What's new on gonna.surf

Release date: 2025-04-21

Release date: 2025-04-13

Bug fixes

• Correct a bug where wave height was occasionaly wrong in the plain English description of the surf forecast.

Release date: 2025-03-31

Features

• We're starting to translate gonna.surf to Spanish. Three of our core articles are translated so far:
  • Guía de surf en Fuerteventura - Surfea en la tierra de los arrecifes
  • Guía de surf en Lanzarote y La Graciosa
  • Surfeando en el último paraíso salvaje de Europa: La Graciosa.
• Make essential guides pages load faster.

Release date: 2025-03-26

Release date: 2025-03-18

We're making it easier for visitors to access the pages they need with fewer clicks.

Features

• Display a forecast preview for a selection of featured spots directly on the home page.
• Make the 'Surf forecast' button more prominent.

Release date: 2025-03-09

Features

• Mention the data source used for displayed forecast.

Bug fixes

• Performance optimizations.

Release date: 2025-03-05

Features

• Open the app directly in last used island for users of the mobile app who installed it before v9.0.0 release.

Bug fixes

• Correct a typo in the release notes.
• Add missing thumbnail image for the Lanzarote destination guide.

Release date: 2025-03-01

Fuerteventura’s waves are legendary, but Lanzarote has its own treasures - Discover them now in Gonna.surf.

Release date: 2025-02-17

Features

• Add a Press kit page with information about the project, list of press releases and brand assets.
• Update 'About us' and 'Gonna.surf for sponsors' pages to reflect the changes brought to the app in the past months.
• Some layout optimizations here and there.

Release date: 2025-02-07

Features

• Add banners and logo of our newest sponsor, Willing to Surf.
• Improved forecast display: now shows every two hours by default instead of three. The hourly view remains available.

Release date: 2024-12-17

Release date: 2024-11-30

A minor release to enhance the usability of gonna.surf.

Features

• Update the description of some spots which are exposed to limited swell directions.
• Small tweaks to the forecast page layout.

Release date: 2024-11-26

Release date: 2024-11-20

Release date: 2024-11-01

Features

• Add logo and banners for our new sponsor CBCM School.

Bug fixes

• tweak layout of forecast overview after daylight saving time switch: one less hour is displayed, and content alignment had to be adjusted.

Release date: 2024-10-22

Release date: 2024-10-09

A small release to do some housekeeping.

Features

• Switch to Buy me a coffee operator to process supporter donations as stripe.com does not support this type of payments anymore.
• Small technical updates under the hood.

Bug fixes

• Ensure that all URLs from the previous version of the site now redirect to their new location.

Release date: 2024-10-04

This might be the largest release of gonna.surf so far, ready right in time for the beginning of the surf season. Two highlights: forecast is now available for the South of the island, and the recommendation system is now much more accurate and reliable. Here's a list of the main changes below, and we go more in detail in a separate article introducing the new features.

Release date: 2024-08-02

Features

• Add content to the Gonna.surf for sponsors page.

Bug fixes

• Correct the value of some angles to determine the wind direction labels (onshore etc).

Release date: 2024-06-09

Features

• Add a 'skip to main content' hyperlink visible to visitors using keyboard navigation, as per Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 recommendations.
• Add 'Waves' and 'Wind' text labels on top of the conditions visuals in the forecast overview panel.

Bug fixes

• Correct a syntax mistake in the automated text describing the wind.

Release date: 2024-06-03

Features

• Our partner photographer Margarita is out of the island at the moment, so we disabled the photoshoot booking with her.
• Optimize the way how images are loaded for better performance in the home page and in the essential guides pages.

Release date: 2024-05-26

Features

• Disable animations for users having set the "Prefer reduced motion" option.
• Update layout of the 'Surf better' Knowledge Base articles to enhance readability.

Release date: 2024-05-18

Release date: 2024-05-15

Features

• Change the headings' layout for a clearer visual hierarchy.
• Update articles' cover images for more consistency.
• Optimize spacing in detailed forecast pages for a better content density on mobile devices.

Release date: 2024-05-09

Release date: 2024-05-07

Release date: 2024-03-21

Release date: 2024-03-05

Features

• Sea Inside Studio is now sponsoring gonna.surf and featured in some pages.

Release date: 2024-02-19

Features

• Update the content of a sponsor's banner in order to promote an event they are organizing.

