I’m pretty sure this is A/B testing on their part, but curious to see if anyone else is in that case

  • verysoft@kbin.social
    171·
    10 months ago

    Eh? It’s been a globe for years and years. You can even zoom out and view other planets and moons.

    • Camus@jlai.luOPEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Probably country dependant, I have been stuck with Mercator for the last few years.

      • rbesfe@lemmy.ca
        4·
        10 months ago

        Also depends on the platform, the mobile app is the last bastion of flat-earth truth /s

  • mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    10 months ago

    I’ve definitely seen this before (if you zoom out beyond the level where a projection makes sense, it switches to a globe). I was actually a little surprised when I tried it just now, and it stayed on the projection at any zoom level; I thought the globe was the only behavior until I read this and checked it.

    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
      1·
      10 months ago

      Yeah, I think it does this on desktop but not on mobile. I remember it already doing this like 10 years ago

  • ninpnin@sopuli.xyz
    4·
    10 months ago

    For me, it’s gone back and forth between a globe and a projection a few times over the past 5-10 years or so.

  • Sibbo@sopuli.xyz
    4·
    10 months ago

    It was a globe forever on desktop. Changes to a projection when you zoom in enough.

    They surely have a fallback in case someone’s PC did not support rendering the globe fast enough

  • aivoton@sopuli.xyz
    3·
    10 months ago

    I’ve seen it before, but never thought to seek out the projection, but I could set the maps to “Globe View” under the layers button in the down left corner. It’s much nicer now :)

  • nxfsi@lemmy.world
    15·
    10 months ago

    Mercator projection is best, with gnomonic and equirectangular coming in at distant second and third. Globe perspective projection has niche uses. All others are useless/solve a problem that is irrelevant.