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For reference once a location is claimed it can't be edited by anybody except the business. This is part of continual works to reduce spam and keep reports accurate!

Introducing verified stockists 🎉 - businesses can now claim a location, allowing them to manage their location(s) themselves. These locations will show up as verified. Instructions on how to claim are on the site!

@mollyfud They haven't but more than happy to work with them! The more accurate data the better.

@danielteycheney Yep! That endpoint is heavily cached, obviously don’t fetch every second or something like that and shouldn’t affect costs much!

@ExposureSiteBot From what I can tell @ExposureSiteBot, this site is being hosted from an IP address allocated out of a Cloudflare block, so I'm assuming this page is being distributed via a CDN? I'm guessing if we query this page, it's not going to affect your costs? Let me know

Few updates to Find a RAT: - State filters - Map location now saves between reloads - Updates to the report submission for more accurate data, restrictions on address types and names come directly from business listings Also in progress - Verified stockist profiles

@ajd4096 @sheppartonnews @maxstainkamph Verified business profiles are something that is coming - hopefully this will allow for user reports to be turned off.

“We had someone camping out the front from 5.30am and have had people driving from Echuca and Seymour." An electrical contractor in Shepparton was falsely listed on 'Find a RAT', to the dismay of the small family-run business. #SheppNews @maxstainkamph sheppnews.com.au/news/midland-e…

@danielteycheney This URL will give you all of the recent reports - …ng-voice-bdd0.pipelabs-au.workers.dev

@ExposureSiteBot Great work mate. Would be cool if we could query via an API, that way we could write northbound tooling to periodically query the site for "localised" results. Obv have no idea how this site is built (I'm a network person) would love that as a feature

@mel_yuan Alternatively known as the full suburb list of Melbourne

Great to be hearing reports of lots of people finding tests after using the site and generally more availability across particularly Victoria and Sydney today. Remember if you get to a location and stock isn't available to update the report and please be friendly to the staff!

@notagreynomad As of 1am this morning the tests are listed on the biosecurity determination, making it illegal to sell for more than 20% above the supply price. I would recommend anybody that sees excessive prices in person to report to the ACCC.

@siandart @orientalhotel The website yes, that entry no!

@danielclarke83 Yeah the user generated data is both a blessing and a curse - definitely way more great members of the community submitting accurate data than not. Great you hear you had success :)

@ExposureSiteBot Completely understand that with so many people in need of them. A few popped up with incorrect addresses also. Good result, Spencer st Chemist Warehouse has supplies- sorted for now 👍

@markjbhansen @3AW693 @heidimur @3AWNeilMitchell @RossAndRussel @migga @_emilypower I've had a look at this entry and it was reported as no stock within an hour so it is unfortunate that people have continued to stay. There isn't an obvious indicator from what I can see that it was posted by the pharmacy themselves

@3AW693 @heidimur @3AWNeilMitchell @RossAndRussel @migga this chemist has been preying on people. Has been people lining up for hours as says stock when they are only taking numbers never had stock. Post must be added by pharmacy. #FindaRAT @_emilypower

@ThereseFoley7 As with any user reported data there is the occasional false report - you can help combat these by clicking the Wrong / Fake? option on the site!

@ExposureSiteBot Why would a Vietnamese Dental clinic sell COVID tests. There are also URLs being posted that aren't correct or have no stock.

Introducing Find a RAT - Easily find and report on Rapid Antigen Test availability across Australia. Built by yours truely! Jump on and report those RAT stock levels! findarat.com.au 😷🐀 #COVID19VIC

@AKatsonis Just under a million a day roughly!

@suzcon Sorry to hear about the false report! What’s the incorrect and correct spellings and I’ll fix it up!

@ExposureSiteBot I’m a stickler for correct information. My workplace was inundated this evening after a false report was posted showing we had stock. We have none. But I’d really like to adjust the spelling of my workplace.

For those that like stats! 70% of stores across Victoria that were listed with availability of tests on the site were reported as out of stock within 38 minutes! 📊

@tomwoodau We are doing some work on this one!

Any way to get geo-based notifications from #FindaRAT? @ExposureSiteBot

@ineffyble I've had a few requests for this one! The main challenge is doing it in a cost effective manner - unfortunately iOS doesn't support web push notifications, Twilio is a bit out of the question as SMS is expensive but flick me a DM if you wanna chat ideas!

@ExposureSiteBot any plans to add some kind of alerting for new reports near a user? if not, mind if I try and whip something up with Twilio?