Release date: 2024-02-19

Bug fixes

• Make sure that the website keeps running and shows a status message whenever our data provider fails to publish forecast for more than 72 hours.

Release date: 2024-02-07

Features

• Add banners promoting our first sponsors, Brothers Tahiti and Marco Giglio.

Bug fixes

• Remove the link to Entubadera webcam in the webcams directory, as it seems that this webcam has been permanently disabled.

Release date: 2024-01-09

Features

• Add some markup for search engines to better understand our content.
• Label interactive portions of the pages for better screen reader support.
• Update underlying technologies to benefit from latest performance improvements and bug fixes.

Release date: 2024-01-05

Features

• Add a button inviting to donate to support gonna.surf in the top navigation bar.

Release date: 2024-01-02

Release date: 2023-12-23

Features

• When changing locations in the detailed forecast page, selected day is kept, instead of being reset to 'today'.
• Smoother transition when navigating between pages.
• Update content of Gonna.surf for sponsors page.
• Add a footer section to the pages.
• Minor content updates.

Release date: 2023-12-02

Release date: 2023-11-05

Features

• Update some links to surf webcams, as the pages have been moving around on host websites.

Release date: 2023-11-02

Features

• Tap over the arrows to show the wind and swell direction values.
• Add a banner inviting potential partners to sponsor gonna.surf.

Bug fixes

• Whenever gonna.surf was visited between midnight and 1am, forecast for following day was shown in the home page, instead forecast for today. This is now fixed.

Release date: 2023-10-12

Release date: 2023-09-23

Release date: 2023-09-15

Release date: 2023-08-06

Features

• Prevent 'show details' and 'show all hours' options from wrapping over two lines in smaller screens.

Bug fixes

• Hide the tide level tooltip on mobile devices, whenever the user taps outside of the tide chart.

Release date: 2023-07-17

We introduce a simplified forecast display more suitable for beginners

Features

• Show less details by default, and add a toggle button to show total swell and wind swell data.
• Show the swell height measure more prominently by default, with an option to switch back to swell power.
• Slightly increase font sizes for surf forecast measures and units.

Bug fixes

• Ensure that the `flat` badge is not displayed if there is some wind swell.

Release date: 2023-06-07

Features

• Update some rules for the forecast recommendations.
• Create a recommendations demonstration page to show which recommendation is made by gonna.surf on varying weather conditions.

Bug fixes

• Correct a bug where day navigation was inactive in the early hours of the morning.

Release date: 2023-06-04

Bug fixes

• Prevent some errors from occuring, whenever older forecast is removed after a change of day.

Release date: 2023-06-01

Release date: 2023-05-17

Release date: 2023-05-16

Features

• Add a transition guide for magicseaweed users switching to gonna.surf.
• Small tweaks of the colors for a more consistent visual identity and better readability.

Bug fixes

• Ensure that the moon phase details are shown on tap after change of day, in the detailed and summary surf forecast tables.

Release date: 2023-05-08

Features

• Add user-friendly error pages. Whenever a visitor lands in a "page not found" URL, a possibly matching page is suggested if detected.

Bug fixes

• Set correct page title and description for the detailed surf forecast pages (regression introduced in v4.7.0).

Release date: 2023-04-15

Bug fixes

• Ensure that the tide tooltips are activated in detailed forecast table when the user changes the day.
• Correct thumbnail image URL metadata, which was wrong in nested pages.
• Define page metadata for the help page about colorblind mode.

Release date: 2023-04-12

Features

• Add a page documenting How to activate the colorblind-friendly mode.
• Update the visitors statistics inside 'Gonna.surf for sponsors' page.
• Add a user testimonial in the about page.

Release date: 2023-04-10

Release date: 2023-03-21

Features

• Update the forecast conditions display inside home, interactive map and quick forecast pages, in order to have the same presentation as in the detailed surf forecast page.
• Update the preview screenshots in app install menu.
• Change technology used to create the website No visible change, but this allows us to stay fast to add and improve features.

Release date: 2023-03-13

Release date: 2023-03-08

Bug fixes

• Fix a bug appearing occasionally where the forecast data would not be processed correctly.
• Correct a small typo in the article 'How tu surf in crowded spots'.

Release date: 2023-02-27

We make it easier to install the gonna.surf mobile app

Release date: 2023-02-15

Features

• Add video from the Raglan surf report to the safety fundamentals article.

