Toopdbq: Local Meetups

Your neighborhood has more to show you. Explore the new map on Home, tap a photo pin, and get a feel for a place through the people posting there.

Get to know the people and places around you. Toopdbq is a local social app, now with posts on the map. Explore your neighborhood and join in with a daily quest.

■ See what’s around the corner Home brings a map and local posts together, with photo pins for the places people have linked. Each circle covers an area on the map, from a park or campus to a festival site. You can browse from outside a circle, but you need to be inside it to post photos and videos captured there.

■ Get a feel for a place Tap a photo pin or place card to see business details alongside posts linked to that place, even when they come from different people or circles. A Google Maps link brings those posts together, giving you different glimpses of the same spot. From Google Maps, share a place to Toopdbq to capture a new post with its link, or add the link to one of your existing posts.

■ Start with something in common Every circle has a daily quest, such as sharing a wink or a good drink found down a side street. Capture your answer inside the circle and post it to reveal everyone else’s answers to that same quest, which stay blurred until you contribute. The quest board brings the answers together, and you can still take part in past quests.

■ Feel closer to the moment Open a photo or video full screen and swipe vertically to move from one post to the next, with sound for videos. Leave a like or a comment when something catches your eye.

■ Keep a record of local life Posts stay beyond 24 hours, building a record of each circle and place. Your precise location isn’t shown to other users; places you choose to link are shared with your posts. Location permission is requested when you tap Check in to post.

Take a look at a place you’ve been curious about, or add your own take to today’s quest. There’s more than one way to be part of the neighborhood on Toopdbq.