Finally got back the new version.
Not quite satisfied with it. They fixed a lot of the errors, but others are still there.
To be fixed:
Video. We have video of a lot of recipes, but they don't play in the app. We used Youtube to host the videos, but they're not playing. I tinkered with the settings on Youtube, i.e. instead of private, changed to unlisted and they still don't play. We have some videos as public but even those don't play in the app. Need to fix that.
Twitter/Facebook. We're not satisfied with how it interacts. We want the ability to customize the text posted for each recipe. I doubt we can do that, but we're working on this. If anybody has any suggestions of a good standard tweet/facebook post for this, please suggest it!
Search. This is a crucial aspect of the app. Right now, there is an extremely rudimentary filter function inside of each of the eight categories. This means you can search for meat or vegetarian inside of that category only. I can't search across all categories. I'd have to go into each category individually. Not a good idea. Also in many recipes we reference another recipe. It would be very difficult to find those if you couldn't search for it using the search function. And some of these recipes have hebrew or arabic names so it'd look like gibberish to someone who isn't used to that. A more robust search function is a must.
The developer said that they can't do that without upsetting the flow of the app and that they'd get to it in the next update after it went live. There won't be another update if we don't get it right now. I don't want to wake up to a wall of critical 1 star reviews on the App Store of customers complaining about the search function so we're going to insist on them improving it significantly.
Right now, I still think we're on track for release by Rosh Hashanah which comes super-early this year.
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