We've tweaked a heap of UI throughout the site, fixing all those little niggles such as spacing between sections to be more consistent, some tiny alignment issues and the like. A load of "papercuts" as they are called in the "biz".

We've also added a small upsell on the level up / blog posts pages for non-premium members. Its business 'aint it'.

This is a bit of a backend housekeeping work that won't really effect the front end that much, but we've gone all in, deep dived into rich snippets on the site to help with search engines knowledge of the site, and to try and ensure we get the content to as many people as possible (cough SEO work cough).

We had a small issue with our blog / level up posts and their index at the top not showing sometimes. This is now fixed

We were having a look at one of our cocktails - Camerons Kick and we noticed Whisk(e)y was mentioned twice in the ingredient list.

Well thats because it is, it uses a scotch whisky and an Irish whisky mixed together, but of course our ingredient list looked really weird.

We didn't want to create whole new whisky categories (thats for another conversation) but we wanted a way to highlight an 'ingredient note' in the ingredient listing.

Well, we've just put that in place, so that we can now mention little ingredient notes in the ingredient listing if needed. Edge cases Im sure, but will help to give more detail on recipes. I can see this one being used quite a lot....

Geek alert! With our new nutrition information and reviews we've tweaked out rich snippet info to add this information in as needed. We've also added rich snippets to all our blog and level up posts now. Finally we noticed that our newsletters didn't have meta descriptions and titles, so fixed that for those viewing them online!

Nothing really most users will notice, but we're trying to keep the Google Bots happy with everything.

We've been working hard on getting nutrition information into our recipes, and trying to ensure they are accurate and useful for users. We've taken the first step in this, by actually working them all out in our database, and also adding them to the code behind the scenes for things like google etc.

We'll add them to the UI shortly once we figure out where we want them to go, but more useful information on the way!

You might have noticed (or maybe not), that we've a added in a really cool 'Cocktail colin says' review under certain cocktails. It's a little bit of AI to give the cocktail some context, a mini review if you will. We didn't want it to be too intrusive so have moved the layout around slightly to ensure we're not just pushing down the core criteria (ie the ingredients and method) away form use.

Useable recipes is still where we're trying to stay focused...

Take a look at the Cosmopolitan Cocktail for an example. Go Colin!

So theres been this bug on our login / registration / logout sequence for the past few months, that seemed to have effected a really really small number of users - but effected them nevertheless. It didn't allow people to login, or register sometimes. Logging out worked but gave them errors. It was all so strange and made NO SENSE.

Well finally, after some late night coding with a good friend, I think this bug is finally finally squashed and gone. It was such an edge case scenario ... but either way - done. YEY.

Our error tracker noticed a couple of small bugs in the new my bar functionality. This was a bit of an edge case where trying to add ingredients in a certain way would funk the system out. We squashed that.

We've also implemented a few extra catches for null's around the place, a few little gotcha's.

Nothing massive here, but we've also been squirrelling away on the new app and the api to deal with that.

Firstly, a small bug fix on our MyBar photo upload page, where it wasn't allowing large file sizes from decent camera phones. This has been fixed.

But then we also spent a good few hours enhancing and tweaking our photo matching algorithm, and UI, to make it more obvious whats going on, and to hopefully create more accurate results for you. A heap opf changes in here from showing you all links up in real time, to better iconography, more intuitive workings and better modal work.

We're slowly creating a better and better MyBar tool for you all.