A Smarter Location Filter for Explore
The Explore location filter now works the way you'd expect. Pick a place, see the opportunities near it. Plus virtual open calls get their own donut pin on the map.
- Anchor-driven location filter: pick a city, get opportunities near it
- Cleaner filter bar with active pills and a mobile filter sheet
- Auto-apply scope when picking a Mapbox anchor override
A Smarter Location Filter for Explore
Filtering opportunities by location used to be clunky. You'd pick a city, but the results would include anything tagged at the country level, the region level, or loosely "worldwide." Worse, picking a new city sometimes left the old filter lingering.
We rebuilt the location filter around a simpler idea: you pick one anchor (a city, a region, a country) and Artsume figures out what's actually near it.
How it works now
Open the Location filter on Explore and type a place. Pick a Mapbox result and the filter instantly applies the right scope: city-level if you picked a city, country-level if you picked a country. No extra clicks to confirm.
Active filters show up as pills above the results. One tap clears them. The whole filter bar got a light redesign: more readable on desktop, and a proper bottom-sheet on mobile so you can set filters with your thumb without fighting the keyboard.
Virtual opportunities, finally on the map
Before this, if an opportunity was virtual (a remote residency, an online exhibition, a fully-digital commission), it had nowhere to live on the map. Now virtual opportunities get their own donut pin: a round marker that floats above the rest of the map so you can see at a glance how many virtual calls are in the feed.
Under the hood
- Opportunity location scopes (city, region, country, virtual) are now fully populated in the database, so filters behave predictably
- The Explore URL now carries your anchor location as a query param, so sharing a filtered view actually works
- Legacy filter URLs still work: we added a shim so anything you've bookmarked continues to load correctly
Try it out on Explore. If something feels off, let us know at support@artsume.com.
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