The live globe is easier to find
The live globe puts the whole Skydex network on one 3D Earth: every aircraft our ADS-B receivers hear, every ship our AIS receivers hear, and the stations themselves. It has been live since 10 October, and almost nobody found it. Over two weeks it had 15 visitors. In the same two weeks the home page had 754 and the flat map 264.
The reason was plain. The globe was the fourth plain line in the Network menu, below three links that look more important, and nowhere else. So this update puts it where people already are.
On the home screen. The first card under the take-off buttons is now the globe, with a small picture of the planet. It opens in a new tab, so your flight keeps running.
In the Network menu. The globe moved to the top of the menu and got a thumbnail and one line saying what it is. On a phone, where the Network menu folds into More, it is the first row of that group too.
On the network pages. The ADS-B network, the AIS network and the station leaderboard now show the planet next to their heading. On a phone it sits under the text as a smaller picture with a link.
On the map. Both maps, the one in the game and the public one, have a globe button in the right-hand rail. It opens the globe looking at the place you were looking at on the map, from a height that roughly matches your zoom. From inside the game it opens in a new tab.
In the breadcrumbs. Every receiver-network page now climbs through "Network", and that link goes to the globe. If you trim a link down to skydex.online/network you land on the globe instead of an error page.
The picture is not a stock render. It is drawn from the network's own data, the same dots the globe shows, and it is redrawn every ten minutes, so it changes through the day as Europe wakes up and America goes to sleep. If our receivers go quiet, you still get the Earth, just without dots.
Nothing about the globe itself changed. The 3D engine still loads only when you open the globe, so the pages above carry nothing but a small JPEG of about 20 KB.
If you run a receiver, your station is one of the rings on that planet. The feed page has the line to add one.