We have just rolled a new release of Bouldr out, which includes a big change to the climb editor; we felt that it could have been done better, so we changed it! The new climb editor is tabbed as opposed to having all of the details on one page, making the whole thing much prettier to look at, and much less intimidating.

Get notified of new climbs in your area with our Explorer Feeds. Explore to your area of interest on the explorer map, and then simply subscribe to the RSS feed. Whenever a new climb becomes available that matches your search, it will be added to your RSS feed for you.

We have also added del.icio.us support to our pages, so if you find a particularly interesting or useful page on Bouldr, you can easily add it to your del.icio.us bookmarks.

This release also contains a number of fixes and minor changes - too many to go into here, but enough to significantly improve Bouldr’s performance and usability. As always, if you have any feedback for us, we’d love to hear it!

Oh, and in other news, we note that Google has now expanded ‘Down Under’ (so to speak) - which is fantastic news! Hopefully, we’ll be seeing more of an expansion in the low-level imagery too, although I can already see that Stanage edge, and The Plantation are now clearly visible (Switch to Satellite view).

A little rooting about the web has given us a little bit of a confidence boost, as it would appear that a lot of you really like the idea behind Bouldr, and have been bookmarking us on del.icio.us! Thank you - we love to know that we are going in the right direction, and bookmarking us means a lot.

If you like Bouldr now, you’re going to love it soon, and as you appear to like using del.icio.us, we are going to integrate del.icio.us bookmarking into Bouldr itself, so that it becomes even simpler to add us to your favourite sites.

*Spread the word!*

As part of our ongoing improvements, we have added a major new feature to Bouldr - the ability to give us feedback! We want this process to be as open as possible, so the new feedback system takes the form of a forum; Anyone can add comments to it (so long as you are logged in), and anyone can read the comments that other members have added.

This feedback loop was always a feature we have planned to do, but it wasn’t ready on the day we wanted to launch, so it ended up taking a temporary back seat. Now that it has been rolled out, though, we hope that you will take the time to tell us how you think we are doing, and perhaps even mention some of the features you think we are missing.

Oh, and we have also rewritten the invite system - you can now actually see the invitation being sent to your friends, and customise it so that it actually consists of a message that comes from you.

In fact, this is a completely new version - we were unhappy with what we had created initially, so we started from scratch! We threw out all of the existing code, and began with a clean slate, and some better ideas.

What we have released today is a version of Bouldr with many new features, including the map-based explorer, the ability to invite your climbing buddies, a clearer climb submission page and loads other things.

We have a ton of new features in development, and even more ideas waiting to be unleashed, but for now, take a look around, and tell us what you think.

Oh, and if anyone is feeling flush, I’m still looking for sponsors for the run I am participating in - see this post for more info!