Brewery's beer listings and "X marks a had"

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  1. stakem

    stakem Grand Pooh-Bah (4,070) Feb 20, 2009 Pennsylvania
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    Im not sure if this has been requested before. I looked through a couple pages and my initial searches revealed nothing even though I thought I mentioned this previously.

    When you go to a brewery's beer listing. Beers that you had or reviewed are all inclusively marked with a red X. In light of the new site updates, im requesting there be some differentiating marks for hads verse reviewed beer. This way, when a user clicks on a brewery's listing you can easily see if anything currently "had" can be upgraded to a review without individually clicking every beer that has a red X to see if it was had or reviewed.

    Just yesterday I visited a brewery and they had a beer on tap that rotates in/out very infrequently. I had a pint of said beer but didnt review it because when I pulled up the brewery's listing, it already had a red X and I assumed I had already reviewed it. Come to find out today, it has 0 reviews because I only "had" it in the past with no review.
     
    #1 stakem, Jul 23, 2015
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  2. BBThunderbolt

    BBThunderbolt Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,846) Sep 24, 2007 Kiribati
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    If you look at your own beer listed, there's an "R" next to the beers you've reviewed, and just a dash next to the ones you've just rated.
     
    #2 BBThunderbolt, Jul 23, 2015
  3. dbrauneis

    dbrauneis Grand High Pooh-Bah (8,071) Dec 8, 2007 North Carolina
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    That is not really the easiest solution for anyone that has a large number of reviews/ratings... Especially when you are looking at all the beers for a brewery that you might have visited on multiple occasions (and a brewery that does not fall at the end of beginning of the alphabet).
     
    #3 dbrauneis, Jul 24, 2015
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  4. BBThunderbolt

    BBThunderbolt Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,846) Sep 24, 2007 Kiribati
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    Yeah, I've noticed.:wink: But, it's pretty much the only solution I've found so far. It'd be a feature I'd support.
     
    #4 BBThunderbolt, Jul 24, 2015
  5. stakem

    stakem Grand Pooh-Bah (4,070) Feb 20, 2009 Pennsylvania
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    Today I will upload my 3,000th written review. For this one brewery in question alone I "had" 61 of their beers. (This includes hads and reviews mixed together.)
    No exaggeration, I took your advice and I sorted my reviews by Brewery name.
    Then, I started scrolling through the reviews to get to the brewery in question.
    After 5 minutes of clicking next (because it only goes 100 reviews at a time) I still was not even at the brewery listing.

    This doesnt help. Its no faster than individually clicking the 61 beers from the brewery listing to see if I reviewed or had them. Add to this issue that the brewery is in the middle of nowhere and simply getting 1 page to load is a feat within itself.
     
    #5 stakem, Jul 24, 2015
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  6. BBThunderbolt

    BBThunderbolt Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,846) Sep 24, 2007 Kiribati
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    I agree. As I said just above you, so far, it's the only work-around I've found. If you figure something else out, let me know.
     
    #6 BBThunderbolt, Jul 24, 2015
  7. metter98

    metter98 Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,303) Aug 29, 2006 New York
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    I agree and wish that there was a different symbol or a different colored "X" so I could easily find which beers I've rated versus which ones I've reviewed on brewery pages, style lists, top lists, etc. I've been looking for something like this ever since the "hads" feature was implemented.
    If you want to cut a few minutes off this step, you can advance one page (e.g., 201-250) and then manually change the URL to change the starting point inthe list (e.g. ?start=2000 to jump to 2001-2050) if you need to go very deep into a list, but this becomes a guessing game. However, It would be really nice if there was some type of filter that you can apply to just jump right to the data you are looking for.
     
    #7 metter98, Jul 26, 2015
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  8. drtth

    drtth Initiate (0) Nov 25, 2007 Pennsylvania
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    Even though I've only got about 850 entries its still a bit of a pain to try and go back and find the 100 or so hads that I might be able to do a review for and look at updating from a had to a review. (For the one offs that won't happen, but....)

    Even simply being able to sort on the column with the R indicators might be some help.
     
    #8 drtth, Jul 26, 2015
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  9. bubseymour

    bubseymour Grand Pooh-Bah (4,800) Oct 30, 2010 Maryland
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    Like I requested on another request, I think it would greatly expedite things to replace the column that has "X" for the beers your reviewed or Had, simply put your score of that beer or still blank if you haven't marked it reviewed/had yet. Really would speed up researching beer purchases, what you want to repeat or what you want to try new. Plus to see your score in a column and and the overall score in another column all in a breweries active beer page listing is really nice as well.
     
    #9 bubseymour, Aug 14, 2015
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