August 13, 2026
A Warmer Front Door, Entertainment on the Map — and the Age Wall Is Gone
- NEW: Ontario glows with its deals. The homepage now lights up the province with every deal we're tracking — the Golden Horseshoe burns brightest — and the whole scene warmed up to match. The first screen is down to the essentials: what we do, one button, and the fine print at the bottom where it belongs. Scroll for the tour and you'll get a different local spot starring in it each visit.
- NEW: Live music, karaoke and comedy now show up alongside the deals. Entertainment used to be an either/or filter — switching it on hid every deal. Now venues with something on ride along with the deal map by default, with the act's name right on the pin. Not your thing? Turn Entertainment off under What? and it all disappears.
- CHANGED: No more “Enter Site” screen. The age-check wall that used to cover the homepage, the map, and every restaurant page is gone — you land straight on the deals. Clicking Find deals near me is your 19+ confirmation now (it says so right under the button), and restaurant pages carry the 19+ note at the bottom instead of in front of everything. Please keep drinking responsibly — if you or someone you know has a problem with alcohol, ConnexOntario is 1-866-531-2600.
- REMOVED: Written reviews and star ratings. We couldn't maintain them to the standard they deserve, and a stale or hollow rating is worse than none. The signal that stays — and that we can stand behind — is the thumbs on each deal: real people confirming a special was actually running this week. If reviews return, they'll return done properly.
- IMPROVED: Restaurant pages are easier for AI assistants to read. Ask an AI "what's on tonight?" and it can now find live music, trivia, and comedy here — events ship in the machine-readable layer of every restaurant page. Also fixed a stray scrap of code that leaked into the readable page text, and pages for restaurants with no current deals now point you to the nearest deals around instead of dead-ending.
August 10, 2026
A Tidier Dashboard for Restaurant Owners
- CHANGED (restaurant owners): One top bar, not two. The manage dashboard used to stack its own header underneath the site menu. Now your restaurant's name and follower count sit at the top of the section menu on the left — the name still clicks through to your public page — and your dashboard gets that screen space back. Food-truck dashboards got the same cleanup.
- IMPROVED: One ☰ menu on your phone. The dashboard used to show two hamburger buttons that opened different menus. Now there's just one: your dashboard sections first, with the rest of the site (Deals, Cities, My Spots, Help…) folded in below — and your restaurant's name stays in the top bar so you always know which listing you're working on.
July 27, 2026
A Help Centre — Actual Answers, Not a Contact Form
- NEW: 179 answers, split into two. The Help Centre asks who you are first, so people looking for deals never have to scroll past restaurant-owner instructions. Looking for deals? The map and its filters, saving and following spots, deal alerts, sharing, and your account. Run a restaurant? Claiming your listing, posting specials and events, your QR code and printable posters, what your analytics mean, and billing.
- NEW: Search it, or link straight to one answer. Type and the list narrows as you go. Every answer also has its own permanent link, so we can send you to the exact one rather than the top of a long page.
- CHANGED: Help is now in the menu on every page. It replaces the old Contact link up top — every Help page still ends with our support email, so you can always reach a person.
July 11, 2026
New Here? Scroll — the Homepage Shows You Around
- NEW: The homepage is now a guided tour. Scroll down from the landing screen and the live map walks you through what WingBeerSpecials does — every deal on one map, filtering to what's on tonight, following your spots to get pinged when new deals drop, food trucks & festivals, and how restaurants get listed. In a hurry? Find deals near me still jumps straight to the map — the tour only plays if you scroll.
July 2, 2026
Help Keep Deals Accurate — and Find Your Spots Faster
- NEW: Tell us if a deal is still on. Every deal now has a quick 👍 / 👎 on its card — tap 👍 if it's still running, 👎 if it's gone. Once a few people confirm one, its page shows “✓ verified” with the count, so everyone can see it's current. Your taps keep the whole site honest — and you don't need an account.
