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BOOM? Just Got a Memory

May 27, 2026 ยท 1 min read

Big update to BOOM? today. The map used to only show the last 24 hours. Now it goes back seven days, thirty days, or the whole year, with a new histogram strip under the filter buttons. Each bar covers an hour, a day, or a week. Click any bar and the map flies to those reports.

The BOOM? Live Map zoomed to the St. Louis Metro East, with a new histogram strip across the top showing the past thirty days of reports. A popup over an Edwardsville pin reads "Possible firework or firecracker, sounded like that."

On phones the strip turns into a picker wheel. Swipe through time, the bar in the middle stays sharp, the others blur out around it. Like a lens passing over the timeline.

A few smaller things came along for the ride. The home page is now a live radar: booms slide in, the count ticks up, the pin lands on the mini-map without a refresh. The pulsing "you are here" dot follows you to every boom detail page now. And popups on the live map lead with the city.

The map remembers now. Free, anonymous, Metro East. Use it or install the PWA at whattheboom.com.

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