What's on
in
Noord

Additions

• Highlights: smaller cards that move along by themselves on a large screen, with a pause button.

Improvements

• VRAAG uses a stronger Mistral language model: shorter and clearer answers, and faster.
• Tighter control of the daily cost of the language model.

Additions

• News: now also headlines from Radio Boven IJ, the local broadcaster of Noord. If a story is also at AT5, we show it once.

Improvements

• Stories about allegations and integrity are kept for a shorter time, like stories about crimes.

Additions

• News in VRAAG: AT5 headlines about Noord, unchanged and with a link to the article at AT5. You search by place and topic, not by name.

Improvements

• The privacy statement now also covers News.

Additions

• Choice bar in VRAAG: choose where VRAAG searches, in the agenda, housing, government or all of Noord.
• Below an answer from VRAAG you find a link to the overview of that topic.

Improvements

• When you choose Housing or Government, VRAAG only shows sources on that topic.
• A calmer header on the homepage: you pick topics in VRAAG, and topics that are not ready yet are no longer in the bar.
• Smaller example questions below the search field.

Additions

• More of Noord switch: turn it on to see the topics and let VRAAG search all of Noord: agenda, homes, projects, official notices and meetings.
• Every answer from VRAAG about all of Noord lists its sources, numbered and with a link.

Improvements

• VRAAG answers appear in a calm column; activities as cards with the date beside them.
• Topics without their own data are shown in the bar as coming soon.

Improvements

• VRAAG recognises places by part of the name or with a typo, such as Stretch or Ceuvel, and puts what is on there first.
• Dancing also finds studio sessions and moving to music, not only club nights.
• If a place has nothing on right now, VRAAG names the next activity there.

Improvements

• Housing and Government are shown in the topic bar as coming soon; the buttons do not open a page yet.

Improvements

• New topic bar: soft coloured buttons with a simple icon, on mobile a row you swipe sideways.

Improvements

• The Housing guide no longer gives a house number for personal permits, and never a postcode.
• Government now shows what is coming: its own VRAAG, everything about your street or area, alerts and meeting summaries.

Improvements

• Housing can be found again through search engines and the menu. Permits and tree felling per street now have their own page, which search engines do not include.
• The English Government page can also be reached at /en/overheid/.

Additions

• Government in Noord: decisions and notices per street, district committee meetings, taking part and practical links.
• Housing renewed: map of Noord, tabs and My area (neighbourhood or postcode).
• Video for venues with their own YouTube channel, and trailers for films in the agenda; loaded only after a click.
• Noord on screen: videos about Noord from AT5 and the venues.
• Partner page: what UpNoord partners are and how to become one.
• Noord on Instagram, local guides and the contest rules (the contest starts soon).
• Privacy statement, at the bottom of every page.

Improvements

• Permits grouped per street, with a timeline per building project.
• Personal permits are shown without house number or map point.
• The Government menu item now opens its own page.
• Fonts come from our own server; Google no longer receives anything when you visit.
• Every form briefly says what we do with your details, with a link to the privacy statement.

Additions

• Highlights: three or six notable events of the coming days, with an explanation of how we choose.
• UpNoord partners: shown with the label Partner and in their own row, not paid.
• ADE in Noord: its own bar with a link to the overview and a label in the agenda.
• Regular moments at the top of venue pages, such as every Sunday.
• This version number with what is new.

Improvements

• A calmer agenda: one organiser's activities on a day grouped, repeats in plain words.
• Time, title and venue larger; the whole item is clickable.
• Filters on mobile on one row you swipe.
• Menu on mobile: the topics are behind Menu.
• Places in Noord with a large logo; the map shows a drawing while loading.
• Accessibility: filter buttons announce their state, focus stays in place, reduced motion is respected.