- NEW: “My Spots” is now in the menu on every page. The deals you save and the places you follow finally have a home in the top bar site-wide — no more hunting for them.
July 1, 2026
Events Are Free Now — And On the Map
- NEW: Find live music, trivia and karaoke on the map. A new Entertainment filter on the deals map shows only the spots with something happening — tap the music-note chip next to the other filters.
- NEW (restaurant owners): Posting events is now free for every claimed restaurant — it's no longer a Featured perk. Add live music, trivia, karaoke or game-day nights on the Events tab in /manage and they show on your page and under the map's Entertainment filter. Claiming your restaurant is free too.
June 18, 2026
Daily Updates From Places You Follow
- NEW: Featured restaurants & food trucks can now send a daily announcement. A place you follow can push one custom message a day — "smoked brisket tonight," "live at the festival until 3 PM," "new menu item" — enough to keep you in the loop, capped at one a day so it never floods your notifications. The automatic alert when they post a new deal is unchanged, and following a spot and getting its alerts are always free.
June 13, 2026
The Map Is the Site Now
- NEW: Restaurant pages reimagined. Every restaurant page is now a living window into the map — browse the week's deals day by day, then tap the map view to dive into everything nearby. Same address, whole new experience.
- NEW: A cinematic homepage. The site opens with a spin of the globe and flies you down into your local deals map. Going straight to /deals (or being signed in) skips the show and lands you right at the map.
- IMPROVED: iPhone install flow. Scan a restaurant's QR, add the app, and it now reopens right on that restaurant to finish turning on deal alerts — no hunting for it again.
- IMPROVED: Hours now sit beside Call & Directions on restaurant pages, and deals show a LIVE NOW badge only while they're genuinely on.
June 9, 2026
See How Many Deals at a Glance
- NEW: Map pins now show a deal count. Zoom in on the map and any spot with more than one matching deal shows the number right on its pin — so you can see at a glance where there's the most to browse. Change the day or type filters and the counts update to match. Zoomed out, the map stays clean and simple, exactly like before.
June 8, 2026
Share a Specific Deal
- NEW: You can now share one specific deal — not just the whole restaurant. Tap the new share icon on any deal (on a restaurant's page, or in the map's deal view) and the link you send previews that exact deal — e.g. "Half Price Wings" — instead of whatever today's first special happens to be. Opening the link jumps straight to that deal.
June 2, 2026
Events on Your Restaurant Page
- NEW (restaurant owners): Featured restaurants can now post events — live music, trivia, karaoke, game-day nights and more. Add them on the new Events tab in /manage (one-off, or set to repeat weekly), and they show on your public page under Today's Events and Upcoming Events — then clear themselves automatically once they're over. Part of the Featured tier.
June 1, 2026
Following, Saving & Map — Fixed
- FIX: The Follow button on restaurant pages and the 🔔 bell on your saved spots were silently doing nothing while you were signed in — you'd tap, and it would quietly switch back. It turned out to affect everyone who was signed in, on every device (not just iPhones, like we first thought). Both work reliably again.
- FIX: Saving a deal now updates everywhere at once. Before, filling a heart in the deal pop-up wouldn't fill the matching pin on the map until you reloaded — the map and the pop-up were each keeping their own separate memory of your saves. They now share one. (Your saves were always stored correctly; it was just the on-screen hearts getting out of sync.)
- FIX: On the map, tapping a Featured restaurant's pop-up card sometimes opened a different restaurant whose pin was sitting hidden underneath the card. The card now always opens the place you actually tapped.
June 1, 2026
Owner Dashboard — Stats Fixed
- FIX (restaurant owners): Starting your 7-day Featured free trial no longer zeroes out your At-a-Glance stats. Pin views and your activity feed used to disappear the moment you upgraded — the numbers were always safe behind the scenes, the dashboard was just reading the wrong field after the switch. They stay put now.
- FIX (restaurant owners): Your "Saves" count on /manage now shows the real number of customers who've saved your restaurant, instead of always showing 0.
