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State of Radar 2025 ​

Hey all! Everybody is having their Rewind, so I should probably too.

Let's start with some stats. I had to apply database size increase recently due for it being too big... And when I looked inside, I was amazed.

Stats ​

  • 77k of people have logged in at least once. That's an absolute insane value. At least 28k of them have logged into VATSIM Radar within last month
  • 21k of people have Navigraph Charts subscription, with 326 having Data Only Navigraph subscription
  • More than 11k of favorite lists were created, with 850+ custom favorite lists
  • People have saved 517 bookmarks and 227 filters (I should add some kind of achievement for that lol)
  • More than 1500 custom map settings were saved
  • In last 30 days, Radar outbound traffic was 56 terabytes with 2 billion API requests and 560k visits
  • Top countries: US, Germany and UK
  • Performance is overal good for 81% of visitors, with page fully loading in less than 1-2 seconds
  • Most people open Radar from bookmarks/history/etc. I also see Google... but seriously? Bing? With 11k opens?
  • Most popular browser is Chrome. Surprised to see Edge on second place!
  • Shocking: most people open Radar from Windows

Your Own Stats ​

Use /stats command in our official Discord server to show your stats to everyone!

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This Year in Features ​

This was a huuge year for Radar! We've delivered:

  • v1.0 with VATGlasses, Airports Layouts, Friends, Filters and Bookmarks
  • v1.1 with SIGMETs, bookings and live stats
  • v1.2 with NAVData on map (huuuge: aircraft route, procedures and more), distance tool and weather request
  • A LOT of quality of life features - visit changelog to check version history

Your Support ​

Despite me having benefits for our Patreon members, our monthly budget still covers almost twice of what we need to pay for cloud.

I can't thank you all enough - and I promise, you'll have more to come from me to thank you in coming year!

What's next ​

I'll be working on VATSIM Radar v2.0 next year. I don't have ANY estimate, and this development could take months.

I think VATSIM Radar is in a pretty good state currently performance- and feature-wise, and I'll still publish small releases and hotfixes time to time while we develop 2.0.

Confirmed for 2.0 ​

  • Partial redesign: new fonts, new colors, new design for various elements, more continuous UI look. New... logo?
  • Roadmap visual rework for clarity on what to expect in coming releases
  • Hoppie integration
  • Click/hover interactions rework across all elements on a map
  • Settings 2.0: unified, proper-made and auto-saved settings as a separate page with a much better UI/UX

Considering for 2.0 (or planned for future 2.x releases) ​

  • StatSim integration for past-event tracks
  • User personal page with flights history and much more
  • Context (rmb) menu
  • Desktop application w/ Discord Presence
  • Patreon membership upgrades with exclusive features, such as faster updates, satellite layer, map layer with a better performance, and more
    • It's worth noting here, that "exclusive" features are also those we have to pay for

2.0 testing ​

This (huge) release will be tested in 3 phases:

  • New selected Early Adopters testers joining - follow news in our Discord
  • All who applied for Early Adopters access
  • Open Beta

Stay tuned! Thank you for being a part of this project.