Bug fixes

• Fix one more layout bug happening only in Safari browser (🤦), breaking the layout of detailed forecast pages.
• Correct wind direction label rules: 325° should be "onshore", not "N/A".

Release date: 2023-02-08

Bug fixes

• Correct a typo in North detailed surf forecast page: Derecha spot is also called German's right, not German's left.

Release date: 2023-01-23

Features

• We figured that Barefoot Surf publishes surf education content of great quality, so instead of writing our own knowledge base article about the surf etiquette, we direct our readers to theirs. This is done through an affiliate link, meaning that we get a commission in case the readers decide to make a purchase through the links, at no cost to them. The linked articles are totally free.

Release date: 2023-01-17

Release date: 2022-12-25

Correct a bug causing selected forecast not to be properly highlighted in the home page's daily forecast table

Release date: 2022-12-21

Properly handle an edge case where data provider sends obsolete forecast data for past dates

Release date: 2022-12-09

Where we introduce some tiny tweaks to enhance the accuracy and experience of gonna.surf

Features

• Determine the wind direction label (onshore, offshore...) according to the coast's orientation rather than the swell direction.
• Fine-tune the colors of the visuals in detaield surf forecast to make them stand-out more.

Release date: 2022-11-22

As surf is becoming increasingly popular globally, and the spots tend to get more and more crowded, having a good understanding about how to behave in the water, and respecting the surf etiquette is crucial. Many surfers are not much aware about these, causing tension in the line-up, and sometimes accidents. Surf can and should be fun and safe for all, this is why we find it important to share knowledge and promote safe behaviour in the water.

Release date: 2022-11-16

Bug fixes

• Prevent surf report from failing to load forecast data (adapt to new data since v3.0 release).
• Fix a bug causing 5am timeslot to be included during winter hours.

Release date: 2022-11-12

Bug fixes

• Display correct labels for the wind and swell directions: while the arrows point at where the flow is going to, the label should describe where it comes from.

Release date: 2022-11-11

Bug fixes

• Fix a layout bug causing text to be sized incorrectly when navigating between certain pages.

Release date: 2022-11-11

Having summarized and visual indicators for the surf conditions is great, because it saves time and energy in analyzing all the parameters. Sometimes though, it is valuable to be able to check all the details. Are there some other swells besides the primary? How big are the wind waves? This is why we're adding detailed forecast pages.

Release date: 2022-10-25

Release date: 2022-10-24

Bug fixes

• Filter out obsolete data whenever the forecast received from the provider contains data for dates earlier than today.

Release date: 2022-10-17

Release date: 2022-10-15

Bug fixes

• Prevent an error occurring on day change, preventing the home page from loading.

Release date: 2022-10-13

Our surf forecast is cool already, but not enough. We give it some enhancements in this release, and we're preparing more important changes to be released in a near future.

Release date: 2022-10-04

Bug fixes

• The daily forecast table is replaced by a notification message instead of being empty, whenever our data provider is not available.
• Under the hood change: host privacy friendly Plausible Analytics under gonna.surf subdomain.

Release date: 2022-09-27

Features

• Publish La Caleta Essentials surf spot guide.
• Display current surf conditions in the last slide of the spot guides.
• Small layout enhancements for better readability.

Bug fixes

• Solve some layout issues in the forecast documentation page.

Release date: 2022-09-26

Features

• Show the swell period measure directly in the forecast details panel, instead of having it only available in a tooltip.

Bug fixes

• Solve issue where the swell period was not updated when changing forecast hour or location.
• Hide duplicate content in surf report generation tool.

Release date: 2022-09-20

Features

• Use either all available width or height in the spot guide, and show a plain background color instead of an image.
• Display the spot guides above the alternative forecast options in the home page, when navigating from small screens.

Release date: 2022-09-16

We've been busy this summer. The initial plan was to publish a bunch of visual spot guides, and features to let visitors book a surf class. directly from the website. After a quick check, it turned out that the surf camps and surf instructors don't really need yet another booking platform. So we're focusing on publishing educational content. Oh, and we've also made some 'under-the-hood' changes which help us provide a better user experience.

Release date: 2022-08-30

Release date: 2022-08-20

Features

• Display the power of waves rather than the swell period. Swell period can still be seen by tapping on the swell power.
• Make 'how to read a surf forecast' page faster to load.

