We've done a quick visual tidy up on our posts, level up and blog. We now show time to read, word counts, some sub heading and made the reading content area more pleasing to the eye; we've generally increased our visual appeal with some extra UI touches.

The should be a lot nicer to read now, and hopefully the extra meta gives you more info upfront.

See our Surprising Mocktail Recipes That Taste Like the Real Thing for an example.

We noticed an error in our email webhook calls which meant that failed email sends werent being logged, and deal with (i.e. unsubscribed) from our email lists. We _think_ we've caught this now, so any failed messages sent should automatically be removed from the email list. Fingers crossed.

To note this would not have effected unsubscribes, which were working perfectly!

We've been working behind the scenes to clean up our email lists, removing some malformed emails that slipped through the cracks before we tightened up the email validation. We've also fixed a couple of small bugs in the email subscription process here.

Along with this, we've added a new preferences where you can set if you'd like to receive site news from us. This won't be used often, just for big updates and the like, but separates this out from the recipe drop, ingredient deep dive or 3rd party promotional stuff.

All ground work for some big updates coming soon.

We've tightened up our email security to do proper checks on valid email addresses now, just to stop fake accounts being created, or from helping users who mistype during registration.

We've started a new wave of cleanups for our cocktail methods and ingredient lists. We noticed a few errors creeping into them all and have started to fix the errors. This is a long process over all 3000+ cocktails, so bear with us, but we're trying to prioritise the more popular ones first.

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.