New RateBeer Forums and BeerMail available now to early adopters

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Message joet P admin beers 2900 º places 125 º 17:32 Wed 10/18/2017 All RateBeerians are now invited to try out our new state of the art RateBeer forums. You can get a head start by digging into them here now: https://community.ratebeer.com/categories ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -- NOTICE: These forums along with its BeerMail system will replace the current related software in the coming weeks. ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -- From a usability perspective, our new forums offers a host of new features recently popularized by large social networks, such as infinite scrolling, live updates, oneboxing, expanding links, web site previews and drag and drop attachments. The aim is to modernize with the best and best-supported software available and thereby improve online discussion quality, primarily for a subset of users that spends the most time here. Additionally, moderators have more powers to stop SPAM and control wayward posting. We encourage your feedback and are breaking with tradition by creating a feedback category there for you to leave your thoughts. Enjoy! Cheers Joe
Message puzzl beers 3258 º places 138 º 22:59 Thu 10/19/2017 You probably don't want to point out how few posts there are per month. Overall I'd say it's, uh... not great. What's with the 60/40 veritcal split? There are too many colors, and they are all really close; you aren't providing value anymore with that, no one is going to go like "light green is site news and dark green is beer trade!". The infinite scrolling that you claim doesn't seem to exist, you still have to hit the More button. The design of the index page is really hard to visually track and distinguish and everything just blends together into one giant blob. The actual thread pages might be even worse. What's the the random bar of garbage below the first post? Tags? Who tags forum posts? That won't be used for anything but memes. The scroll position on the right side is silly and pointless. The new functionality is all well and good but the design is a huge step backwards.
Message blipp beers 14843 º places 219 º 23:06 Thu 10/19/2017 Not able to log-in on Safari
Message FatPhil P beers 26061 º places 995 º 00:12 Fri 10/20/2017 What happened to your promise to prioritise bugfixes over new "features"? In particular, "features" that precisely nobody has been clamouring for?

Message JaKeAFC P beers 2029 º places 50 º 10:24 Sun 10/22/2017 As above, site reliability, functionality and bugfixes first of all, forums can't be a priority. I'd say nowadays people uses facebook or other social platforms as forum.
Message Bitterbill beers 3241 º places 25 º 10:45 Sun 10/22/2017 I like the look of the new forums.
Message tmrmwel beers 4369 º places 65 º 12:27 Sun 10/22/2017
Message cgarvieuk P beers 37620 º places 457 º 16:37 Sun 10/22/2017 Originally posted by JaKeAFC As above, site reliability, functionality and bugfixes first of all, forums can't be a priority. I'd say nowadays people uses facebook or other social platforms as forum. your right, and i think ratebeer has been dieing a slow death as much because of FB and twitter as untappd. If ratebeer is to thrive I think that will be by keeping and building on the community i know rb for as well as getting the rating right just this trip to NY i met up with 6 different people at different times via ratebeer.

Message imdownthepub P beers 26051 º places 2103 º 03:23 Mon 10/23/2017 Fiddling with Forums and Beermail whilst Ratebeer burns.
Message fonefan P beers 74068 º places 698 º 03:37 Mon 10/23/2017 Originally posted by imdownthepub Fiddling with Forums and Beermail whilst Ratebeer burns. And Forums is the only thing that always works. Ps. New forum do not work on Chroombook Can only can see it in a split second and the it change to a blank white page that after very long time times out with a error.
Message AdamChandler P beers 6124 º places 278 º 09:22 Mon 10/23/2017 Joined! This is a huge upgrade. Nice job RB devs! It's very dynamic, fast, love it.