The End Of The Map

Hi guys! Little update here that you all need to be aware of.

The BuddyBate map – which we have used for a while to show the location of the tens of thousands of community members who display lapel pins, buttons, stickers, tee-shirts, and more – has become unusable and needed to be deactivated.

Long story short, a serious security issue arose that they have failed to deal with, an error popped up that seemed impossible to resolve, and some data has been lost as a result. There seems to be little response regarding support.

Please be assured that the data was backed up and we can go through previous purchase lists to recover most of it, if not all of it.

It sucks, we loved having a map members could use to zoom in and see how many items there are in their area. But, security takes priority.

We’re moving to a more simple option of displaying all of this data on your local personals category page.

So, if you’re looking for meets in London, you can visit buddybate.com/category/london and see merch data and wank club counts at the top, and then the personal posts listed below.

This seems to be the best way to deliver this data. We always intended to make each category page for locations the hub for you to check in with whenever you wanted to find a connection with another bator in your area, so it makes sense to incorporate this data into those pages.

We’ll be looking for a way to display all of this data a little more succinctly, and as it’s a manual process to add all of this data to each category it’s going to take some time for every category page to include it.

Please bear with me while I work my fingers to the bone to add thousands of merch counts to each category.

If you feel like supporting, consider buying some buttons or lapel pins from our friends at BlokeToys. I’ll add the new purchases to the category pages asap.

Thanks for your patience.

Brad