May 31, 2026
Smarter Search
- NEW: Search understands a lot more now. Type a kind of food ("wings," "pizza," "sushi"), a street or address, or a few words at once — you'll get matches even when you don't have the exact restaurant name. And if there's nothing close by, the search now widens the area automatically instead of coming back empty.
May 29, 2026
New Owner Tools for Ribstock
- NEW (restaurant owners): A preview before you publish on /manage — see exactly how a deal will look to customers before it goes live, so nothing posts with a typo or a wrong time.
- NEW (restaurant owners): A QR auto-follow toggle — decide whether scanning your table-tent QR offers customers a one-tap "follow this restaurant" prompt. Getting your booth ready for Ribstock weekend (June 19).
May 21, 2026
Faster Map & Deals Feed
- IMPROVED: The live map and deals feed load a lot faster. We changed how deal data loads behind the scenes so each view of the map pulls only a small fraction of the data it used to. Same deals — you just see them quicker, especially on mobile.
- FIX: Fixed a case where the deals list could show "0 deals" after you panned the map away from where you started. It now keeps showing the deals in view.
May 15, 2026
Print Posters for Your QR Code
- NEW (restaurant owners): The QR tab on /manage now ships three poster layouts ready to print and put next to the register — Portrait (8.5×11" for the wall), Half-page tear-off (two per sheet for tables), and a Ribstock '26 booth poster for the festival weekend. Each one can be printed, saved as PDF, or downloaded as PNG directly from the tab. The standalone QR PNG/SVG export is still there for menus, business cards, or anything you want to design yourself.
May 14, 2026
Restaurants Can Now Send Push Announcements
- NEW: If you've tapped the 🔔 to follow a restaurant, they can now push you a message directly — "smoked brisket tonight," "live at the festival until 3 PM," "new menu item." Up to 2 messages per rolling 7 days, rate-limited so it never feels spammy. Auto-notifications when a restaurant posts a new deal (the kind you've already been getting) keep working too. Composer + analytics for restaurant owners are part of the Featured tier; following a restaurant + receiving pushes are free, always.
- FIX: The 🔔 follow bell that was supposed to be next to every Save heart on the deals detail panel was getting hidden on iPhone Safari. It always renders now. Also fixed: adding the app to your home screen from a restaurant page used to pin that one restaurant's page as your "WBS app" instead of the map. Now the app icon always opens the live map regardless of which page you installed from.
May 13, 2026
Restaurant Pages, Redesigned
- NEW: Every restaurant page (
/r/…) got a full redesign — it still leads with that restaurant's specials, hours, and info (that part's what you came for), but now it also shows other deals nearby (tap any one to jump to it), a little map of the area, and a one-tap way into the live deals map. Save the spot or follow it for new-deal alerts, right at the top. Cleaner, faster, and it actually shows you there's a whole map of deals — not just the one place you searched for.
May 12, 2026
Rebuilt "For Restaurants" Page
- NEW: The For Restaurants page got a full redesign — a cleaner walkthrough of how it works, what's free (everything that matters), the branded QR table-tents, the green verified check, and the optional Featured tier — which now leads with its 7-day free trial (cancel anytime, no contracts). Search your restaurant right on the page to see if we've already found it. The restaurant + specials counts update live as our scanner keeps discovering more across Ontario.
May 12, 2026
Deals Feed Polish
- FIX: On some cards in the deals feed, the restaurant name was overlapping the card above it — happened when a place was closing soon AND had a happy-hour deal ending at the same time, which crammed two near-identical countdown badges into one row. Now when a deal's "Ends" countdown is shown, the redundant "Closes" badge is dropped, and the meta row stays on a single line. Cleaner cards, no overlap.
April 26, 2026
Every Restaurant Has a Page Now
- FIX: If you ever searched for a restaurant and landed on a "Restaurant Not Found" page when you were sure the place existed — that's fixed. Around 4,400 restaurant pages on the site were silently 404'ing because specials hadn't been added yet. Now every page loads with the address, hours, and a "Claim this listing" button so the owner can take it over and add their deals.
