Official Untappd Thread

[markgugs]

EHR-MAH-GAHD Untappd is down!!! What do I do?!

 

[stupac2]

EHR-MAH-GAHD Untappd is down!!! What do I do?!

 

[disGRUNTled1]

Just started using my untappd last night I have a album with a picture of each beer I drink add it 218 beers last night with pics ..I have no friends on my account looking to add some from tb ...will follow this thread .

 

[spicecowboy]

Not sure if this has come up before, but some kind of double-ended buggy thing seems to be going on with someone I sent a friend request to, and who claims to have also sent a friend request to me (both a long time ago). Each of us sees "pending acceptance" from the other on our respective accounts.

Though I can't rule out the possibility that my "friend" secretly hates me and is feigning ignorance.

 

[matedog]

It's bayesian, so beers with fewer ratings have a lower rating.

Did some further reading: http://help.untappd.com/kb/beer-guidelines/how-are-ratings-determined-on-untappd

Interesting method that should prevent skewed ratings from outliers and/or people trying to hype more limited beers. Still kind of frustrating to know beers with fewer ratings are more susceptible to being tempered by this system. Fortunately, Untappd seems to have the most ratings/reviews of the beer review sites I reference.

 

[falc0n26001]

No wonder de Garde seems to be ranked way lower than they should be. There's simply way less bottles of them.

 

[stupac2]

Still kind of frustrating to know beers with fewer ratings are more susceptible to being tempered by this system.

That's literally the entire point. The fewer ratings something has the less confident you are that it deserves those ratings. Does this bias the system against small releases? Yes, by design. Because, again, with small releases you have way less confidence that they're actually good. This is the reason everyone flipped out when BA lowered their threshold for the top 100 to 25 reviews, it made the lower half of the list a neverending rotation of flavors of the month. That's bad design.

 

[SoCalBeerIdiot]

I'm beyond drinking beers to chase badges at this point but I was happy to see a "Happy Birthday L.A." badge--that is, until I noticed I have to drink 3 Angel City beers to get it. Seems ****** that any random brewery can hijack a city/regional badge like that with what, money I suppose? Just sayin'. /rant

 

[stupac2]

I'm beyond drinking beers to chase badges at this point but I was happy to see a "Happy Birthday L.A." badge--that is, until I noticed I have to drink 3 Angel City beers to get it. Seems ****** that any random brewery can hijack a city/regional badge like that with what, money I suppose? Just sayin'. /rant

It's not hijacking, a lot of new badges are sponsored and so the sponsor gets to pick the parameters of the badge (within reason). Angel City (whoever that is) just chose to call it that.

 

[SoCalBeerIdiot]

It's not hijacking, a lot of new badges are sponsored and so the sponsor gets to pick the parameters of the badge (within reason). Angel City (whoever that is) just chose to call it that.

I fully understand what you're saying. However, a "Happy Birthday LA" badge would make more sense is you simply had to drink 3 beers made in LA (or LA county, whatever). The fact that they could sponsor a badge and name it after the entire city irks me. There's no right or wrong, just annoyance (esp. cuz their beers suck for the most part).

 

[stupac2]

Well looks like a lot of you guys are going to be happy:

In addition, we’ve made some updates to how our ratings system will work. Starting now, when you check-in to a beer, your rating will be applied to that specific check-in instead of directly to the beer. This means if you change your rating on a specifc beer, it won’t change your overall rating to what you chose that second time, but instead will calculate an average based on all of your ratings. This allows you to rate your beers based on how they were in that specific check-in experience.

 

[Michigan1]

Well looks like a lot of you guys are going to be happy:

I wonder how this will affect a person's top beers

 

[deadweights]

I like the update, especially the easier search. Hopefully a barcode scanner in the future.

 

[Michigan1]

Too many joke check-ins...

 

[LukeAleTime]

Is this allowed?

https://untappd.com/brewery/143017

 

[JulianB1]

stupac2, a couple of additions/tweaks I was wondering might be in the pipeline, discussed, or potentially considered. Apologies if some of this stuff has been added recently (or was always available) and I just haven't noticed it or figured out how to see it:

-Ability to search your current friends list. Sometimes I want to look up a specific person's profile to check out a beer they had recently, look at their ratings, etc. When you have a huge list of active friends it's a pain to scroll through, and your "feed" grows so quickly that looking back through that quickly becomes infeasible after a day or two.

-Top users. Basically be able to see who have checked in the most beers, most uniques, etc. Maybe a top 25 list or whatever.

 

[stupac2]

Is this allowed?

https://untappd.com/brewery/143017

No, it's been flagged for deletion.

