OK, so I managed to reset my password, looked around the forum, and see absolutely nothing that makes me want to look at it again. Your mileage may vary.
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Seems much worse. You can no longer sort search results as you once could. For instance, if a search returns multiple items you use to be able to click any of the column headings (Reviews, Avg. Rating, etc.) and it would sort based on that column. Now it sorts by Reviews (total count) and you can't sort by anything else. So apparently they downgraded the site.
the only reason I go there is to find out what certain aromatics are supposed to taste like. You know the ones that describe themselves as delightfully aromatic. Didn't know delight had an aroma.
Well it worked for me the other day but no longer. (Simply as a viewer, not a re-viewer.)
I went there again just now, had a glitch, retyped the web address and started over. The home page now has no prominence regarding the topic of "tobacco reviews"... none.
"Check out our forum"
"Check out our poll"
"Check out our archives"
"Check out our blog"
ETC.
"Tobacco Reviews"? Oh, yeah... see that tiny little verbiage at the top? Tobacco Search. No longer prominent. No longer the focus of the site? Aaaaannnd - no longer functional.
I'm definitely not a fan of joining the complaining mob, but I was VERY HAPPY with what I could find before.
But I'll complain now because I'm participating in the box pass, and when I encounter a bunch of new-to-me blends (as I'll soon do) that was my main source of research. I go there (went there) basically EVERY DAY to read about blends that I'd seen mentioned.
I guess I'm acknowledging that while it may not have done much for others, for me, at this stage in my game, it was a frequently utilized resource that I'm currently missing.
In the meantime, is there another site that could provide me with legitimate blend info? I'm gonna get a box pretty soon.................
I went there again just now, had a glitch, retyped the web address and started over. The home page now has no prominence regarding the topic of "tobacco reviews"... none.
"Check out our forum"
"Check out our poll"
"Check out our archives"
"Check out our blog"
ETC.
"Tobacco Reviews"? Oh, yeah... see that tiny little verbiage at the top? Tobacco Search. No longer prominent. No longer the focus of the site? Aaaaannnd - no longer functional.
I'm definitely not a fan of joining the complaining mob, but I was VERY HAPPY with what I could find before.
But I'll complain now because I'm participating in the box pass, and when I encounter a bunch of new-to-me blends (as I'll soon do) that was my main source of research. I go there (went there) basically EVERY DAY to read about blends that I'd seen mentioned.
I guess I'm acknowledging that while it may not have done much for others, for me, at this stage in my game, it was a frequently utilized resource that I'm currently missing.
In the meantime, is there another site that could provide me with legitimate blend info? I'm gonna get a box pretty soon.................
If at all possible the site is actually now regressing.
The review portion of "tobacco reviews" is completely broken
"tr_page_search error"
The review portion of "tobacco reviews" is completely broken
"tr_page_search error"
We can beat a dead horse about TR, but they’ll eventually get it worked out. My take on it is that the only reason to go there are the reviews. And those have been hobbled by the anonymous nature of many of the entries, and the fact that any review older than a few years is of marginal value, as manufacturers change blend contents and quality.
"Working" is a relative term.
Until I can edit my own posts, I've lost my main use case for the website.
Until I can edit my own posts, I've lost my main use case for the website.
I hope you're right about them eventually getting it working, but there are no guarantees. MacB may be many things, but web development is clearly brand new territory for the company. It's not that they are doing a bad job, it's that they didn't even know the questions to ask to ascertain whether or not their rollout would be successful.
My main use case is looking at my own reviews and edit them as I go through jars. Could take weeks, but often it's months or years. Then I look at other reviews to see if I can pick out the nuances, or just be entertained. But without the ability to own and edit my own reviews, the site is neutered for me.
Virtually every time I hear that a website is being "upgraded," I cringe in dread of the inevitable result. TR.com is merely one example of what appears to be an immutable truth of AI run amok.
It's always a regression, always. Without exception. Can one really expect anything better from a race of beings that has been completely assimilated into the iPhone borg?
It's always a regression, always. Without exception. Can one really expect anything better from a race of beings that has been completely assimilated into the iPhone borg?
Enjoying the forum on my iPhone right now! About to switch to CarPlay for the drive out for the first 18 holes I’ve played in a month! Won’t use the phone for mapping - still know the way! Been preoccupied since early June …
“Rise, good sir knight!”
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I was on the site last night trying to sort the reviews of Peterson Flake to show latest first and there was no sorting option at all. Why take away functionality? Who is running this?
What happened to being able to sort reviews by age, and see manufacturers’ blends with tobacco varieties called out?
I haven’t been around long, and don’t like the new site much at all. It had great tools for sorting out/finding blends, now nothing can be found unless you know what you’re looking for to begin with (if that makes any sense).
I haven’t been around long, and don’t like the new site much at all. It had great tools for sorting out/finding blends, now nothing can be found unless you know what you’re looking for to begin with (if that makes any sense).
There was clearly no thought , plan, or qa put into the New version of the site. The rollout has been a flaming dumpster fire from the launch.
I don't think they ever put much thought, planning, or QA in the old version either. Some people still gave it a lot of clicks though. Low input for output, maybe the folks at TR are smarter than we think... Here we are buzzing about it and people are going back and forth checking it and reporting back, maybe even more clicks than before. $uper $mart move with the rede$ign.
The old version may have been on autopilot for years but it actually worked. Had basic sort and searching functions , and never went down.
I know it's crazy right?