Firstly, thanks to all those who helped give feedback: Ashnaxx, nomoanalogs and doerdie (as well as others).
You can now create recipes with the actual manufacturer liquids. Unfortunately, current recipes will need to be deleted and re-created by the authors. I will go through and do as many as the "bot" found ones I added.
There is now also a search by flavours system in place, albeit we need to add new flavours to the system for this to function correctly.
Some new things I'm working on:
- Show flavour notes when creating / viewing recipes (such as "Oil Based" or "Tank Cracker")
- Automatically set the flavour to the recommended percentage (where possible) but still allow the author to change this value (of course!)
- Work on the account area to personalise the website to the user (such as desired nig mg across the site)
Please keep the feedback coming!
Looks great! I posted additional feedback on the old thread, but I'll copy it here for visibility to encourage comments and criticism from anyone that wasn't involved before...
> Now if you could allow me to add/remove the flavors that I currently have on hand to my profile, I could search for all recipes I can make with what I already have, right? The search would have to filter out recipes with ingredients I don't have...does that make sense?
> Edit: Here's a post from just today where this would be valuable...I could have just sent this guy to your website! Here's another from a while back too.
> Also, If you want to be exhaustive with all of the flavor options, here's a pretty good list of all suppliers/vendors. I'd especially like to see One On One Flavors and Nature's Flavors organic extracts added, maybe even DIYFlavorShack too. However, I understand that managing the changes that happen across all these product lines can be like trying to hit a moving target, so adding a new supplier could potentially be an on demand affair.
> Maybe you could just provide a link in your "other links" pull down where your users can contact you to request a new supplier, add a new flavor(s), or let you know if one has been discontinued/renamed. They could even facilitate the process...you could ask them to provide a list in a certain format that you can just plug into your database. I'm sure this is really starting to get out in the weeds here, but maybe something to consider in the future.
> I really love the direction your heading and think this can shape up to be the best recipe website around!
Edit 2: Yet another post asking "what can I make with these ingredients"...
OH MY GOD FLAVOR PERCENTAGES.
Half of my bad vapes are bad because I have no clue where to start. I mixed Carmel Cap at 10% TEN!
I also managed to mix spearmint and menthol at 10%
On that note, instead of an average, high, and low percentages, it'd be awesome if (and I know this is asking a ton) if a graph could pop up with the percentages used, and the recipe they were used in on mouseover. that way, I could look for the grouping of juices that use it as a primary, or a backup flavor.
Great site.
I'd like to make a suggestion, and you can take it or leave it, but I know from personal experience, this is a reason a large number of people don't take the time to vote on recipes, or submit.
Adding an option for reddit OAuth2 login, and possibly twitter.
Yes, site accounts are easy to create, and I don't know what it is, but people see an easy, quick, no-other-account-needed-to-use-this-site (and another password) method, and will be much more likely to contribute.
I just don't see much voting going on, and that is something that tells me if I go ahead with a recipe or not, otherwise I'm the only one voting on a recipe, and everyone else is going off of my singular opinion.
This is the case on many websites I use.
I totally agree with your suggestion, and I personally only use various websites because of the ease of registration (such as StackOverflow). I will definitely add this. I have added this to the roadmap. Thanks!
Thank you!
Awesome.
Social media login now added: http://e-juice-recipes.com/login/. It's just FB and Twitter at the mo. I have a growing list of tweaks, so will come back to this to add more in the future. Thanks again for the feedback!
If you don't mind my asking.... What'd you use to build this? PHP/MySQL, Node/mongo, something cooler? lol
I'm a developer by trade, so after using various frameworks:
- Django
- RoR
- Wordpress
- Joomla (WTF)
over the years, I concluded that the best website, if run by myself, should be fully bespoke.
There is no backend, I'm using an amalgamation of Git and Grunt to build this site.
wow, very interesting... no backend at all? you store all the recipes/flavors and that in flat files? What about the user info / authentication and stuff? Am I missing something?
Sorry, my bad... I am using a MySQL DB to store the dynamic data. I have written a script to pull, merge and re-upload this data to make it flat, cached and heavily encrypted a few times a day (as this leaves just minimal requests to the DB for the recent live data). I don't have much need for a "backend" because let's face it, a backend is just a pretty interface for a database. Future "mod" tools will be available within their respective account areas in the future.
Beautiful site man. I love it. Maybe a cool idea would be a "Similar Recipe" option. If a recipe shares something like 75% of the flavors to another recipe it would show under that option. Just an idea. Keep up the good work buddy.
I like this. Added to the roadmap!
I would like to be able to sort a list of flavors by 'most used' - listing the most popular flavors across various mixes. That way I could suss out what some of the better / more universal flavors are that people like. Keep making big flavor buys, but a lot of it tastes synthetic, and not very good... somehow the delicious flavor of commercial juice keeps eluding me!
Well, took a few minutes and refreshed my recipes on the site, and other than a missing flavor, I like what I'm seeing mostly.
I'd like to see the pg/VG distinction we see on other sites on here, though. I mix at 30/70, my nic is in VG, and I have both VG and pg on hand raw. For most of my recipes my non - nicotine portion is some VG and some pg, depending on the flavor total. So when I sit down to mix, I'm still going to be pulling up my current solution to get my mixes right. Anything you can do on that front?
Again, some account level settings would be awesome. My Nicotine base, My Flavors, & My PG/VG ratio would be a great start.
I just wanted to give a quick update (which is on the roadmap):
> Thanks for all the feedback (which is still coming in). I am giving the site a thorough overhaul (design-wise), so will incorporate these updates with the new design work. Please keep the recipes coming in!
Didn't want you thinking I'd forgotten you all!