@Eric Just a sweep/lead perspective clarification: it’s important to also see messages from all over, especially those off the back. If we can at least get back to where we were before the Jan update, that would be great (you never saw everybody back then either, afaik, but it was a lot more).
If the changes made are such that that’s gonna be hard (which I’m a bit worried about if network code changes caused this), maybe a stop-gap would be to raise the limits and maybe add a cutoff for really large events (300+) to prevent things getting too spammy.
(Design-wise I’d prefer to approach this with a togglable radius, allowing individual riders to select whether they want to receive messages from e.g. just nearby, within a minute or two each way, or the whole event.)
Thanks for giving some detail on the situation!