Updates to brewery stats, beer lists, and beer status

Hey, everyone!

Another quick update as I plow through some housekeeping items before the end of the year...

Brewery Stats:

Updated the core Beer Stats for places tagged as a brewery.

• Average (across all beers), (number of) Beers, and (number of beer) Ratings now include all beers vs. just those that aren't retired. These stats should be fully updated across all active places within the next 24 hours.
• Created a new stat for each of above that only considers beers that've been rated within the last two years and aren't retired (the theme of this update).
• Created new stats for number of New, Inactive, and Retired beers, which are now displayed under Beer Stats. I was generating these in realtime with each page load, but now they're stored and updated as needed for improved efficiency.

This will give us some all-time and recent stats to play with, the latter of which I plan on applying across multiple updates in the new year.

Beer Lists & Tabs:

The Active tab now only shows active beers (as previous defined). This is to help reduce the number of beers loaded within this default view and to keep things bit more relevant for most users. Additionally, it's now the only tab that's accessible if you're not logged in.

Example: @Shreeve recently mentioned that Cloudwater's active beer list had lots of retired beers on it, but tagging a beer as retired is reserved for when we have confirmation that a brewery has discontinued / no longer brews it. It's also a lot of work for someone to check and report hundreds of beers, so I went for a passive solution which reduced Cloudwater’s beer list from 505 to 148 beers under the Active tab.

Inactive beers now have their own tab, but can also be found under the All tab, New tab (if applicable), or while searching. If rated, they'll move under Active. If retired, they'll move under Retired.

Tabs have been reordered: All, Active, New, Inactive, and Retired.

Beer Status:

Slight adjustment to the status on beer pages and the corresponding color. Currently only applied on the status listed on the beer page and last activity date when viewing the All tab, but I hope to apply it elsewhere over time. Also helps to normalize what's considered an "active" beer.

• Active (green) = a beer that's been rated within the last two years and isn't retired
• Inactive (muted) = not retired, but not rated within the last two years
• Retired (red) = officially discontinued by the brewery / no longer brewed

As a reminder, only active beers are ranked (no change here) and please submit a report if you know for sure that a a beer has been retired.

Keeps things simple, clean, and more descriptive.

Kippis!

 

Spoiler: I plan on creating some top rated lists for places.

 

Updates: (added most of this to my original post too)

• Created new stats for number of New, Inactive, and Retired beers, which are now displayed under Beer Stats. I was generating these in realtime with each page load, but now they're stored and updated as needed for improved efficiency.
• Active tab is now the only tab that's accessible if you're not logged in.
  
• Inactive beers now have their own tab, to avoid confusion.
  
• Tabs have been reordered: All, Active, New, Inactive, and Retired.
  
• Fixed a bug when calculating the number of all beers on the page. Now uses the stored total. Thanks to @brentk56 for bringing this to my attention.
• Fixed the anchor link when viewing lists. Now drops you down the page to a better and more consistent view to make toggling between beers, place reviews, and tabs a better experience.

Enjoy!

 

I won't say never, but I don't see it happening any time soon as it would require ranking these beers separately and significant updates to support this.

 

It was fine ten years ago when the lists were manageable, but loading hundreds/thousands of beers on the add a beer form has simply become too much, so it now defaults to a prompt with link to view all beers (one click).

Same issue with the default view on brewery pages. Even with the update, the active list of beers is still in the hundreds for many breweries. By making all beers the default, it would basically reverse much of the goal of this update (me trying to balance resources and relevance), but it's just one click away for those who need it.

It might be a compromise of convenience for some, but I hope you get the reason why.