Bug fixes

• Small layout tweaks in the home page.

Release date: 2022-08-03

In preparation of v2 release next fall, a set of pages for partners is added to the site.

Features

• Add pages inviting surf camps and surf instructors to partner with gonna.surf.
• Add sponsorship policy page.
• Misc. visual enhancements.

Release date: 2022-06-24

Features

• Replace forecast overview in home page by images, to clarify that these are clickable links leading to surf forecast page.
• Merge the daily and hourly forecast cards in the home page.
• Enhance layout of 'how to read a surf forecast': make sure that the images don't get too large when displayed on wide screens.
• Misc. other small UI and copywriting enhancements.
• Smooth-scroll when clicking on in6page navigation links.

Bug fixes

• Text in buttons should not be underlined.

Release date: 2022-06-07

There's more to the tides than 'low', 'mid', 'high'. In this release, moon phases and tide amplitudes are introduced visually in order to better depict how the tide is actually likely to be.

Release date: 2022-05-26

Features

• In the home page, enhance display of daily forecast excerpt and navigation towards the full table.

Bug fixes

• Ensure that 'today' and 'tomorrow' labels are placed in the relevant column above the daily surf forecast table.

Release date: 2022-05-25

Release date: 2022-05-10

Features

• Update the surf recommendation rules so that low power swell gives a 'Fair' rather than 'Good' recommendation.
• Daily forecast UI enhancements.

Bug fixes

• Ensure that content has a suitable size in Safari browser.

Release date: 2022-05-07

Gonna.surf can now be used to plan your surf day even more easily, thanks to a new compact visual.

Features

• Add a new daily forecast page with a summarized view of the conditions today and tomorrow in all the locations.
• Create a new home page leading to the different features.
• Fine-tune the colored-coded surf conditions recommendations.
• Enhance page load performance.
• Tweak layout in multiple pages.

Bug fixes

• Display the tide in Canary Island time zone rather than GMT.
• Ensure that the whole map is clickable for panning and zooming.
• Update the colored recommendation indicator in the map when user navigates through forecast hours.

Release date: 2022-05-07

Features

• Display an information to the visitors whenever the forecast data is not available.

Bug fixes

• Prevent the application from crashing whenever the weather forecast service is not responding.

Release date: 2022-05-02

Features

• A new page links to known webcams filming the surf spots in the North of the island.
• The forecast cards are ordered according to locations in the hourly forecast page, on larger screens (i.e. West is on the left, North West right above it etc).
• Small updates to the website style.

Release date: 2022-04-21

We add a new page detailing the meaning of all the surf forecast card components.

Release date: 2022-04-13

This release groups a set of small usability updates. Also, some information has been added to let search engines better understand what the site is about.

Features

• Tweak minimap colors so that the forecast location markers stand out.
• Simplify the bar charts display: no background and borders for swell height and wind speed bars, and round the bars' corners.
• Make the neutral location recommendation (black border) consistent with the red / amber / green recommendations, in terms of indicator thickness.
• Prevent the content from stretching too much on wide displays.
• Add metadata for search engines.

Bug fixes

• Ensure that bar charts get updated when hour changes.

Release date: 2022-04-09

Bug fixes

• Ensure that the current hour is selected by default, rather than previous hour (bug appeared with daylight saving time).
• Fix spot name shown super small in the surf reports (regression introduced in v0.34.0).

Release date: 2022-04-06

Features

• Add explanations about what the surf report creation tool, and highlight the importance of sharing responsibly.
• Optimize some images for faster page load.

Release date: 2022-04-05

Small set of changes to enhance the experience while creating surf reports.

Release date: 2022-04-04

Features

• Add links from home page to maps and surf report pages.
• On mobile devices, collapse the top navigation menu when visitors move to another page.
• Add an explicit link to the hourly forecast (home page) in the top navigation menu.
• Animate forecast hour laterally rather than vertically, to match with the arrow buttons directions.
• SEO: update the 'meta' title and description fields, as well as thumbnail images.

Bug fixes

• Surf report: fix a bug happening on some mobile devices, where the surf forecast hour from uploaded photo is incorrect.
• Surf report: ensure that the download report button gets enabled on mobile devices.

Release date: 2022-04-02

Bug fixes

• Fix a bug causing the forecas text to be very small over portrait mode surf report images.

