A new chapter for Connosr

Small update, when you include a YouTube URL in a comment (like this test www.youtube.com/watch) it will automatically be picked up for the video field below.

It also checks that the video URL is valid and publicly available to embed.

Thanks @jeanluc!

@jeanluc, nice touch. I wondered why David Bowie was serenading my post.

A couple of minor updates to mention:

1) There is now an (optional) colour slider in the create review process. This tints the liquid in whisky bottle image when a generic bottle template is used.

2) You can now mute a discussion via a link in the notification emails. In the footer of the message you'll find a Mute this thread text link.

Congratulations @jeanluc on your new feature!

No other whisky site can predict the future. Imagine my amazement when I looked at the thread and it told me what I was about to post!

If you can develop this more, and look just a little further ahead, imagine how useful it would be. We could read reviews of whiskies before they are even released and have an advantage in terms of getting them before they sell out!

If you could expand to publishing lottery results early, we might even be able to afford some of these said new releases!

Well done!

@jeanluc Is it possible to view who "liked" reviews yet?

@Nozinan Sorry for the slow replies:

re: 1 minute from now –  does that happen every time you post a comment?

re: Review likes – yes you can see who liked a review below the main review text

@Nozinan Ah I think I spotted the issue, I've updated it so it should say just now

@jeanluc I see it now. Thanks

But it is sad no longer to be able to predict what will happen.

Had you developed that technology further we could have next week's lottery numbers...

Finally!! I haven't been able to access the forum for about two weeks. It has only been text with white background and the graphics all wrong!

@jeanluc , I just want to say that the photos that the site attaches to reviews are great. That's a cool feature. Very classy.

The only "improvement"(?) I can suggest there is to have some ugly photos for bad reviews. :) This one comes to mind: connosr.com/glenfarclas-12-year-old-whisky…

Hey @MadSingleMalt, I quite like that idea. Perhaps if a whisky is scored lower than 60 it unlocks a few special images?

@jeanluc , yeah, that'd fun! Based on what bad reviews often revolve around, maybe some tire fires, burning hospitals, wet cardboard boxes, filthy farm animals, old gym socks, diapers, a cat's litter box, an infected sore—wow, we could go on and on.

(And maybe I should tag @OdysseusUnbound here since I started off by linking to his review.)

@bernicestocksti Welcome on Connosr. I saw your cabinet. Only three bottles but three big scotch. I am guessing you are not a begginer. I hope you will write reviews, we don't often have the opportunity to get the feminine view on whisky and usually women have terrific palate, so I am sure you would bring a lot to the conversation.

@Robert99 I'm guessing that is a fantasy cabinet culled from the internet. I could be wrong, but I think we have here someone with a motive other than contributing to our whisky discussions. Her business is selling essays to cheaters.

@BlueNote Cheater is such a strong word.... it isn't as though she is selling NAS whisky. All she does is sell essays to people who can't think for themselves so that they can get into or graduate from programmes in fields where you have to think for yourself, like medicine.

It's a victimless crime...

@Nozinan Your tongue is stuck in your cheek again. As I said earlier: I hope she's not selling essays to prospective brain or heart surgeons upon whom I may rely at some point in the future.

BTW, interesting letter from a 60 year old family doctor in the Globe today.

@BlueNote Yes, MDs have had some hard times in the press recently. Everyone loves to rag on doctors as too rich or too powerful or too something.... until they are staring at the ceiling in a ER after one of those evil beasts has just saved their lives, or someone comes to their home to help their ailing/infirm, homebound mom, or removes the brain tumour from their 3 1/2 year old son, allowing him to live a normal life instead of being wracked by seizures forever as he would have been only 50 years ago... (last one is a true story, except the dad wasn't badmouthing docs).

And don't forget that doctor who was assessing a potential living organ donor and asked him how do you stay so thin? The reply..."Wiser's".

That one has nothing to do with anything but I had to bring it back to whisky...

@Nozinan Working with criminals, I learned to accept people, or acting as if your accepting them, in order to influence them.

@BlueNote I was playing along. It is a big advantage sometime to look naive.

@Robert99 Of course. I didn't think you would be taken in so easily. I think they call that a Mr. Big sting. I'm sure you and I would kill for a three bottle cabinet like that.

@Robert99 Training in Kingston I met a lot of inmates myself. I learned a lot from them, and some are my most memorable patients from that time.

The most important thing I learned from one guy was thatmit's possible to identify an ORAL B toothbrush in someon's stomach from an x-ray.

That's right, I nailed it. The brand itself, right down to the blue indicator bristles.

I should have been a radiologist. I woulda had class...I coulda been a contender...

@Nozinan Those electric tooth brushes just don't make good shivs. And that's "contendah."

@BlueNote Too bad I wasn't able to like your last comment more than once.

@Nozinan I heard all kind of stories. You were lucky it was only a toothbrush.

@Nozinan The last story I have of this kind was about a guy who tried to enter a large cellular phone. When asked why he didn't pick a smaller phone like a floppy, his simple answer was : "I wasn't the guy choosing the phone". I think he was only happy it was not a Galaxy note plus.

@Robert99 A toothbrush, several plastic spoons and knives, a toothpaste cap, and coffee stir sticks. After they were all removed I took a picture of the yield...

@Nozinan The big issue is not the size of the warehouse, it's the size of the door.

@Robert99 Good that you're bringing this back to whisky...

@jeanluc Lately I wrote a review of an IB. I have used the canvas and filled all the boxes, distillery, bottlers, etc. Now, I realize that the bottler does not appear in the whisky's name. So I would suggest that the bottler can be added to the name in the header when it's not an OB, that way the confusion between an OB and an IB of the same age would be avoid. Thanks.

Is the "Top Rated" based on reviews (more heavily weighed) as well as cabinet ratings? Then with the total number of reviews/ratings factored in as well?

I for one am loving the new timeline functionality! Great way to catch up with the discussions