Changelog
Follow up on the latest improvements and updates.
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Multi devices allowed
We've made a backend change so that you can share your login / bar with friends. You're now allowed a maximum of 3 devices to be logged into a single account at one time - useful if you are sharing a bar and both want to see cocktails you can make. Or one of you with a recipe making a cocktail in-front of you, another looking for the next!!
Device administration is coming to the app in the next release
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More app updates - 3.24 (and 3.25)
We've spent a good few days trying to put together a few final touches before we tackle some more complex harder problems with the app and website (notably the MyBar feature and videos). Lets cut to the chase, so heres the changelog for the app from 3.21 to 3.25:
- If your typing in search, or mybar search or a couple of other areas we hide the footer. It was taking up too much retail space and isn't needed when you are typing
- We've added a tasting numbers count to the Account menu item
- More textual content for empty states to help with onboarding for those features
- Changed Cocktail Colin to add in 'per month' so users realise they get free Q&A's per month, not as a one shot
- Tasting notes modal has been improved for current tasting notes. Swish!
- We've added a great little bit of fun, that was first asked of us 4 (!!!0 years ago. Shake to mix. Enable it in your account and now you can shake the app to be taken to a random cocktail (that you can make). Just like shaking a little cocktail shaker :) We've got some ideas to gamify this more in the future, but for now its a real little bit of fun!
- When searching, if it finds more than 10 possible cocktails it has a 'show all results' where we show all the results with that text in
- Moved 'made with' above 'listmania' in the cocktail search results. Its what people use a lot more so wanted to bring it up a little.
- Search results are now remembered as you navigate through the app. So if you search, find a cocktail, load it up, then click on search again your results are still shown
- Cocktail Connie / Cocktail Colin now have memory and show you your previous conversations with them (if you've had any)
- Changed some UI in the upgrade notification and pil box, and also if you're a premium member we've added a subtle bottom bar to the header bar in premium colours
- In the Account section, theres now a 'Leave us a review' box (that you can toggle off and not show again).
- We've also made the buttons on account header larger, and when saving your account, it goes back to your Account page upon save, with a much more obvious dialog message box
- We've added in the meta data of 'Created by' (if we know it) to the cocktail meta. We want to highlight this even more in upcoming releases, but for now we show you that information.
- Replying to a comment hides the core comment box. Before it was just taking up a heap of space and confusing users. This way is much sicker and streamlined and gives the user room to make a comment
- A heap of other small but subtle UI touches and textual changes, and some other minor bugs squished throughout to just ensure we're keeping the app fresh and working for you all
And now we can hopefully just leave the app sit for a little bit, as we really work on the next generation of cocktail creation. Version 4 hopefully coming to you in the first quarter of this year.
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App moves from 3.15, to 3.16, to 3.21
Around 4-5 days ago we noticed that some of our lifetime subscribers were being downgraded in our app when logging in. We could easily upgrade them again, but on every login it would downgrade again. We investigated and pushed up a real quick fix in 3.16 (launched 3 days ago). However, a day later we noticed that we had only half fixed the problem, and hadn't caught the whole issue.
Well we took a breath, fixed this properly (hopefully) but also took the opportunity to release a host of features we'd been working on. So along with that premium subscriber issue fix we also released this absolute banger of a list of features and updates into the app for you all:
Custom Lists
Our website has had them for a long time, but how to properly integrate them into our app took some finessing and love. But we finally figured it out and delivered this beautiful feature for you all. Custom lists, privacy options, cocktail adding and removal, all integrated. This one has been asked by you all for a while, and now its there!
Tasting notes upgraded
Tasting notes have, for a long time, been present but not properly surfaced or searchable. We've fixed this and put some love into it all. You now have a dedicated page for all tasting notes, we've given you the ability to delete a tasting note (how was that missing), and also added a little number pil to show how many you have if you've added one / some. Nice!
Cocktail imagery
We added the ability to add photos into cocktail comments a couple of months ago, but we've enhanced this feature so that you can now add a photo directly from the cocktail itself (without the need of a comment). We've surfaced these, and any comment photos, directly on that thumbnail section.
Search upgraded
Power searches (for premium members) are just so cool, but some of you were asking about surfacing your old searches, and if you go back, you cant find it again. We've fixed that now so you can view your old searches and results, instantly loading up the relevant data.
We also took the time to give a little love to our common search, with some loading indicators and more so the page didn't jar as much, and delivered a smoother experience.
Finally, we changed our app icons to remove the Christmas hat and added a nicer loading screen animation when you first load up the app. Fun times!
With all this stuff we're always tweaking and changing as we get feedback, and once the features settle a little. But for now, get the new update and enjoy the beautiful app experience! We always welcome any feedback!
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Website updates - a big January one for you
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recently, as we finally came out of the haze of Christmas and New Year to add a heap of features, refactor some old dependencies and rework lots of stuff in our backlog. We'll just get on with throwing you a big list of updates:- You can now remove cocktails from any of your own lists. How was this missing before?
- You can delete a cocktail that you've created from the cocktail creator
- New 'alcohol strength' filter on the results page so you can view a range of cocktails based on strength. This thing is clever so it only shows the minimum and maximum based on the results (rather than an arbitrary range)
- Still on the results page, we've added a new filter 'Can make but not tried' to help you discover some great new cocktails
- Moved the tried and want to try list toggle, on the cocktail page, out of the core list select box and given them their own toggle. Alongside this we reworked the height of that box for people with loads of personal lists.
- We've enhanced out billing page to show a lot more information for you, should you be a premium member. It now shows you if you subscribed via the app or the website, your premium level and more.
- We've completely rebuilt all modals on the site to use a new framework under the hood. This was huge, a massive refactor (theres a lot of modals throughout), but removed one of our old dependencies and also allowed us to migrate to a newer, more accessible and fresher looking modal.
- Alongside this, we've changed out search box that comes up to use this new framework as well (fluxui.dev for those who are interested). Not only is it super fast, but we've added imagery, given you the ability to view results for a generic search string (something we've been missing for a long time), and reworked the UI to be fresher and more aesthetically pleasing!
- We noticed the two floating buttons on the cocktail page were out of position now we're not highlighting our Christmas or New Year pages, so we repositioned those for when special dates aren't being shown there.
- We fixed a bug on the cocktail page for cocktails with large textual background content, where it would relayout the page incorrectly. This was from a previous refactor which we changed slightly, but forgot to change the layout back.
And probably some more to go alongside all this. We're working hard on our beautiful site and app this year, so keep your eyes peeled for more updates over the coming months!
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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.
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App moves to 3.14
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!
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Internal meanderings
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!!
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Dashboards, bugs and sneak peaks
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!
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December sales, subscriptions and more
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!
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