The Bar Towel

Cass wrote: ↑Tue May 23, 2023 9:47 am

Andicus wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 10:50 pm No word from Greg Clow? I see him on twitter.

What about Joey Capps, Dan-D-Man, Beer Kitten?

Would be great for Perry to stop by, too.

Same with Ken Woods. We don't seem to get Black Oak, locally, these days!

Greg still does a fine job getting the beer news of the day out at Canadian Beer News, but hasn't logged in here in over 5 years. Some of the other early adopters of BT, not sure what they're up to nowadays. I've always thought about Bar Towel like a pub...regulars will come and go over time, some folks just stop in once in a while.

Cass wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 12:48 pm

Cass wrote: ↑Tue May 23, 2023 9:47 am

Andicus wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 10:50 pm No word from Greg Clow? I see him on twitter.

What about Joey Capps, Dan-D-Man, Beer Kitten?

Would be great for Perry to stop by, too.

Same with Ken Woods. We don't seem to get Black Oak, locally, these days!

Greg still does a fine job getting the beer news of the day out at Canadian Beer News, but hasn't logged in here in over 5 years. Some of the other early adopters of BT, not sure what they're up to nowadays. I've always thought about Bar Towel like a pub...regulars will come and go over time, some folks just stop in once in a while.

Greg's closing up Canadian Beer News:

https://www.canadianbeernews.com/2023/1 ... beer-news/

Cass wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 10:06 am Newsletter time! I'm not sure in all the years if I ever did a digest style drop about some of the threads. I'll do it from time to time and see if any new (old) folks drop by. For the regulars, any feedback welcomed.

https://share.sender.net/campaigns/6WNT ... bar-towel-

shintriad wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 4:21 pm Wow, had no idea this was still circulating. Very cool! I love the tone and it's very bite-sized and readable. If I were to offer some suggestions:

- In "light" mode, the orange colour of the links is a bit hard to read.
- The CTAs, linking to threads, don't always "read" as buttons. Maybe it should be styled like links? And you may want to indicate (at least in the first link) that it points to a conversation thread on the forum. That said, the links are embedded in the topic summaries, so maybe they're not necessary anyway.
- One of the links ("We're keeping track...") took me to a statssender page with a DNS issue. Probably been fixed since then.
- For the subject, may want to put the date or week number so that the emails aren't threaded.
- May want the sender name to be something like "Cass at Bar Towel" or similar.

Cheers!

Ralphus wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 7:15 pm Thanks for the recent newsletter. I'm back after a long absence.

Cass wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 10:38 pm FWIW, I migrated the forum to a new server in the last couple of days so hopefully it's faster for everyone.

Google's PageSpeed insights gave the site a 99/100 on desktop performance! (I should have checked before, but let's just say it was lower! )

Cass wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 7:54 pm I know it doesn't seem like much, but the activity on the forum thus far in 2024 puts us on pace for the most activity since 2018. Woo!

Keep it up!