Changelog

Tell the page how often you swim and it works out the cheapest mix of single entries, 10-swim cards, 30-swim cards and the year pass, for adults, people 67 and over, and ages 10–17, from Árborg's own 2026 price list. It also says whether the pool is open right now, until when and when it reopens, including the public-holiday hours. The price list doesn't say how long a card stays valid, so the page says that too instead of guessing.

What each forecourt in Selfoss is charging right now, read from Gasvaktin, with what a fuel card actually saves and what the Reykjavík run costs over a year at today's cheapest price. It also compares the cheapest pump here with the cheapest one you pass coming into the capital — computed each time, not assumed.

Where the replacement for the overloaded 1945 bridge stands: construction progress, the expected autumn 2028 opening, and what the toll will cost once it takes over from the free (but jammed) current crossing.

The Icelandic Met Office moved its earthquake catalogue to a new service, and the old one it left behind has been publishing only automatic, unreviewed detections since February. This page was reading the old one. Checked against the same 30 days around Selfoss, the old service returned 187 earthquakes and not one of them carried a magnitude a seismologist had checked. It now reads the current catalogue, so the magnitudes on this page are the reviewed ones where the Met Office has reviewed them.

Selfoss now has the Icelandic Met Office's active warnings for South Iceland, in the Met Office's own words, with the wind at the town beside them. It is worth reading next to the road page. A wind or snow warning is usually why Hellisheiði shuts, and the warning normally comes before the closure — so the order to check things in is warning first, road second. The page is careful about one thing in particular: Suðurland runs from Þingvellir to the sand plains east of Hvolsvöllur, and most of it is far more exposed than Selfoss, which sits low and inland on the Ölfusá. A yellow wind warning can be a serious day on the pass and an unremarkable one on Austurvegur. The Met Office's own text usually says where in the region the worst of it will be, and that sentence is the one worth reading. This is not an alert service and cannot wake anyone up; the page links Veðurstofan, Umferðin, SafeTravel and the municipality for that, and 112 for a genuine emergency.

The complaint people in Selfoss have been making for years is that there is no timetable at the stop. There is now a page for it — and it is more than a timetable. Strætó publishes its whole network as an open feed, and it also runs the live service that drives the electronic signs at the big stops in Reykjavík. Both are free to read, and neither had been used here before. The new page reads both: the printed timetable for all four Selfoss stops — Ráðhúsið in each direction, the N1 on Austurvegur, and FSU — with Strætó's own live estimate on top when a bus is actually being tracked. Which times are live and which are the timetable is marked on every row, because the difference matters. On the long rural routes the tracking sometimes stops updating mid-journey and leaves a bus reading '0 minutes' for an hour; when that happens the page drops the estimate and falls back to the printed time rather than show you a number that has stopped meaning anything. On holiday weekends — Verslunarmannahelgi is one — Strætó's live system and its published timetable label the same bus differently, and the whole board falls back to the timetable for a few days. The times are still right. One thing the page cannot cover: the free town bus inside Árborg. Árborgarstrætó publishes no feed, so its timetable stays on arborg.is, which the page links. Data from Strætó bs.

A colored-pencil drawing of the 1945 suspension bridge over the Ölfusá — the crossing that turned a ferry point into a town — with the riverside town centre on the far bank and the ridge of Ingólfsfjall beyond.

Selfoss now has live pages for the town. Recent Earthquakes reads the Icelandic Met Office's catalogue for the South Iceland Seismic Zone; Is the Road Open? tracks Hellisheiði, the Ölfusá bridge and Þrengsli from Vegagerðin; Which Bin Does It Go In? covers Árborg's four-bin system; and Who to Call gathers the numbers residents actually need. More are planned.