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 a premium subscriber issue we also released this absolute banger of a list of features and updates into the app for you all:

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 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!

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.

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!

We've been 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:

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!

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:

A small but mighty update to our beautiful app.

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!

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!!

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!

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!

After literally releasing 3.12 yesterday, we wanted to get some holiday offers into the app for you, but were struggling to implement all the changes in our tight turn-around time, and 3.12 was such a big shift, we'd thought we'd split this update into two versions. We thought the holiday sale was going to hold us back for longer but we made a breakthrough today and managed to get it all working and synced!

With that in mind, we managed to compile and get 3.13 out onto the app stores. This one has the usual UI tweaks and some tiny stability fixes, but more importantly it deals with all the offerings we can throw at the the stores.

And that means .... theres a 40% off deal happening right now on the app (v3.13 - hopefully Play Store in the next few hours, App Store in a day or so). We've really tried to make this as smooth and easy for you as possible, and hope it matches all your expectations.

We've got 2 more big features to get into the app this side of Christmas, so watch this space as we keep on pushing our app to cocktail greatness. Phew! What a day!

As our busiest time of the year draws upon us, we wanted to really dive into the performance of our site and see if could improve it at all. We've done most meaningful on-site tweaks over the past year or so as we continually strive for performance perfection, but we've spent the first part of today working at the network level.

With that in mind, we've done a few things. Firstly we did actually change on on-site aspect - we modified the way some dynamic data is loaded onto cocktail pages (comments mostly) so they only load when coming into view. This helps for comment heavy pages quite a bit.

But then we moved to a network level and dived into all our Cloudflare logs and data, and tried to figure out exactly what was going on with our cache, routing and more. With that in mind we found some massive performance improvements from smarter routing to smarter image compression. We also added some next level caching rules to ensure we serve cache properly (especially with images coming from email campaigns which often add querystrings for tracking and the like).

From an initial play around, the site just feels snappier, but we'll give it a few days and see the before and after metrics. Happy (performant) holidays all.