- IMPROVED: Sitemap now includes those pages too (~8,500 URLs total) so Google can index them. If you search Google for "[restaurant name] specials" you should start seeing direct links to the WBS page over the next few weeks.
April 22, 2026
Save + Follow Everywhere (and a proper My Spots)
- NEW: Bell icon on every deal card — tap 🔔 next to the heart to get notified when that specific deal changes. Save ❤️ remembers the deal; Bell 🔔 subscribes you to updates. Two distinct primitives that never cross-wire.
- NEW: Save + Follow buttons on every restaurant page (
/r/…). Hit a restaurant's page and the [❤️ SAVE] [🔔 FOLLOW] pair sits right above the daily specials. SAVE bookmarks the spot to My Spots; FOLLOW subscribes you to new-deal pushes.
- NEW: QR-scan auto-subscribe. Restaurants at Ribstock (and elsewhere) can print a QR that opens their page with a one-tap "Get notified?" prompt built in — so you can follow a spot in two seconds without hunting for buttons. Coming to booths the weekend of June 19.
- IMPROVED: /saved rebuilt as "My Spots" — one card per restaurant instead of four separate lists. Your heart/bell state shows in the card header; any saved or followed deals at that spot stack below with their full details (days, time window, conditions/fine-print). Sorts by most-recent activity.
- IMPROVED: Saved deals now show the fine print. Previously
/saved only showed title + price; now you see the days, time window, and any conditions ("with drink purchase", "dine-in only"). What actually matters when you're deciding whether to go.
- IMPROVED (iPhone users): If your browser can't do notifications (iOS Safari in regular mode), tapping the bell now opens a clear walk-through modal with 5 steps: Share → Add to Home Screen → Open from home screen → Bell works. No more silent bell taps.
- IMPROVED: Heart + bell buttons on deal cards are bigger and more tappable on mobile. Moved the "Ends 8 PM" countdown up into the meta row to free up space.
- FIX: Bell tap on iPhone "shrinking and getting stuck" was a known WebKit quirk with disabled buttons mid-animation. Replaced with in-flight tracking so buttons stay visually stable throughout the subscribe flow.
- FIX: Restaurant cards on mobile were clipping off the right edge on smaller phones. Meta row now wraps gracefully.
April 21, 2026 · Evening
Landing & Restaurant Page Polish
- IMPROVED: Restaurant pages (
/r/…) now share the same warm aurora + floating particle background as the rest of the site — continuous ambient feel as you move between the landing, your saved spots, and a restaurant's page.
- FIX: Live-now cards on mobile weren't tappable — taps were silently passing through to the background scroll layer. Now they open the restaurant page as expected.
- FIX: Live-now strip was spilling off the edge of the screen on MacBook-class laptops. Card count now adapts to your display: 5 on big desktops, 4 on laptops, 3 on smaller windows, 1 on phones.
April 21, 2026 · Afternoon
Landing Page Redesign
- NEW: Live Right Now strip on the landing page shows actual currently-active deals across Ontario, cycling through with a slide animation every 6 seconds. No geolocation prompt on this page — that still happens on /deals.
- IMPROVED: Tightened the hero copy and moved the legal/data caveats below the buttons where they don't crowd the headline.
- IMPROVED: Stats now use comma formatting (266,801 instead of 266801). Dropped the "km² Covered" stat — wasn't adding much for customers.
- IMPROVED: Restaurant owner CTA reworded from "See How We Help — Free" to the clearer "Get listed free".
April 21, 2026 · Overnight
Saved & Follows, Properly
- NEW: A real Saved page at /saved — “My Spots” showing restaurants you follow and deals you've saved, side-by-side. Single-tap unfollow/unsave on each row. Works without an account.
