July, 2009


26
Jul 09

MeltingFood – Beech Release

Keeping to the schedule, it’s been spot on two weeks since the last MeltingFood Beech release. How can we manage it you wonder? Triangles – sine, cosine all that mathematics stuff – easy really, obvious even. Or you can judge it by the length of the list below (we provided less features – but you get them now).

Highlights

  • Recipe counts – see how many recipes each of your friends have; or for the competitive amongst us, see who has the most.
  • Popularity of each recipe – see how many times have people “grabbed” their own copy of your recipes.
  • Sort recipes – just added something and it’s disappeared to the bottom of the list? No more! Sort by latest and it’ll pop back to the top.

A handful of other little fixes, including: sitemaps, so your recipes will be found by search engines; see the latest recipes from everyone; and, pretty (long) recipe urls on the noise page.

Progress

In the last month we had 9 current users (accessed in the last month). And 51 total users referred. This highlights a continued need for improvement – since this essentially hasn’t moved from our figures in May (8 and 45 respectively).

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12
Jul 09

MeltingFood – Ash Release

Whoosh. That was the sound of the deadlines for the minor 1-2 week MeltingFood releases going by*. However, enough moping as the Ash release of MeltingFood has arrived and it’s for everyone – that’s right, sign-up for all.

Highlights

  • Tell everyone what you’re cooking / eating with Facebook and Twitter updates.
  • Now follow anyone who has good taste (no need for both people to agree to a two-way friendship – ala Twitter).
  • Descriptive (long) URLs so Rox’s Banana Butterscotch Pudding goes from http://meltingfood.com/recipes/397 to http://meltingfood.com/recipes/397-banana-butterscotch-pudding
  • You can now sign yourself up – no need for someone to invite you.

There are also a couple of other tweaks like: not breaking your saved passwords; better input field alignment; no search engine scamming from dodgy links.

Progress

In May we had 16 unique visitors, June 110 – ah, the fun of Google Analytics. You can spend time slicing and dicing segments and achieving nought.

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* – Douglas Adams died so young :(