had no idea check-ins were a thing here

this is fantastic. Thanks for sharing @gregmorris

I remember I was playing with it with the foss alternative to Swarm (forget the name) and asked about it in the forms – does this means we can add location with the official iOS app and I missed it somehow?

This is a great idea. WordPress for iOS once had a feature to geotag posts, which would store the lat/long in custom fields. I would use those in a call to the Google Places API to get the actual place name. It was really neat… until they removed the geotag feature. 😢 This looks much easier!

@jtr Nope, you didn’t miss it. We have location support in the API but no actual UI for setting it yet! Until Micro Social.

@rscottjones They sort of haven’t been a thing until now. The plumbing is there but it has required custom apps and themes.

glad it has it! Checking in has been this itch I wanted to scratch for a while, is this hard to implement in the official app? It’s good to have options though.

@jtr Not hard exactly, just I always thought we would build something for this outside of the main app. I’ll have to revisit it now that there is some active support for locations.

ah, makes sense when you explain it this way. Wonder if this will become big (I hope so!)