Ability to search your current friends list. Sometimes I want to look up a specific person's profile to check out a beer they had recently, look at their ratings, etc. When you have a huge list of active friends it's a pain to scroll through, and your "feed" grows so quickly that looking back through that quickly becomes infeasible after a day or two.

I'm surprised this doesn't exist. Suggest it on the forums, though it's probably been suggested before.

Top users. Basically be able to see who have checked in the most beers, most uniques, etc. Maybe a top 25 list or whatever.

Highly doubt that would ever happen. They like the gamification, but I don't think they want it to be a global contest. That would just create problems when it's a trust-based system. The top drinkers on individuals beers is probably the only thing like that we'll ever seen.

If you're curious about anything I can ask, I know they can query the DB easily enough. I know I was one of the first ~50 to hit 2500 uniques, for instance.

 

[HopHeadScott]

I loaded it on my phone finally a few months ago, as a fella I know back East wanted to spy on my drinking habits!
he sent a friend request, I think/thought I accepted, but we're still not connected and the request's status is "pending". I'd hate to bug these busy guys try to get the request accepted, but might.
this app is like Facebook for beer geeks. I like it, but once in a while I'll get friend requests from people I just don't know, just like Facebook!
I sure appreciate being able to find what's being tapped locally, "LIKE"

 

[stupac2]

I loaded it on my phone finally a few months ago, as a fella I know back East wanted to spy on my drinking habits!
he sent a friend request, I think/thought I accepted, but we're still not connected and the request's status is "pending". I'd hate to bug these busy guys try to get the request accepted, but might.
this app is like Facebook for beer geeks. I like it, but once in a while I'll get friend requests from people I just don't know, just like Facebook!
I sure appreciate being able to find what's being tapped locally, "LIKE"

Friend requests don't require any admin action, if you friend someone and they accept then that's that. So someone hasn't actually accepted yet, or something's gone haywire in the system. If it still shows as pending in an hour or two and you're both sure you've clicked "accept", then open a ticket in the help forum.

 

[HopHeadScott]

thanks, will do. this request had been pending for probably six weeks

 

[stupac2]

thanks, will do. this request had been pending for probably six weeks

Hmm, in that case someone probably clicked "reject" on accident (or on purpose, I guess). You should post on the forum.

 

[Dicers]

Is there going to be a Zwanze badge?

 

[stupac2]

Is there going to be a Zwanze badge?

No. Badges are only for events where the coordinators contact the Untappd guys well in advance, and there's no way JVR will ever do that.

Shelton might, though they haven't afaik sponsored any yet. If VdW imported Cantillon then there'd probably be one.

 

[HopHeadScott]

Friend requests don't require any admin action, if you friend someone and they accept then that's that. So someone hasn't actually accepted yet, or something's gone haywire in the system. If it still shows as pending in an hour or two and you're both sure you've clicked "accept", then open a ticket in the help forum.

My PC allowed me to correct the issue. Cell phone, no such luck. Cell phone won't allow me to comment anymore on friends check in's, but the PC will. Weird. I sent in a ticket

 

[Lutter]

I always chuckle to myself when someone hits a milestone (1, 250, 500, 1000, etc...) and is drinking some ******** beer that they say they hate. Plan dat ****, man!

 

[willseph]

This may have been covered (and if so please point me to the right page of this thread) but is there a way to search a user's unique checkins? I'm looking to send some new ticks but I'd hate to go through all 3500+ check ins to see if the dude has had Chelada before.

 

[lambandtunaphish]

This may have been covered (and if so please point me to the right page of this thread) but is there a way to search a user's unique checkins? I'm looking to send some new ticks but I'd hate to go through all 3500+ check ins to see if the dude has had Chelada before.

Yes. On that user's page, you can click on the number of uniques and it brings you to a page like this (or just replace the name in the link below with their username and it should work)
https://untappd.com/user/willseph/beers

You can then filter by brewery, style, etc.

 

[willseph]

Thank you sir!

 

[gregkoko]

I always chuckle to myself when someone hits a milestone (1, 250, 500, 1000, etc...) and is drinking some ******** beer that they say they hate. Plan dat ****, man!

I just never plan it out.

500: Ithaca Dark Humor...just a regular Thursday night at the Copper Mine
1000: Uinta Hop Notch - Random Saturday at Mugs Ale House
2500: Tomorrow tailgating for the Rutgers game. Brought a couple of bottles to share with a friend. Nothing crazy. One of them will wind up being 2500. I'd rather save the really good stuff for when I'm at a big share with friends

 

[deadmolecules]

These new hollow icons are awful. I feel like they're going backward with their design.