What's New - DrinkInTheWeeds

Replaced the generic 'Work in Progress' banner with a clean, subtle Beta badge in the navigation area.
Added subtle, fluid micro-animations (hover lifts and shadows) to drink cards, buttons, and sidebar links to make the app feel more responsive and premium.
Standardised empty states across the app: Favorites, Tried, Wishlist, My Reviews, and Following pages now show a friendly icon and a clear call-to-action button when there's nothing to display yet.
User Profile Stats: Profiles now feature a dashboard showing total drinks tried, reviews written, average rating given, favorites count, and top reviewed brand.
Review Replies: You can now reply directly to other users' reviews, creating a single-level conversation thread under each review. Review authors will receive a notification.
User @Mentions: You can now tag other users in your reviews and replies by typing '@username'. The app autocompletes people you follow, and mentioned users will be notified.

User-added drinks: the drink detail page now shows a violet border and 'User added' badge for community-submitted drinks, visible to all visitors (not just signed-in members).
Semantic color palette: Favorite (ruby red), Reviews (gold/amber), Wishlist (sky blue), Tried (emerald green), and User Added (violet) now each have a consistent colour used everywhere — defined in one place so future retheming is a single change.
Signed-out users can now see which actions require an account: buttons for Favorite, Tried, Wishlist, Add Review, thumbs up/down, and Report are shown in grey with a 'Please sign in to use' tooltip instead of being hidden or coloured.
Bug fix: user-added drink cards on the home page and drink detail page were showing the wrong border colour (gold instead of violet) due to a browser CSS cache issue — fixed by giving every stylesheet its own cache-busting version hash.
Comprehensive color system consolidation: 140+ hardcoded color values across CSS and CSHTML files have been replaced with centralized CSS variables. The system now includes complete palette definitions (Primary, Neutral, Success, Accent), semantic categories (Favorite/Reviews/Wishlist/Tried/User Added), alert/status colors, and overlay system. This enables single-point theme maintenance and makes future color changes trivial.
Color audit report: generated detailed analysis of all colors in use across the codebase (color-audit-report.html), documenting every hardcoded value, its location, and recommended variable mapping.
Added robots.txt.
More consistent back/forward buttons
Add Keep Me Logged In functionality

Sort by rating: DrinkList and Advanced Search now support sorting by average star rating (high→low and low→high).
Sidebar sort: quick-search in the sidebar now has a sort selector (Name / Most Reviewed / Best Rated).
Most Reviewed section: the Home menu now shows a row of the 6 most-reviewed drinks.
Hemp Beverage Alliance: added clickable partner logo to the landing page, Home menu, and footer.
Location data on reviews: the Add Review form now has an optional section to record the store name, zip code, and price paid.
Add-to-list location: when adding a drink to Favorites, Tried, or Wishlist you can now optionally save the store and zip code where you found it.
Advanced Search: results now load continuously as you scroll (infinite scroll), replacing the previous Previous / Next pagination.
Bug fix: Facebook logo in the footer was invisible (white on white background) — now shows the correct blue logo.
Bug fix: sidebar sort dropdown options were unreadable (white text on white) — fixed with a dark background.
Bug fix: Drink Finder search was not returning results due to a JSON response format mismatch.

Branding: updated to a new transparent DIW logo across the site header, landing page, and menu.
Landing page: 'Infused & Informed' tagline styling simplified and fonts standardised site-wide.
Bug fix: fixed a layout issue on the main drink grid.
Bug fix: tag editing on the drink detail page was intermittently failing.

User search: find other members by username or display name.
Notifications: in-app notification bell shows activity on drinks and reviews you follow.
Badges: member profiles now display achievement badges.
Back / Forward navigation: drink detail and review pages now have browser-style back / forward controls.
All Reviews: the global reviews list now uses infinite scroll — no more page buttons.

Drink cards and detail pages: image slots standardised — consistent size and aspect ratio everywhere.
Profile page: layout and avatar display improved.
UPC scanner: multi-pack barcodes now correctly resolve to the single-serve drink.
Offline support: the app now works in a limited read-only mode when there is no network connection (PWA service worker).
Bug fix: 'Photo coming soon' placeholder logic overhauled — no more broken image slots.

Release Notes: Added JSON-driven What's New page — new entries auto-display newest-first.
Add Drink form: Restructured with always-visible Required Fields section (Name, Drink Type, THC, CBD, Size, Flavor, Can photo) and collapsed Optional sections.
Bug fix: 'Photo coming soon' placeholder now shows the DIW logo and text on the Drinks Menu.
Bug fix: Fixed 'window.drinkImgError is not a function' JS crash by adding an early stub in the page head.
Bug fix: Fixed email confirmation and password reset links — styled button + plain-text copy/paste fallback.
Bug fix: DrinkDetails logo placeholder now fits the carousel frame correctly.

Photo placeholder: replaced generic placeholder image with DIW logo and 'Photo coming soon' text on drink cards and detail page.
Navigation: Added Feedback and What's New links to the sidebar menu.
UPC codes: Removed UPC code fields from all public drink pages.
Email: Fixed verification and password-reset link encoding.
Site banner: Added dismissible 'work in progress' amber banner shown each session.
Drink detail page: Added click-to-enlarge lightbox for carousel images.

Reviews: Existing review images shown when editing and on review lists.
Added a What's New page with versioning.