Release date: 2022-03-30

Bug fixes

• Solve an issue causing thelayout to be broken in news and about pages.

Release date: 2022-03-29

The surf forecast now gets interpreted in order to provide visitors with a visual recommendation. Stay safe, always make sure by yourself that the conditions are OK before going to the water.

Release date: 2022-03-27

This release enhances the previously created compact forecast page in order to display some missing info, while keeping a minimalist layout. A set of small bugs are also fixed at the same occasion.

Release date: 2022-03-25

The map with all its interactive features takes quite some space, and displaying all of these on smaller screens is a challenge.

To enhance the experience on mobile (77% of the visitors use gonna.surf from their smartphones), a compact version of the forecast is shown instead by default. The map is still here, but in a separate page.

Release date: 2022-03-24

We made sure that surf reports look great regardless the size and orientation of the uploaded surf pics.

Release date: 2022-03-22

Gonna.surf users can now create and share a surf report in few seconds. We tried our best to make it as easy as possible to use.

1. Take a picture of the spot.
2. Pick the spot name.
3. Tell how the conditions are (wave quality, crowd).
4. Share the surf report.

Try it now at gonna.surf/surf-report!

Release date: 2022-03-21

Publish the present page, to inform visitors about the evolutions of gonna.surf.

Release date: 2022-03-13

Features

• Show a tooltip on mobile devices for power badge (in order to display the power measure).
• Update about page meta description for search engines.

Release date: 2022-03-12

Release date: 2022-03-08

Add a page describing the project

Release date: 2022-02-25 to 2022-03-07

Sets of changes and bug fixes mainly related to layout.

Release date: 2022-02-24

Show the tide prediction (bar chart and height in meters)

Release date: 2022-02-23

Display the name of forecast station next to the markers, instead of inside the forecast cards

Release date: 2022-02-23

Whenever multiple surf spots are close to each other, they get clustered, to avoid overlapping icons.

Features

• Cluster surf spot markers dynamically depending on zoom level.
• Add 'La Derecha de los Alemanes' (aka 'German's right') to the spots.
• Update website thumbnail image.
• Update website favicon.

Release date: 2022-02-22

Layout tweaks mainly aimed at display on mobile devices

Release date: 2022-02-21

Release date: 2022-02-20

Use mapLibre instead of Leaflet to power the interactive maps. This fixes an issue on mobile devices where taps were not always working.

Release date: 2022-02-09

Features

• In addition to the surf forecast points, the main surf sports of Fuerteventura North shore are now shown on the map: Punta Blanca, Majanicho, El Cotillo (Piedra playa), El Hierro, Punta Elena, Flag Beach, El Burro, Playa del Moro).
• Round measurements to either zero or one decimal based on selected unit.

Release date: 2022-02-08

Release date: 2022-02-06

Bug fixes

• Safari now displays the correct forecast hour instead of an obscure error message.

Release date: 2022-02-04

Gonna.surf v0.11.0 lets user choose the measurement units they perfer.

Release date: 2022-02-02

Enhance the experience on small screens.

Release date: 2022-02-01

Bug fixes

• Ensure that Canary Islands time zone is always used.
• Fix time formatting, which was not always the same depending on the web browser used.

Release date: 2022-02-01

Users can now navigate and explore the hourly forecast in the next 24 hours.

Bug fixes

• Fix an issue where server uses incorrect time zone to filter forecast hours.

Release date: 2022-01-25

As of this versions, an interactive map is presented to the visitors

Release date: 2022-01-14

Features

• Add copyright attribution notices.

Release date: 2022-01-10

Bug fixes

• Fix mobile layout .
• Correct arrows orientation for sell and wind directions.

Release date: 2022-01-10

First steps are making the forecast more visual, and also shown in a more compact manner.

Release date: 2022-01-06

Here we go! This is the first version of the website displaying surf forecast information, with data extracted from the Spanish Meteorology Agency (AEMET).

Release date: 2021-12-18

In this release, we make the website more visual by displaying a map of Fuerteventura North.

Release date: 2021-10-19

Refine home page content, add mockups of the solution.

Release date: 2021-10-06

Complete some basic setup for the website

Features

• Integrate privacy-friendly analytics solution 'Plausible analytics', in order to measure the visits.
• Add a favicon.

Release date: 2021-10-05

First release of the website, containing only a brief description and a 'coming soon' message.