# Updates on March 30, 2022 (Release 536) **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Created:** [March 30, 2022, 11:08pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/updates-on-march-30-2022-release-536/24644 "2022-03-30T23:08:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JamesChevalier](https://community.citystrides.com/user_avatar/community.citystrides.com/jameschevalier/32/2_2.png) [@JamesChevalier](https://community.citystrides.com/u/JamesChevalier)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 11:08pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/updates-on-march-30-2022-release-536/24644/1 "2022-03-30T23:08:04Z")
Alright, March was _ **huge** _ and I haven’t had time to post updates so let’s get into it… City updates were paused for most of March, because of a _massive_ data restructuring project. Those are back on, and the project was a massive success. You won’t see much/any difference from the changes, but that’s kind of the point – for example, the resulting traffic from [NYT Coverage - One Cure for Pandemic Doldrums: Walking Every Street in Your City](https://community.citystrides.com/t/nyt-coverage-one-cure-for-pandemic-doldrums-walking-every-street-in-your-city/24586) did _nothing_ to slow down or delay _anyone_. Prior to this data restructuring project, we would have all been delayed (either syncing and/or processing) for _many_ hours and probably several days. 💪 The tail end of March included some graphics work, which leads the way into a test I plan on running through April. I’m currently using Google Adsense for ads on the site, but I don’t like how this affects people’s privacy. So I’m going to see if replacing their ad system with custom ads that market CityStrides [merchandise](https://citystrides.myspreadshop.com/) and subscriptions can generate the income that was coming from Adsense. - 🚀 made the progressed/completed counts update live when processing is complete - you don’t have to refresh the page to see those counts as they’re calculated - 🚀 improve city/street search performance - 🚀 improve the performance of the background LifeMap generation jobs - 🖌 redesigned the sign up/in pages - 🧪 testing out the idea of replacing google ads with custom (read: terrible) ads for merchandise & subscriptions - 🛠 major data storage overhaul which took most of March to complete & included a database upgrade and a significant reworking of some background jobs - one side effect of this is that very long (over 200 miles) activities are not processed any more 😠 people out here tracking inter-country flights as walks - 🛠 add some info to the privacy page - 🐛 🛠 made some progress on an issue where some MapMyFitness activities don’t have GPS data via their API, but the activity does have location data - 🐛 fix bug where runkeeper sync can’t re-queue itself if something goes wrong - 🐛 try to avoid ferries in Route Builder; I use “try” here because if a ferry is the only way to get from point a to point b, then it will use the ferry - 🐛 changed the button on the LifeMap to only show the Become A Supporter message once - 🐛 allow anonymous route viewing, if the route is configured to allow that - 📊 update the status page to more accurately reflect some updated job queues - 🤓 package updates