds = 1 GUIDE token.
✔️ The option to translate a postcard in and from every language has been added.
✔️ When creating a post, users can now see the real-time reward they will receive. To learn more about the rewards for your posts, simply access the ‘Learn more’ button available in the top-right corner.
✔️ The database has been updated.
✔️ Other bugs and fixes.
March 10, 2023
✔️ My Profile and User Profile have been redesigned.
✔️More of your added content is now displayed on any postcard.
✔️ You can now add up to 2000 words to your personal Bio by going to Edit Profile -> Bio to share anything you want us to know about you.
✔️ We’re introducing the Genesis Ambassadors: Ambassadors who have created their accounts between January 1st, 2018 and January 1st, 2023, have at least 10 shared posts in this period, and have added their location to their profile.
✔️ The browsing and searching speed on the application has been improved.
✔️ Insta-flap: this feature now allows you to send a flap instantly.
✔️ You can now see the list of your most rewarded postcards or other users’ most rewarded postcards by tapping on the Diamonds icon on the profile.
✔️ You can also see the list of your watchers or other users’ watchers by tapping on the Watchers icon on the profile.
✔️ Introducing ‘filters’ on Top National Teams, Top Countries, Top Cities and Top Ambassadors pages.
✔️ Other changes and bug fixes
March 4, 2023
✔️Users can now earn rewards (Diamonds) for their first 7 daily posts instead of 3. To learn more about the rewards, click here.
✔️ You can now reply to comments by clicking the ‘reply button’ located next to the user’s comment.
✔️ Introducing the top features on the bmyguide app: Top Cities, Top National Teams, Top Countries, and Top Ambassadors.
✔️ The option to send more than one Diamond as a reward has been added.
✔️ The number one ambassador from the ‘Trending Ambassadors’ list is now rewarded with 💎2000 every day.
✔️ Introducing the ‘Global Rank’ feature, which enables you to see the rank of a specific place (city, country) or user in the global ranking of bmy.guide.
✔️ Other Bug fixes and changes to the app designs
