Use Beer Tools lately?

I have only been a member a bit more than a month and have already used Beer tools to report updated ABV, changes to availability, etc. In each case it seems I noticed edits were made in less than a day, although I don't get any notice that the change was made, but that is no big deal. If I had an edit rejected then I would like to know why.

 

Appreciate the insite

 

Is there any capability to alert the user that their edit/suggestion has been denied? Just curious as I have submitted a few beer pics that never took without any explanation.

Also the Mods saved my dumbass today so praise be! Use your beer tools BA & stack that karma!

 

Since this thread came up, I've been adding notes from the packaging of a lot of local brews that don't have them on their listing.

 

You can see how many you've added on your profile page (as has been pointed out), but you can't link directly to those beers. Would be a good tweak if possible.

 

I use it to change style/availability/beer notes all the time. It's a great tool to keep info up to date.

 

Regarding the uploading of photos...

Every new phone, tablet, or iWhatever, that comes out has a better and better camera with higher and higher resolution and, as a consequence, larger file size. But the site only allows upload of photos up to 20k. I'm finding it increasingly difficult to manipulate images to get them under the limit. The last photo I uploaded (River Roost, Shattered Illusions of Love) looks like I took it in a steam room.

There's probably a simple change I can make in my phone's settings but I'm old, I'm sick of shit changing all the time and I just want to drink the beer.

 

Yep....I so totally agree with all you said. I exhausted the exploration of settings on my phone before I concluded that the only way I was going to get the requisite 20kb limit PLUS the restrictive "exactly 150 x 300 pixels" or whatever BA now demands was to either spend a stupid amount of time trying to take the picture from far away then crop it exactly or decipher the parade of insufficiently detailed guidance posts that generally start with "all you have to do is...." followed by reference to some obscure software or internet site that either wants me to register or download something or some other task that falls into the category of "nope....not going to happen just to please BA".

 

Not trying to speak for @Todd, but I imagine that back when those restrictions were put into place, server storage along with the required backups were fairly expensive, so the restrictions were likely driven by economics for the site to be able to afford it.

Now, while server storage is considerably less expensive, the restriction is baked into the database and the software and would take a lot of effort and time to change.

Again, I am just speculating based on my professional experience with similar things in software, databases, and equipment costs.

Anyhow, for awhile I struggled also with making decent-looking 150x300 20KB pictures. I finally have a method that works fairly well and is reasonably efficient. My method does require a computer, though.

• Use Photoshop Elements (or your favorite cheap photo editing software) to crop the photo to a 1x2 aspect ratio around your subject. Actual pixel count doesn't matter. Neither does file size.

I also use Photoshop to resize the cropped picture to 800x1600 and then use moderate JPEG compression as I save the file, but this is likely not necessary.)
For some reason, Photoshop Elements pretty much destroys the quality of the photo if I use it to reduce it all the way down to 150x300 and with enough JPEG compression to get below 20KB. So, I have one more step...

• I drag the resulting file to the freeware app FastStone Photo Resizer, with the settings of 150x300, JEPG quality 91.

Verify the file size (usually in the 16KB range) and upload the result to BA.

 

Righty-fine. I don’t mind going a little bit above-and-beyond to pull my weight around here, and begging your pardon if I’m taking liberties, but I’m just going to go ahead and interpret the above as meaning that photos aren’t a big priority and that I should probably slack off a bit.

 

I don't need a response and I post this only as a data point that might not even have much value but as an FYI, when I was brand new here I really wanted to participate and I did post a couple pictures of new, previously unlisted beers along with my reviews. Since my computer is owned by my employer who does not allow unauthorized apps or software that would make the 20 kb+ 150x300 pixel limits easier it literally took me over 40 minutes to massage each photo into "compliance". That's when I decided I would do reviews but no freaking way would I continue with that photo posting process for the beer review pages.