I didn’t really have any big announcement planned, so no worries there.
And yes, I agree that we all owe @Keith a huge debt of gratitude for building supercharge.info and maintaining it for all these years. His efforts created a central place for this worldwide community of scavenger hunters to unite around. Thank you, Keith!
As the new caretaker of supercharge.info, I’m committed to keeping the site ad-free and open source. I think Keith made the right decision to use Patreon to support the site, and that’s the funding model I plan to continue with.
I do plan to eventually restart development on supercharge.info. In the near term there are some bugs to fix and small features to add, and thankfully @Pluto has stepped up and begun addressing those. In the longer term I’d like to see us modernize the site, especially for mobile devices, and add long overdue features such as support for multiple plug types and stall speeds at the same location, more tracked metadata about each location, and maybe even a leaderboard feature for the “Superchargers Visited” players.
Before handing things over to me, Keith put a lot of work into preparing the supercharge.info codebase to be fully open source. And now that anyone can view the source code, I’d love to see more contributions come in from the community as we restart development.
In my view, supercharge.info is, first and foremost, a source for reliable data about Superchargers, and I feel it is our responsibility to the community, and to the users of third party apps that consume our API, to provide accurate information about any Supercharger location that we know about.
Thanks to all the contributors here, on TMC, and elsewhere for providing the updates that make supercharge.info useful. And I’d like to take this opportunity to especially thank all the editors who curate our database. As Tesla has increased the cadence of Supercharger rollouts it has become quite time consuming to monitor all of the sources for updates. Fortunately, we have a global team of energetic editors on the job 24/7.
Cory