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Follow up on the latest improvements and updates.

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App moves to 3.15

You asked, we listened. We've added the ability to search on your bar so you can easily find ingredients to add or remove. This request came from our change log, right here. Use the change log to request features you'd like to see in our app and web based platforms.
Along with this update we also found time to:
  • Add a badge to the cocktail if you can make it or not
  • Changed the MyBar ingredient icons to have a larger touch point, and just look a little nicer
A small but mighty update to our beautiful app.
We've just finished and launched 3.14 of our app. A couple of small display glitches with Ask Cocktail Colin / Chris, and some wording alterations for iOS users in the billing section, to better clarify the pricing and free trials.
We also took the opportunity to change our app icon to have a little Christmas hat on - it's the little things in life!
We've worked on a host of internal tools here to help us better gather information on various campaigns and the like, to give us better optics into the various stats we use. Along with this (boring for you) update, another (boring for you) update that we moved our server worker configuration over to a newer more streamlined application. Nothing new front end, but this will allow us to move quicker in other areas - which means some new features coming to the app and website soon!
We were having a few issues with our menu creator, and it not allowing PDF downloads. Once we fixed that we then noticed that bespoke fonts and images weren't loading properly. Sorry about all this, but its now fixed and working!!
We've changed our account dashboard slightly (on the web) to remove recent comments and let the rest of the data breathe nicely.
We've also fixed a small bug in gift card purchasing and creator cocktail results, as well as laid the ground work for the Add a Recipe feature we're working on! Keep you eyes peeled!
We've tied in a 40% December sale to our website, to ensure our app and website are both working from the same prices. Along with this we've fixed a few payment schedule bugs and taken the opportunity to refactor some of our holiday special and payment code, as it was getting a little messy.
But not just sale sale sale work, we've also tried to tidy up the upsell notice on cocktail pages by hiding it once you scroll down, and then we reworked our sale modal that appears for new users, just tidying it up and making it look a heap nicer!
It was all about pricing, upsells, cleanliness and refactoring today! Hopefully bringing our beautiful website and app to more users!
After literally releasing 3.12 yesterday, we wanted to get some holiday offers into the app for you, but were struggling to implement all the changes in our tight turn-around time, and 3.12 was such a big shift, we'd thought we'd split this update into two versions. We thought the holiday sale was going to hold us back for longer but we made a breakthrough today and managed to get it all working and synced!
With that in mind, we managed to compile and get 3.13 out onto the app stores. This one has the usual UI tweaks and some tiny stability fixes, but more importantly it deals with all the offerings we can throw at the the stores.
And that means .... theres a 40% off deal happening right now on the app (v3.13 - hopefully Play Store in the next few hours, App Store in a day or so). We've really tried to make this as smooth and easy for you as possible, and hope it matches all your expectations.
We've got 2 more big features to get into the app this side of Christmas, so watch this space as we keep on pushing our app to cocktail greatness. Phew! What a day!
As our busiest time of the year draws upon us, we wanted to really dive into the performance of our site and see if could improve it at all. We've done most meaningful on-site tweaks over the past year or so as we continually strive for performance perfection, but we've spent the first part of today working at the network level.
With that in mind, we've done a few things. Firstly we did actually change on on-site aspect - we modified the way some dynamic data is loaded onto cocktail pages (comments mostly) so they only load when coming into view. This helps for comment heavy pages quite a bit.
But then we moved to a network level and dived into all our Cloudflare logs and data, and tried to figure out exactly what was going on with our cache, routing and more. With that in mind we found some massive performance improvements from smarter routing to smarter image compression. We also added some next level caching rules to ensure we serve cache properly (especially with images coming from email campaigns which often add querystrings for tracking and the like).
From an initial play around, the site just feels snappier, but we'll give it a few days and see the before and after metrics. Happy (performant) holidays all.

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App updates to 3.12

We've been working a lot behind the scenes to better help with our payment tracking, and for when people upgrade / downgrade from their app stores instead of via the in-app purchase options. With that all working properly we needed to update our app to send a bit more information, which is now all tied into 3.12.
But, although that all sounds a bit boring to most, we also did some amazing and needed UI adjustments, as well as added a few more features. Along with some bug fixes throughout, the 3.12 change-log also includes:
  • Modals now are more prominent at go in-front of the footer bar
  • Premium upgrade modal is now completely reworked and standardised over all the surface points.
  • Still on the modals, we changed the header bar gradient to better reflect our branding, instead of the off brand colours we did have (although they did look nice)
  • We've changed the empty states for the Tried and Want to Try lists, so that they don't take up as much room and give more contextual text for users.
  • We added a By Ingredient section into the Home View, giving you all access to quick links to finding cocktails by individual ingredients. We also reworked the discover section for ingredients with the new design here (so much nicer).
  • We changed the Power search and Ask Cocktail Colin / Chris text boxes to be larger, as they are contextually meant for larger inputs. Easier to see your questions and text now.
  • We tweaked some iconography for adding to lists, standardising over the two areas they are surfaced, but also changing them to an 'add to list' icon instead of a bookmark or star.
It really feels like the app is in such a good (and beautiful) state now but we're always striving to improve and tweak where we can! Long live 3.12 (until 3.13).
We deep dived a little (partly submerged?) into some performance issues (especially for logged in users, but also for 'guests') on cocktails and lists, and improved not only the load time, but the memory usage of those pages. They should feel a lot snappier now and hit your browsers screens that split second sooner! Performance for the win!
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