A new chapter for Connosr

@jeanluc , thanks for the replies and everything here.

Is it just me, or does it feel like this update really shook up the community? I always liked Connosr, but it was feeling a little derelict before. Now it feels cool again. I, for one, intend to repay what this site have provided and start posting more reviews. I got a notebook full of them, but I've only ever posted the couple that I thought were amusing.

Page looks Amazing! Very modern. I am however having touble logging in from my phone, it is not working

@Alexsweden Can you email support@connosr.com so we can follow up on your login issue?

Very nice, good job.

@jeanluc,

the new site is brilliant. One feature that did not carry over, and which I dearly miss, is the 100 most popular whiskies.

@paddockjudge don't worry, that's coming back

@jeanluc

Will there be a faster rotation of featured reviews on the Frontpage? The former site had the same ones up for a number of years. It would be great fun to see ones own review up there sometime...

@Alexsweden Yes, I'm just finalising the algorithm for this

@Alexsweden The new algorithm for calculating the 'trending' reviews on the homepage is now in place. This will refresh every day and is based on a number of metrics including recent likes and comments

How do I delete a whisky from my cabinet?

@talexander We're releasing an update to the cabinet later this week. A couple of things - including the remove function - didn't make it into the initial launch version.

@jeanluc , I'm digging the new video clips on the main page.

Thanks @Ol_Jas. We promise to have less hipsters in the next clips we add

I think @Pierre is filming our dad having a dram on the beach next.

@jeanluc, great!

@jeanluc,

with all due respect to your father, I rather like the hipster in the clips...great taste in whisky and clothes.

@paddockjudge. But too many tumblers....

@paddockjudge @Nozinan More nosing / tasting glasses too

We have released an update to the cabinet feature today:

1. You can now delete items from your cabinet
2. You can 'archive' a cabinet entry (previously known as 'history')
3. You can view a list of archived cabinet entries (they are no longer mixed together)
4. You can cancel the cabinet score slider by clicking the 'x' when it is displayed

We have also fixed a few issues around cabinet search function:

1. You can order and sort cabinet search results by date added, name, rating
2. Cabinet search results are now paginated

cc @talexander @Nozinan who both asked about the above earlier in the thread

More updates on the way ...

We've just published another update:

1. A comment count has been added to review listings across the site. So you can see how many times people have commented without clicking into the review (thanks @Ol_Jas for the reminder on that feature).
2. Improvements to the in-page filters on the reviews index www.connosr.com/whisky-reviews this now respects the sorting and ordering better so you can filter reviews by keyword, score range, date, likes & comments.

Have a great weekend. More updates next week...

@jeanluc I wonder if it might be possible to create a search function for reviews within a certain user. For instance if I wanted to see only Auchentoshan reviews by @markjedi1 (well, that would still be a lot but you know what I mean), or OGD 114 by @Victor...

@Nozinan In fact you can use the review index filters to search by review author username too.

One undocumented feature is that you can use the + and - operators in your search query. For example markjedi1 +auchentoshan returns reviews by markjedi1 which mention auchentoshan in the title or bottle name.

markjedi1 +auchentoshan -signatory returns similar results but excludes reviews containing signatory.

@jeanluc tried it....
COOL

@jeanluc Thank you! I went through and fully updated my cabinet. One bug I noticed is that it is saying I have over 700 whiskies (I actually have between 80 and 90), even though there are not over 700 whiskies in my cabinet.

@talexander I think that the cabinet total includes the archive. I moved a couple of bottles to the archive and the total didn't change either.

@talexander @Nozinan good spot I've just applied a patch to fix this issue

Ironically, I think notification is broken for this particular thread. I get notified on updates to all other threads I've participated in (except those I've muted) but not this one. I just muted/unmuted it, so we'll see if that may have kicked it into gear.

I've checked my spam folder, just in case notifications for this thread for some reason would've been filtered away, but no dice.

@Nelom I've had a look in the database entry for your mute preference on this discussion and it looks ok. Also I am getting notifications fine.

Let's see if you get this?

@jeanluc I received a "jeanluc mentioned you" notification because of the @ reference, but not one about the thread being updated. Should I have received both?

Nelom – no, otherwise the duplicate notifications would be annoying. I've dropped the @ here deliberately to test.