I wanted to share some thoughts on the recent homepage/UI update and see if others are feeling the same way. I attached the old UI image for reference to show the difference. The second images the old UI isn't my screenshot.

​To put it simply: the new layout feels like Untappd took a desktop website and just shrunk it down to fit a phone screen.

​Instead of feeling like a clean, touch-friendly native app designed for quick check-ins, the new UI uses desktop-first design patterns that make the mobile experience feel cluttered and frustrating:

​Horizontal Carousels Everywhere: Instead of clean, vertical lists that are natural to scroll through with a thumb, almost every section (Nearby Places, Trending Places, Badges, Shop items) is packed into horizontal side-scrolling carousels.

​Desktop-Style Navigation Header: Placing a long horizontal text menu (Places | Events | Shop | Badges | Drinks | Producers) right at the top mimics a desktop web banner rather than a streamlined mobile menu.

​Truncated Text & Cramped Cards: Because multi-column web-style cards are squeezed onto a mobile display, place names, addresses, and details get cut off mid-sentence with heavy text truncation.

​Burying Core Mobile Features: The old UI had a prominent search bar and quick-action buttons right front and center for fast logging. The new update buries these features in favor of trying to show previews of everything (shop merch, badges, places) all on one wall of content.

​It feels like a unified codebase/web-wrapper update designed for desktop efficiency rather than a mobile-first user experience.

​Has anyone else noticed this shift, or do you prefer the new dense layout over the old vertical list design? The app doesn't feel like an app anymore. The new app UI doesn't give the UI time to breathe. Before the old UI let the text breathe and I felt like it was fine having to scroll down to reach certain features. I just feel like the new UI just feels like a website shrunk down to fit the app. Apps are supposed to look different from their desktop website counterpart they're supposed to look like an app not a copy and paste of a website. For example Deviantart when Deviantart had an app it's app UI looked totally different from their website every page within Deviantart's app was different their website.

I’m trying not to knee-jerk on the 5.0 UI. One thing that would help is if the Community tab didn’t default to All Posts; if I could change it to open on Friends. I haven’t been able to find any way to do this.

I’ve used Untappd since 2011 and have been an Insider since it was offered. While I’m trying not to knee-jerk, I’m seriously questioning the thought process behind this redesign. 🫤

I have just upgraded to the new version. Probably have to get used to it. But I encountered one big issue: the map of the history of venues is not correctly shown. I see less than 0.1 % of all my venues. Does any other insider has the same issue, is the a general bug? Or just happening to me?

What are we thinking about the new version of the app, which now includes millions of wines, hard seltzers, kombuchas and I don’t know what else.
I am worried this is no longer a beer app and soon will be cluttered with drinks I have no interest in.
And Untappd is likely going to dilute its focus on beer and beer fans will become less important to them.
I am not convinced about this move.

Made a trip for some good beer and stuff. Got lucky to get access to things I never expected! And of course checked in on Untappd

What happened ?? My style count dropped. Looks like Untappd eliminated all the Non-Alcoholic styles.

No badges for the Mikkeller Beijing Festival? Guess that's good for the liver of anyone badge hunting!

I know I have been critical of Untappd over the last year—and rightly so, F chocolate milk in my beer app—but thank you to the mods who show up here to keep us in the loop.

I guess I assumed the mods were just one step away from being an Untappd employee, but recent posts have brought to light that you guys are really just regular users who can freely edit beers. And I don't mean that in a disrespectful way, it's just easy to think that the mods have more pull than they do, as the face of Untappd for the sub.

Please continue to keep us posted, as the blog remains devoid of any product updates. Let us know if there's anything we can as regular users do to aid in the "tag-ageddon" transition. I appreciate you all.

Since this badge was released I regularly checked to see if anywhere near me sold La Trappe Quadrupel without any luck. Then a couple of days ago I went to one of my regular pubs and found it in the fridge. It is verified (with its own badge) but unusually the owner had forgotten to add it to the menu! Lucky me 😎

I see, that a number of new wine styles have been created. As I created some entries before and had to chose the category other (e.g for Elbling or Gewurztraminer), I am wondering, whether these styles will be somehow changed to the new styles or whether I have to request it for each entry? Thanx a lot for any related comment!

