MeltingFood Releases

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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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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 :(

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May 09

MeltingFood – Arborvitae Release

We’re up to the fourth minor release of MeltingFood (and the second in a week if you’re keeping count). It’s all part of the more rapid 1-2 week release schedule – or 4 days in this case.

We apologise that the last release was substantially broken in Internet Explorer (now fixed).

Highlights

  • Recipes can now be seen by everyone (no sign-up required).
  • The recipe layout has been re-jigged to fit things in a little more snugly (hopefully less scrolling needed when your hands are covered in dinner).
  • For Internet Explorer, the broken javascript is fixed and buttons should look a little prettier too.
  • Opt out of email has been added – so we don’t disturb anyone.
  • The recipe list and noise pages are slightly faster (cleaned-up some inefficient code).

There are also a couple of other tweaks, like using your whole name on your recipes – just to make sure people know who to thank.

Progress

We’ve got about 10 current users (accessed in the last month)! Yes that includes us, so back to 8 really ;)

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May 09

MeltingFood – Apricot Release

Just finished off the third minor release of MeltingFood, the recipe / food sharing website for the new millennium (the new millennium line is still good ’til the half way point – 491 years to go, then we switch from ‘new’ to ‘next’).

Highlights

  • When searching for your friends, auto-complete drops down to help you.
  • See friends of your friends (if your friends have any friends you can now see a list of those friends – clear?).
  • More ajax-y responses (for the non-geek, when you delete your recipes, add friends or reject friends, you won’t have to wait for the page to reload).
  • Slightly smaller pages (for the geeks, javascript framework change from Prototype to jQuery – more conducive to removing in-line js and forms).
  • Google Analytics – so we get some idea of how people are coming to / using the site.
  • Rough business plan.

There’s also a bunch of other minor bug fixes and improvements.

Progress

We’ve got about 8 current users (accessed in the last month)! And about 45 total users referred. This is without even resorting to nagging everyone we know (we’re keeping half in reserve ;p). Based on the business plan, this means we’re at 0.008% of the target (100k unique people per month :)).

But keep your eyes open in the next month… we’re eating our words and going public!