[MaBell]

I came across a great site this morning that lists local bars and restaurants and their happy hours. The site, Urbandrinks.com also lists CURRENT happy hours - so imagine my surprise that there actually is a happy hour going on at 8:00am at the Cheerful Tortoise.

At this point the site focuses primarily on downtown but it looks like they're planning on adding NW and the Pearl. Hopefully they'll add the east side as well.

[Bryan]

Hi, I'm the programmer for UrbanDrinks.com and just wanted to say that I'm glad you found the site useful, and that we do currently have NW and Pearl happy hour info.. but maybe it wasn't very obvious. You can choose a neighborhood right below the day tab menu. We'll soon be adding East Portland and Old Town as well. Feel free to write reviews for your favorite restaurants & bars. We'll be adding ratings and a create-your-own-pub-crawl feature soon, as well as letting users submit happy hour info.

Regards,
Bryan

MaBell, on Nov 7 2006, 08:30 AM, said:

I came across a great site this morning that lists local bars and restaurants and their happy hours. The site, UrbanDrinks.com also lists CURRENT happy hours - so imagine my surprise that there actually is a happy hour going on at 8:00am at the Cheerful Tortoise.

At this point the site focuses primarily on downtown but it looks like they're planning on adding NW and the Pearl. Hopefully they'll add the east side as well.

[Angelhair]

Welcome to the site Bryan and cheers!

[MaBell]

Bryan, on Nov 8 2006, 08:01 AM, said:

Hi, I'm the programmer for UrbanDrinks.com and just wanted to say that I'm glad you found the site useful, and that we do currently have NW and Pearl happy hour info.. but maybe it wasn't very obvious. You can choose a neighborhood right below the day tab menu. We'll soon be adding East Portland and Old Town as well. Feel free to write reviews for your favorite restaurants & bars. We'll be adding ratings and a create-your-own-pub-crawl feature soon, as well as letting users submit happy hour info.

Regards,
Bryan

Thanks for the update Bryan! I'll look forward to the addition of Eastside locations and the pub crawl feature.

One item I think could be extremely helpful is a date stamp for when information is added for an establishment.

[BaconLuv]

The mapping and comments features look kind of like this one: http://www.unthirsty.com/index.php

[Bryan]

That's a good idea.. I actually record the last update anyway, so I might as well display it. I also want to add a couple of checkboxes to let users flag the place to let us know if the happy hour info is out of date or to verify that it is correct.

Thanks for the suggestion, and feel free to send me any other feedback.. (which reminds me.. I need to add a general feedback form to the site..)

MaBell, on Nov 8 2006, 08:58 AM, said:

Thanks for the update Bryan! I'll look forward to the addition of Eastside locations and the pub crawl feature.

One item I think could be extremely helpful is a date stamp for when information is added for an establishment.

[Bryan]

Just letting everyone know that I've added some new features to UrbanDrinks.com:

• You can write reviews for places
  
• You can now tag places with keywords
  
• There's now a search tool
  
• We've added quite a few East Portland places and are adding more very soon.

Regards,
Bryan

[slobhan]

Bryan, on Dec 13 2006, 09:50 AM, said:

Just letting everyone know that I've added some new features to UrbanDrinks.com:

• You can write reviews for places
  
• You can now tag places with keywords
  
• There's now a search tool
  
• We've added quite a few East Portland places and are adding more very soon.

Regards,
Bryan

Awesome site, Bryan. I think my quality of life has actually increased thanks to the discovery of this site. Let me explain: I have off every Friday and I always end up drawing a happy hour blank in my excitement. No more!

[Bryan]

Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know that I've just finished adding a "create your own pub crawl' feature on UrbanDrinks.com. You can get there directly at http://urbandrinks.com/crawls

Right now you have to have an account to create a crawl, but I plan to add the ability to create one anonymously. Same with writing reviews. That being said, signing up is easy and I won't spam you or anything.

Speaking of spam, hope you don't mind me posting this update here!

Regards,
Bryan

[Bryan]

Hey everyone,

I'm pleased to announce that we've (finally) added some key features to UrbanDrinks.com.

Most obvious is the ability to easily rate places. It's just a one-click star rating, similar to Amazon's. These ratings are intended to be "overall" ratings, not just a happy hour rating.

We've also added a friend feature so you can create a network like in Facebook or MySpace.

The user profile pages have been revamped as well (check out mine ). If you have an account, you can add me as a friend. You can also search for other members.

If you're a programmer-type, there's also a simple XML version of the member profiles, so you can feed your reviews, ratings, friends, etc. into your own blog if you're so inclined. Just append ".xml" to a member profile page, such as http://urbandrinks.c...eople/bryan.xml


Question for the forum..
We are pondering the idea of adding coffee shops to UrbanDrinks as a separate set of web pages.. you would be able to rate and review places, as well as view them on a Google map of course. What do you think? Would anyone be interested in using this?

Thanks!
Bryan

[chris pez]

hey brian. thanks again for your site and for being so quick on updating your website. i think the rankings can be a good idea. hopefully the shills won't abuse it.

as for coffee shops i have no opinion. i get all the coffee i need at work. sorry.

[Cat Lancaster]

I also really like your site Bryan and have e-mailed the address to many a friend. I have never added any content to it (sorry ) but I go there often when drawing a blank.

Thanks for all the work you're doing to keep the site fresh and up-to-date. It appreciated.

I'm not much of a coffee shop person, so it's not a feature I would use. I think the rest of this town would love it though.

Cat