Frankly looking at fellow Ratebeerians vouching for more countries split* I wonder if RB was just the site tailored for its users and their expectations. Never changing, inert, stick in the mud waiting for its natural death.
*splitting into regions is nice and all, but seems just like painting the walls on a burning house
Agreed. If youāre trying to add users, you need to come up with more social additions. Something like:
Have a suggested beers to try - only people you are friended to can add what beer and where to get it (locationās last a week). Let people build the shopping list/pub crawl for you. User can choose what region to get locations from.
Just tossing things out there.
Definitely the social aspect. Like making likes not suck and work and show who they are by. Being able to comment on othersā ratings. Etc.
A feature I would like, is the same as other review sites, like TripAdvisor, have, and that is the ability to sort reviews by score. I find the negative reviews to be at least as useful as the positive, and generally more useful. At the moment we can find the top rated reviews very easily, and many of them are not worth looking at: āThis is the only beer I drink. Itās the best beer in the world.ā But in order to get to the negative reviews we have to tediously scroll through many pages. And at each new page we have to scroll down to the bottom again, there isnāt the ability to select scrolling at the top.
I also like to see the reviews by date. To see how the reviews have changed over time, or in response to something that happened, like a change in marketing or abv. .
I would also like the ability to simply select my overall score rather than tediously go through the arbitrary numbers. I know that most RateBeerians out in the field, do not go through the numbers, but simply give an overall score. āWhat do you reckon of this?ā āItās a 3 for me.ā āI was thinking more of a 3.5ā āWell I really like it, Iām going to give it a 4ā āItās just a 2.7 for me.ā
Note that SilkTorkās sorting of ratings and the ability to see how they change over time are features the site had for many years and that people have been asking to have back for a a few years now.
The feature Iād like to see is some sort of guaranteed cool-off time for the membership to organise an offer to buy the site or its database in the event that ABInbev decides they no longer wish to fund it. So a commitment that if that happens there would be some time (a fortnight or a month) for the membership or whoever to come up with an offer before the plug is pulled.
This has been noted there for a long time here for the devs to correct.
Social aspect would be our strength. Return of the DBG would be sweet. More public New ratebeerians list or acknowledgement could be cool, more inviting. Maybe a new forum asking new RBeerians what needs to help step up our old ass game of rating beer and beer info,shit and such.
Iād love to be able to consistently log in properly.
Whoa whoa whoa, letās keep things to a reasonable scope here.
Havenāt had any log in issues in a while.
It wants me to log in almost every time.
As an admin, I would have no problems verifying these scrapes for my local area.
Iād really like for this to feel like an cohesive site again. Right now, itās like separate sites for beer ratings, forums, stat pages, etc.
There are also lots of bugs and fixes, as described in the litany of replies above, that I would hope the devs would focus on rather than focusing on new features.
Cause it is lol. There are at least three versions of Ratebeer currently running that, as far as I can tell, use mostly or completely different tech stacks. And itās probably far more than that. Every rewrite thatās been done in the past has only been partial and only affected a set of pages, and many of those old pages that havenāt been rewritten are still kicking.
Yeah, the uniformity of the site using only one design (the latest) should be a priorityā¦ Right now having to go through different design on each click, with multiple logins depending on the design is simply awfulā¦
The fact that we get 1-2 updated page to new design per year is inacceptableā¦
Add to this that most of the bugs are still found on older pages (some being more than 10 years old) is just beyond comprehensionā¦
I mean, you still canāt do a normal beer search from the forum home page. Thatās been broken for like 3 years. I canāt imagine any new feature being successfully rolled out.
Iām happy just using the existing broken site as is, to be honest. Just donāt keep breaking things.
Whatās the addition of , FINAL ANSWER: BUG FREE, STREAMLINED TO NEW DESIGN, to the thread title mean? Was added in the last week or so?? Or am I just being my flaky fuckin self and missed it all this time? 
Thanks. So is this our future?
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