Sorry for the radio silence in the old Changelog recently, but its not due to us being quiet on the development front as we keep on pushing the boundaries and functionality of our app and website. A host of updates on the site including:

But along with that we've upgraded our infrastructure with much better backups now, a proper database scaling system, and a tweaked deployment.

Along with that we had a 2 day downtime about a month ago which meant all hands on deck as we worked hard to resolve that.

So as you can see, theres been a lot of groundwork behind the scenes that although you may not directly notice right now, it helps keep everything secure, working and efficient!

We updated our app to 2.91 a couple of days ago. Just some very small wording changes.

We also found a bit of time to firstly streamline our MyBar page on web, so that premium members dont get slowed down by a large mybar image. We have also cleaned up our categorisation of MyBar, adding Scotch, moving Allspice Dram to its correct parent, and combining the whisky categories. Should be a lot simpler and more inituitive now.

Oh and the usual new cocktails and new blog posts ahoy!

Our beautiful app is such a labour of love for us, and we're putting every ounce of effort into polishing and refining it before the big 3.0 launch where we'll start to introduce a pro version with a host of power features.

So last week we introduced v2.90, with rebuilt comments, a whole new 'discover' tab, which opened up the door to searching by ingredient, moods, sets and more. We also added some pre-loading onto cocktails and results, so the app just feels so much snappier.

We haven't forgotten our beautiful site though, we're working on an enhanced new UI which we're looking to launch in the new few weeks. Keep those eyes peeled.

For now, as always, let us know any issues, thoughts, ideas or otherwise and keep on shaking.

No need to update, but we've fine tuned some of the resources we send to the app when you request cocktail information. There's a very noticeable improvement to load times now, in the vicinity of 5-6x faster!!! HUGE!

Basically, the app is loads faster for you all :) Wahoo!

Recently we launched v2.86 of our app with a host of tiny tweaks, cocktail comments, user loading screens and more. It was an incremental update from 2.8 which introduced a more streamlined user friendly system with more natural screen loading animations and less jerky interactions.

Along with our ever evolving app we've also reworked our cocktail creation scripts so we can more easily add new cocktails into the system (theres a host of things we have to do to get a cocktail online), and changed the way some listings work for premium lists.

A nice little tidy up for everyone in the lat week or so! As always, anything you notice or want improved let us know.

We've spent a good hour refining a few edge case errors that we found in our logs - the usual suspects of people trying to hack, but also some catches for some real edge cases that seem to happen. Slowly but surely we're getting to no errors being reported. For a system this big, thats running over 2 app platforms as well as the web, we're super proud of this! Some of the changes include:

And a few other small bits of protection! Wahoo

January usually comes at us with a bit of downtime after the Christmas and New Year period (where we x4-x5 traffic), however we really really wanted to get our new UI finished on our app! So we spent a large amount of time to release MMAC App v2.8 - and boy does it look sweet.

We've refined every little component, and every little UI choice, completely rebuilding the home screen that is now so lovely it hurts (ok maybe I'm going too far).

If you haven't taken a look at our app recently then dive on in, it automatically syncs with your online account here and makes it really easy to quickly find what you are after.

We're now looking at a slight UI refresh on our web based site, but wondering how far down this rabbit hole we should go. We'll let you know!

We've spent some time crunching the numbers after the crazy holiday period and found our sites Top 100 Cocktails of 2024. We wanted to spend some time finessing the deliverable here, making the site look and work nice, as well as providing a heap of commentary on the cocktails.

We've put together what we hope it a great rundown of the results, with some information and thoughts. We hope you love the piece as much as we did putting it together!

Theres some big updates coming in 2025, so watch this space!

Wow, what a period we had, and with an absolute huge number of you hitting the site either via the app or the website. We'll do a post Christmas / 2024 roundup shortly when we get a chance to breathe, but it was a fantastic time for us all.

However, never one for slowing down, we've carried out a few little maintenance tasks today, as well as adding 7 new cocktails and a few more ingredients. We updated all our search and AI models to have the latest information and also updated the site to be less 'Christmas'.

Happy New Year all!

We've been squirelling away on our app to get a big new released out in time for you all at Christmas! It should be live on the app stores already but if not heres the update we just released on Android and iOS:

Theres a lot in this new release (2.70) and also sets us up nicely to advance the app in new ways moving forward. We're loving creating the best cocktail app out there. More coming soon!!