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Follow up on the latest improvements and updates.
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App updates to 2.9
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.
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App speed improvements
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.
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Clean up
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:
- When a menu from a search contains invalid characters, we know redirect to menu creator
- Random cocktail generator sometimes would return a cocktail that no long existed. This is fixed
- When registering our stripe listeners would sometimes look for a coupon code even though non was used. It didn't effect anything but the webhook wouldn't return a 200 to stripe
- Couple of cases when some SQL's were using an IN command with nothing to look IN (due to users removing things). All fixed.
- When finding cocktails you can make, having a default of Cant make as a catch all scenario
And a few other small bits of protection! Wahoo
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New App!!!
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!
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More app updates
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:
- New My Bar guided view - this is a big one. Search coming soon ...
- Filters on all results screens for can make, liked and non-alcoholic. Filter by ingredient coming soon...
- A heap of small but beautiful UI touches
- Added method and ingredients in photo thumbnail view.
- Extra info on cocktail ingredients if applicable
- Extra loading screens where needed
- And the usual bug fixes.
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!!
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Menu tweaks
We've made a couple of small tweaks in all our menus. Alcohol percentages are now rounded, no-one needs to know there 15.83% of alcohol, no one pours that accurately :) On the web version of the menu the cocktails are now links to the actual cocktails themselves (they load up in a new window) so people can see a little more about each one.
We've also added onto our roadmap - bartenders version, so you can include the method, the amounts etc. Its coming ...
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App updates galore
We've found a day to update our app for both Android and iOS. This was quite a big update as we had quite a few things we wanted to change:
- Now tabbed view on MyBar so you can see your complete bar in one place, instead of just the adding hierarchical view. This was a big one as we worked on keeping everything in sync, but now its done its totally worth it and it seems almost strange we never had it in the first place.
- We changed the search modal to just make it look 🤌 Completely new start look, and the search results are now super prettified! Wahoo.
- We've added a 'shake to make' feature. This was a much requested feature from our old app that we couldn't quite get into the initial launch, but its back!! Now shake your device and we'll surface a completely random cocktail for you. We'll only show you a cocktail you can make (if you can), so you can have a play with this. Its a great cocktail roulette feature. We've also added a random icon in the header bar.
- Fixed a few bugs in logout, and the MyBar.
- Refreshed icons in certain places, just upping the stroke weight from 1.5 -> 2. Its a subtle change but it helps make the icons pop a little more.
- Our level up posts now show proper internal linking if they reference another post, instead of sending users away form the app to our site. We also fixed the issue with list cards and recipe cards sometimes not showing in certain conditions. Basically level up posts have been powered up.
- Some new wording and other small UI tweaks throughout.
Phew, take a breath before the weekend ..... now update that app, shake like you're a real bartender, and get making. Enjoy everyone!
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