Review Icon Feedback

http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/rip-review-icon.157286/

Since the thread where the updates were made were locked, I wanted to provide my feedback here.

I can see the rational for removing the "Review" icon and realize it had an impact on the number of database queries, but I ask that you at least consider keeping it in certain locations rather then removing it fully across the website for the time being until a better solution can be identified. Specifically, those locations such as Top 250, Beers of Fame, etc. are where I feel that it is truly valuable and the lists in their current format (i.e. no review indication) while nice from a list perspective, do not provide much value to users who want to see how many they've had or what they are missing. While of course I can go and check each beer individually, that is a very manual task and given how much movement there is towards the bottom of the Top 250 not something I want to do on a daily basis.

I'm sure I'm not the only one that feels this way, but I appreciated how I could always go to a brewery page and quickly scan their full list to see what I had versus what I had not had. I'd be willing to bet that many users considered these features a vital part of the site and not something that was just a small convenience.

I am hoping that this is something the BA team collectively decides to revisit soon or explores ways to provide similar functionality as part of the upcoming site redesign.