A forum with 5 million people posting on it would be an absolute nightmare to be fair though.
They do a have a public Discord server which is active. Social (online) events are organised there, main one being a monthly drinking project where a certain style is typical chosen once per month and users will make an effort to checkin and discuss the ones they have, particularly if they are able to find rarer examples.
There are also regional channels as well as a dedicated beer trades channel. So yes, all of what you asked can and is done there, but to a lesser degree than here obviously - itās no substitute for actual forums of course, itās different, and for some things itās worse since the conversation is always flowing around one topic, rather than separate threads for each thing. A dedicated discussion forum like this one is always going to be better than a chat server.
Also as Iznogud pointed out. Private messaging between users is a thing so trades can be organised that way although itās not generally obvious if people are up for trading, better to go through Discord for that. People can and do use the lists feature in a similar way to how the wants/haves/cellar feature of RB used to be used. You can set all the details of the beers you have there (quantities, purchase date, best before date, canning/bottling date, vintage if applicable, as well as notes and a photo).
same here, and now Iām checking out BeerHive too. Still young, focused on Belgium, but I love the visual interface for describing beers. What I miss most about the old RB app, which I still have running on my phone, is the lack of seeing my stats and the Nearby function. Thereās a lot more to do in my account than rate a beer, which is all the new app doesā¦
Incredibly UT now has a live and working āyear in beerā. Not surprisingly itās something ratebeer used to have a couple of years ago but of course thatās broken now. There really is nothing left here but the ratings itself, the text, the descriptions of us users, that is of any value. Unbelievable that this site, after more than a year, still is deteriorating and spiralling towards selfdestruction.
RateBeer feels pretty abandoned right now. I mean, we havenāt even had a response as to why the add images function was removed and when it will be returned.
I was hoping that they would roll out the new styles as a sort of Christmas/New Yearās gift and surprise everyone, but it looks like nothing of the sort will happen.
Untappd activity feed is as bad as rb-s (although in different ways), especially if you have friends who check-in rb backlogā¦ At least untappd is improving, although slowlyā¦ while ratebeer-s āimprovementsā most of the time make things worseā¦
I did recently start an Untapped account, just so I could see the full beer list at my local beer shop.
I then experimented with adding a few ratings to see what all the fuss was about
I hated it.
The Untapped stats are crap compared to Ratebeer (badges for every other beer donāt do it for me; I much prefer colouring in maps, multiple league tables, and more statistical analysis than you can shake a nonic at).
The Ratebeer forums are great. I couldnāt see anything comparable on Untappd.
The accuracy on Untappd is lamentably bad. The number of times Iāve seen a rare US beer listed at a UK Wetherspoons, just because the beer name shared one word with a UK mass-market beerā¦
The colour scheme on Untappd is 'orrible.
So Iāll be sticking with Ratebeer until the end (unless the owners dumb it down to a UT clone). Although I will continue to back up my ratings on a spreadsheet just in caseā¦ and Iāll continue to withhold my RB premium membership until I get some evidence that the site owners are listening to feedback from long-term users, and responding to legitimate queries/concerns/ideas.
Indeed the Vancouver community (almost all on UT) immediately posted their stats.
I wanted to post that of the local community is the top rater of RB for 2018, but the page goes clunk robotā¦
Iām not sure where itās not available because I donāt login with other accounts, but I think that it was removed for preventing abuse (voluntarily or involuntarily; people are used to UT, and they may believe that they will just add a blurred picture of their lipstick laced glass, instead they replace the good and only picture of the label).
Some ideas were thrown around, like enabling the link only if a picture is unavailable, or allowing multiple pictures.
Obviously it takes development hours and the resources are finite.
You can add a picture on the Beer Add page, or sending it by email.
Which reminds me, beware that there is no machine reading the mails; as usual, the job is done by any admin who has time to spare, so there is no guarantee on how long it takes.
The dropdown on the right side allows you to pick any past year.
And just to comment about Untappd: I double dipped for a year or so, then I gave up.
Crappy design; sadly the same shit we are moving into here (wide spread info is not good for analysis and decision making, just ok for bored kids that swipe without reading).
And too many idiots throwing 4.5 stars at drain pours.
