What's new in Explorio

Pages with fewer than 3 upcoming events (city, weekend, this-week, things-to-do, category and holiday pages) now ship a noindex tag and a friendly ‘This page is still being filled in — check back soon’ banner. The sitemap also drops those URLs until inventory recovers, so the search results you see on Google stay representative of what we actually cover.

Every event card now wears a typed verification badge so you can tell at a glance where the listing came from: green Verified for partner APIs (Ticketmaster, Eventbrite, Skiddle, Billetto, OpenAgenda) and organizer opt-ins, indigo Editorial pick for curated newsletters and editorial parsers (Time Out, Wonderland, Bucharest City App, GoOut), amber User-submitted for community submissions, and grey From <Source> when we sourced from the open web. Hover for a tooltip on desktop, tap for a bottom sheet on mobile, click to read the full verification process. The event detail page also gains a 'How we verified this event' section that surfaces the source URL, a High/Medium/Low confidence rating (no more raw numbers), and the last-verified timestamp.

Three new lifecycle emails round out the journey for signed-up families. Friday morning: a weekend digest with the top 5 picks for your saved city and one-click 'Save to plan' buttons. The day before any saved event: a friendly reminder with a hero image, countdown, and a practical-info trio (getting there, forecast, what to bring). Three days after a plan is started but barely touched: three complementary picks shaped around what's already in the plan. All three include a plain-text fallback, escape user-supplied content, and dispatch through the same Resend pipeline that powers the rest of the program.

Every lead-magnet delivery email (Burns Night Edinburgh, King's Day Amsterdam, Sinterklaas, Oktoberfest, Christmas Markets Berlin, Three Kings, Carnival Cologne, Fête des Lumières Lyon, Fêtes de Genève, Sint-Maarten and the rest of the 16-magnet library) now opens with a full-width hero image right under the gradient header. Each magnet has a curated public CDN image (Unsplash), with descriptive alt text for screen readers and an automatic max-height clamp so the layout stays mobile-friendly. Magnets without an attributed image fall back to the gradient-header-only layout — no broken images.

The homepage hero now leads with one clear utility line — "Cele mai bune evenimente și locuri pentru weekendul tău, verificate zilnic." — and a single primary CTA, "Explorează gratuit", that takes you straight to /events. Places, Ask AI and Near-me are now ghosted into a Quick links row so the next step is obvious. Pricing copy renames the paid tier from "Pro" to "Explorer — €4.99/lună sau €39.99/an", links to the full /pricing page, and adds a "7-day free trial · No card needed" trust badge.

Centralised every public-facing city count in src/config/public-stats.ts. The press kit, careers, guides, weekend ideas, promote, early access, and category SEO pages now all read from one async getter (CITY_COUNT_PUBLIC) instead of hardcoded 85+/75+/27+ strings that drifted out of sync with reality. The /stats page also gates the Registered users + Newsletter signups rows behind a 'Building our community — early access' placeholder while we're under 50 — no more reading like an abandoned platform to first-time visitors.

Added 10 new GA events covering the AI surface (query submitted, result shown, result click, no result, premium gate) and the data quality lifecycle (listing reported, duplicate detected, dead-link click, stale event seen, verification badge shown). Wired into the Ask AI page, both EventCard variants, and the event detail ticket button — all fire-and-forget so a tracking outage never blocks a user interaction.

The Family/Kids category was nearly empty everywhere except Helsinki and Bucharest. A new multilingual classifier (EN, RO, NL, FR, ES, IT, DE, PT) now recognises kid-friendly keywords, ages, puppet shows, story times, planetariums and petting zoos at insert time, and a new Family-Toddler sub-bucket surfaces ages 0–3 specifically. Curated recurring programs at NEMO, ARTIS, Tropenmuseum, MNAR, Cité des Enfants, CosmoCaixa, Explora Roma and 18 other flagship venues seed the catalog so the surface is never empty.

The Madeira Flower Festival page (and Atlantic Festival + Funchal NYE) now filter events by holiday tag and keyword match, so flower-festival-specific cards surface even before our nightly tagger has caught up. When a holiday window is empty, we fall back to upcoming family events for Funchal/Madeira instead of an empty screen — with a clear banner explaining the swap. New events are auto-tagged at insert time, and a one-shot backfill endpoint catches up legacy rows.

Cluj-Napoca, Iași, Brașov, Timișoara and other smaller Romanian cities now show their curated event picks on city pages. Quality thresholds adapt to each city's local source mix, so smaller markets aren't penalised for having a different volume than Amsterdam or London.

The Madeira regional page opens with eight curated annual festivals — Festa da Flor, Atlantic Festival, Wine Festival, Carnival, Madeira Film Festival, Funchal NYE, Madeira Nature Festival and Christmas. Below them, a six-tile 'browse by what you love' grid (levadas, beaches & natural pools, viewpoints, museums, theme parks, gardens) plus 30 attractions and 18 events at a time. Sixteen new sub-locality places for Porto Santo, Machico, Santana, Porto Moniz, São Vicente, Câmara de Lobos and Calheta. Region searches are now country-aware so the Madeira feed stays purely Portuguese.

Cleaner category labels (Sports, Music, Theater, Architecture all stay singular), tighter tag lists on event pages, fewer duplicate cards on busy city feeds like London, and the 'More in [city]' section now stays loyal to the city you're browsing.

Queries like 'Ce fac cu copiii in Funchal?' now work in Romanian (every inflection of copii, bebeluși) and in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese (bambini, niños, crianças). Typing 'Madeira' or 'Azores' rolls up to the whole archipelago — events from Câmara de Lobos, Machico and Santana appear when you ask about Madeira. Empty-result messages are localised in your language.

Ask AI now answers more confidently across cities, ages, categories, free/indoor and date phrases — even on the trickiest queries.

The eight 'mood' lists (Date night, Free, Rainy day, Kids 0–3, Kids 4–6, Last minute, Music, Culture) are live in 6 new cities — Barcelona, Lisbon, Berlin, Paris, Madrid, Rome — on top of the original Amsterdam, Bucharest, and Cluj-Napoca. 72 curated discovery surfaces in total.

Suggestion chips now adapt to what you've already explored, so every tap moves you somewhere new instead of repeating itself.

Pages like /this-week/[city] or /weekend/[city] now show a curated 'upcoming in the next 14 days' list with a clear banner whenever there isn't enough activity in the exact window.

Holiday and seasonal guides arrive as instant web pages instead of PDFs — bookmark on your phone, open on any device, no download needed.

Dedicated city pages for four under-served family holidays: Burns Night in Edinburgh/Glasgow (Scotland's poetry & ceilidh night, Jan 25), Fête des Lumières in Lyon (Festival of Lights, Dec 5–8), Fêtes de Genève (Geneva's lakeside summer fireworks, Jul–Aug), and St Martin's Day lantern walks in 14 NL/BE/DE/AT/CH cities (Sint-Maarten / Martinstag, Nov 11). Each page has a countdown badge, kid-focused FAQ, and pulls live events from the database. Holidays auto-appear in the homepage holiday section for users in those countries.