Hi, I’ve suddenly noticed years appearing in the beta version (for some beers when checking them in) that you can click on, just like the flavor profile on my check-in. What is the purpose of this? Does this mean that vintage entries are going to disappear, and there will be just a single entry for each beer, with a different highlighted year attached?

DISCLAIMER:
Although I'm an Untappd moderator, I'm a volunteer, as all M2/M3 moderators are. I'm therefore not in direct contact with the Untappd HQ, and I'm NOT–I repeat–I'm NOT posting this on its behalf. I simply want to share what's happening behind the scenes right now, so the changes don't catch any of you by surprise.

TL;DR: Don't worry if you start to see gluten-free or non-alcoholic legacy drinks being moved into the styles of their alcoholic counterparts. This is intentional. In fact, all entries previously listed under Non-Alcoholic - Festbier / Märzen have already been moved.

Those of you who know about the Untappd Beta Program, or have even joined it, will be aware that Untappd has been working on a new app for several months. There's no official public release date yet, but it seems unlikely that we'll have to wait a few more years.

The new app's development has brought a number of changes aimed at improving the Untappd experience. Even if you're not using the Untappd 5.0 beta on your phone, you may have noticed some of them:

• Many new, non-legacy styles have been added recently, particularly in the Wine style tree.
• A small midyear style correction vote focused on legacy styles has taken place, and its results have been implemented (see this post)
• The tag system (current tags: Gluten-Free, Vegan, Kosher, Organic, Non-Alcoholic, Barrel-Aged, Fresh Hop), which lets users add specific properties to drink entries, has been expanded with new tags (Non-Alcoholic, Gluten Free, and Barrel-Aged).

That last change is what I'd like to talk about in this post.

Until now, tags haven't had much practical effect. You could add them when creating new entries, and they already appear in both the Untappd Web App and the mobile beta, but the database didn't otherwise use that information.

However, the tags weren't introduced with the intention to just display extra information, of course. They were designed to make certain changes possible, and we're now beginning to slowly see those changes take shape.

Yesterday, Untappd's development team shared the information in Slack with the moderators that the Non-Alcoholic legacy styles, along with the Gluten-Free style, will become inactive in the future. A script seems to be ready for deployment that will move entries out of those styles and apply the appropriate Non-Alcoholic or Gluten-Free tag. The script's default destination will be the Other subcategory, so moderators will have some work to do as well, to make sure every entry ends up in its correct style.

In fact, we've already begun moving entries for which a script would be less useful, particularly those in the combined styles Non-Alcoholic - Festbier / Märzen and Non-Alcoholic - Porter / Stout. The few Non-Alcoholic - Festbier / Märzen entries have all been processed successfully by now.

The exact schedule and the full details of Untappd HQ's plans for handling the 40,623 affected entries aren't known yet. However, the development team has already clarified one important point about the badges involved:

The gluten free and low gravity badges will be adjusted to work based on drinks with the gluten-free and non-alcoholic beverage tags instead. The tags will be applied to all the drinks [in question].

Hopefully, the Untappd HQ will make an official announcement soon.

In the meantime, don't worry, Beer happy.

Everything will be fine in the end!

Cheers!

Can’t propose an edit because a drink is locked? Are your requests seemingly stuck in limbo? Is your favorite local place not categorized correctly?

Use this post to request edits to drinks, producers, and places on Untappd.

Note that it may not be possible for every proposal to be applied, but efforts will be made from Untappd and Foursquare moderators to ensure the information on the platform is as accurate as possible. Proposals for Verified Venues must go through Support.

My understanding is no new moderators have been added in at least a year? Obviously there are a lot of changes in the works (and ongoing), but I'm curious as to whether the powers that be feel like they have enough mods currently and are just going to replace as they get lost or if there is any other sense as to what is going on with this?

Thanks

Had a share last night (30 September) and checked in multiple BA beers, in the styles explicitly listed on the badge description--Lambics, Imperial Stouts, Farmhouse, American Wild, etc. But doesn't seem to have awarded the badge for any of them?

Is there a bug with this badge?