Old news
- January 2, 2008 We wish everyone a wonderful and happy new year – and many more exciting trips and rides, new trails to discover and enjoy; and of course, to log or share on MTBGuru.
- September 12, 2007 Cheers to our 1000th registered user! And with more than 3000 uploads so far there’s plenty of interesting routes to discover on the site – we hope to keep up the growth.
- August 26, 2007 Due to routing problems at the data center that hosts our server, we’ve been off the air for quite a while on Saturday and Sunday. The problems seems to have been resolved now, and as far as we can judge, everything is working fine again. Our apologies for the inconvenience!
- August 22, 2007 We’re enjoying the summer and doing some big rides, and so do you seem to do, given the large number of pretty cool looking trips being posted. We haven’t gone entirely into summer recess though – stay posted for some new features and site improvements we hope to present here soon. Also, keep an eye on the blog for what we’re up to.
- May 24, 2007 Just gotten out of beta, we experienced our first down time in 5 months past night (DNS problems at our host)... Murphy anyone? Anyway, the problem is fixed and everything is running again.
- April 29, 2007 The jeepx blog features MTBGuru and concludes: ‘Kudos for MTBGuru and its use of Ajax for creating a nice experience with its easy of use and clean interface. You can get out of Beta now.’
- April 28, 2007 We updated the way you can manage your trip privacy settings – read more here!
- April 27, 2007 A bug causing problems with picture upload for users of Microsoft Internet Explorer has been cleared – things should be working fine again. We plan on setting up an (improved) support forum, meanwhile you can always keep reporting bugs to mtbguru@mtbguru.com or keep an eye on this blog page.
- April 5, 2007 Google’s latest ‘My Maps’ feature allows you to manually create your own map content, and combine it with MTBGuru trip data while you’re at it – read more here.
- March 21, 2007 Mars on Earth, on how to make a long transatlantic flight more entertaining using a GPS and camera…
- Feb 18, 2007 Full Safari support! The map rendering problem is fixed and everything is working smoothly, so now also Safari users can enjoy the site in its full glory using their favorite browser!
- Feb 13, 2007 We’ve deployed a brand new and much improved search tool! You’ll find it in the sidebar and it does a direct and complete search on our database – try it out or read more about it in this post. Have fun searching for new trips or rides!
- Feb 2, 2007 You can now set your default home map on any area and zoom level by using the button ‘Set Home’ in the top right corner of the map, which will save the current view. Read more about this in this blog post.
- Jan 21, 2007 Mapshark is a new ‘meta-mapping’ site offering a.o. a Google co-op search engine on maps and mapping aps. In related news, GPS Tracklog added us to his custom search engine on GPS.
- Dec 7, 2006 Google Earth Blog talks about MTBGuru and the recent ‘explosion of GPS mapping tools and websites’.
- CA bikers, check out Steve Wolf’s website as well as the Ogrehut, you’ll find a wealth of links and mtb information, as well as very cool videos.
