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Furbol — How It Works

I want to change my home city

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I want to change my home city

You picked a city during signup, but now you’ve moved — or you picked the wrong one, or you’re spending a few months somewhere else and want the app to behave like that’s home now. You’re looking for where to change it.

Short version: open Edit account from the side menu, tap the Location card, pick a new city in the picker. It saves immediately. Everything that keys off your location — game feed radius, nearby-game notifications, the invite-tab proximity rings — updates from the next read.

Where the control lives

Side menu → Edit account → the Location card (second card from the top of the editor, just below Language).

Tapping it opens a full-screen picker with three ways to choose:

  • A search field at the top. Type a city — or an address, a landmark, a neighbourhood — and the picker shows a live autocomplete list of matches, the way Google Maps search or a ride-hailing destination search works. Tap a match and Furbol resolves it to the surrounding city (so a street address comes out as “the city that address is in”).
  • A scrollable list of Furbol cities underneath, each with a little counter badge showing how many games are active there right now. The list is sorted by game count, so the liveliest Furbol cities come first — handy if you just want to pick somewhere with action rather than a specific place you have in mind.
  • A “use my current location” button that reads your phone’s GPS once and sets the city to whatever’s nearest.

Pick one of the three and you’re back on the account editor with the new city showing. There’s no “Save” button — the change is live as soon as you pick. You can close the editor right after.

What changes as a result

All the location-aware parts of Furbol re-centre on the new city. You don’t have to refresh or log out:

  • Your game feed. Games are ranked by distance from your city’s coordinates. Games that used to be “far” might now be in-range, and vice versa. Pull to refresh if you want to see the new list immediately.
  • Nearby-game notifications. The push you get when a new game opens in your area keys off your location. Games in the new city now qualify; games in the old city stop reaching you.
  • The invite tab’s proximity rings. When you invite players, the “nearby” tabs (rings at ~1km, 3km, 5km) fill with people near the new coordinates.

What doesn’t change

A few things you might expect to shift, but which don’t:

  • Active bookings stay. Games you’ve already booked aren’t cancelled or un-booked just because you changed city. The booking is tied to the game, not to your location.
  • Invites you’ve already sent or received stay. Pending invites don’t get cleaned up to match the new geography.
  • Phone contacts. The “players you know from your contacts” matching is based on phone numbers, not location. Changing city has no effect on it.
  • Your profile history, stats, wallet, connections. None of this is tied to your city — all of it rides along unchanged.
  • Your currency. City and currency are separate controls on the account editor, even though both live on the Language & Currency page. Changing city does not automatically change your currency. If you moved to a country with a different currency and want to swap, do that separately.

How often you can do this

As often as you want. There’s no cooldown, no per-day limit, no confirmation required. The intended use is “I moved” or “I’m travelling for a month” — but the mechanism doesn’t enforce any particular cadence.

Edge cases

  • The picker can’t find your city in search. Furbol’s place lookup leans on an external map service — a very small village or a non-standard spelling may not come back. Try the “use my current location” button if you’re actually there, or pick the nearest larger city from the list.
  • You change city and your feed looks empty. That’s normal if there aren’t many games in your new area yet. Pull-to-refresh doesn’t create games that don’t exist. Widen the distance filter (if the current UI exposes one) or check again later.
  • You change city while you have games booked in the old city. Those bookings stay. You’re on the hook to unbook them if you can’t make it, same as any other unbook — see Leaving a Game.

Changing during signup vs. changing later

The signup flow uses the same picker as the account editor — so if you’re doing this in the first week after signup and you picked the wrong city on day one, you’re using the same control on the same data. There’s no “initial city” that’s special or harder to change.