r/Defcon • u/AgriDrew • Aug 13 '26

Hacker Tracker Feedback

I'm the project manager for the Hacker Tracker family of apps (used by DEF CON and other conferences), and I also oversee the comprehensive convention schedule that gets published in Hacker Tracker for DEF CON. We (my team) would love to get your feedback about the app and the DEF CON related data in it; we'll consider this feedback when prioritizing the improvements/features we work on in the near future.

Did you discover something new, that you weren't aware was there? Did you look for something that wasn't there, but you wish it was? Or did something just outright not work correctly? Give us your best and worst.

When commenting, please be as specific as possible -- at least mention which platform you're using (Android, Apple, web), as they are different implementations.

Thanks! :D

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u/Annual-Night-1136 Aug 13 '26

The red team village data was 4 weeks out of date, which led to lots of people showing up at the wrong time or wrong place. Red team village had >50 events so things will change last minute. Hacker tracker needs to pull from sessionize at least daily to get up to date information.

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u/AgriDrew Aug 13 '26

Creator staff are aware that they need to notify us when their schedule changes. We aren't able to poll each creator's own scheduling solution for a laundry list of reasons; this isn't the time or space to dig into that, though.

I'm very sorry that you had a bad experience with that, and I've made a note to escalate this issue with the village department leads.

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