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Over the past year we’ve made a number of important updates to RateBeer to allow us to better grow, revamping the user experience and creating our first in-house mobile app. Now, we’re expanding to support the most common request we’ve gotten for years – “How do I get these beers?”
In the coming months, we’ll be rolling out new features and enhancement including the ability to buy more beers through more online partners. After our successful tests of these services in the US and UK, we’ll be expanding these services into Australia. We’ve planned a few RateBeer events in Melbourne and Sydney Australia to kick off our efforts there. Check the newsletter for more info.
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Australian members will receive invites via email. The regular newsletter is for anyone to opt into. The form to do so is at the bottom right of every page on the site.
For one minute I thought that we were going to split Australia into territories with the Expansion title. No such luck, just another InBev Marketing push, darn it.
I looked at the community page and there is a RateBeer twitter post that says the Melbourne event is in less than 48 hours. That’s getting towards a bit late notice if I’m supposed to be invited. Maybe I’m not. No email received. Last weekly newsletter received November 9. One before that June 21. [edit: no, there’s one from August too]
That’s quite dissapointing to hear…from a quick look at the top Australian raters list there only seem to be 5 active raters based in Victoria above 1000 rates so it’s not like it needed a major emailing effort organising
Looks like Joet will be there in person for party per the Twitter so serious about Aussie land. We should at least split that country into regions to celebrate.