- IMPROVED: The Follow button on restaurant detail is now a prominent orange button under the name and hours — instead of being squished next to Call/Directions/Share.
- IMPROVED: The icon in the
/deals top bar is now a heart+bell combo with a unified count of everything you've saved or followed.
- FIX: Deal cards were getting stuck in the skeleton state for some users (especially Safari private windows) — three bugs compounded: a deferred-init issue, a geo-denial path that never triggered the feed load, and a leftover variable from a refactor. All three squashed; feed should always populate now.
- FIX: Cool Hand Luke's and similar late-night venues (open past midnight) now correctly show active deals as active instead of “Ended.” The closed-pin logic on the Live map agrees with the restaurant card now.
April 20, 2026 · Midnight
Push Notifications Are Here
- NEW: Follow any restaurant and get a push notification when they post a new deal. Tap the 🔔 button on any restaurant's detail card. Works without an account — same as saving deals.
- NEW: Account page now shows a Subscriptions section (for Featured restaurant owners) with a one-tap Stripe Customer Portal button to cancel or update payment methods.
- NEW: "Resend verification email" link on the sign-in form for anyone who signs up but doesn't see the first email.
- IMPROVED: A restaurant that's open but has no deals active right now shows as a lighter grey pin on the Live map — still signals "you can walk in," just no deal.
- IMPROVED: Signing out now fully clears your session on this device so the next person using the browser starts fresh.
- FIX: Deals that run past midnight (e.g. late-night happy hours at venues that close at 2am) now correctly show as active for their full window instead of flipping to "Ended" at 9pm.
- FIX: Time displays are now 12-hour (4:00 PM) instead of military (16:00).
April 20, 2026 · Late evening
Round of Fixes
- FIX: Deals open past midnight (e.g. "Half Price Apps After 9PM" at Chuck's Roadhouse) no longer show Ended after 9pm. Time logic now handles midnight-spanning windows correctly across the map detail card, deal feed, and "Live Now" filter.
- FIX: Heart icons on deal cards now render as clean SVG hearts. The old Unicode characters were falling back to placeholder boxes on some browsers that looked like a hamburger menu.
- IMPROVED: Dedicated heart-icon button in the
/deals top bar — goes straight to your saved deals, with a count badge. Separates viewing saves from signing in.
- IMPROVED: Slightly larger map pin text on desktop (orange restaurant names + white deal labels). Sub-12px rendering looked blurry on non-retina displays.
April 20, 2026 · Evening
Save Without An Account
- NEW: Heart any deal without signing up. Saved deals persist on this device automatically and appear at /saved. Create an account later and your saves sync across devices in a single silent step — nothing to click.
- NEW: A proper Saved page at
/saved, linked to the saves section of your account
- NEW: Subscriptions card in your account — manage or cancel Featured plans via the Stripe Customer Portal in one tap
- NEW: Notifications foundation shipped under the hood — follow buttons, web push subscribe, and owner announcements arrive in the next release
- IMPROVED: Signing out now fully clears this device (saves cache, subscription reference) so the next user of a shared phone or laptop starts fresh
- PRIVACY: Privacy Policy and Terms updated to cover anonymous device identifiers + push subscription data
April 20, 2026
Polish & Protection
- IMPROVED: Branded "page not found" page for missing URLs — replaces raw technical errors for users arriving from old search results
- SECURITY: Enhanced DNS-layer security with cryptographic signatures (DNSSEC)
- SECURITY: Tightened SSL certificate authorization — only trusted CAs can issue certs for our domain
- SECURITY: Additional origin-server hardening
- NEW: Team email system migrated to Google Workspace with authenticated outbound mail — you'll see
[email protected] on account emails
April 19, 2026 · Evening
Privacy Policy & Terms of Service — Now First-Party Pages
- NEW: Proper Privacy Policy page at
/privacy-policy — Canadian PIPEDA-compliant, lists every third-party service we rely on (Supabase, Stripe, Twilio, Cloudflare, Google), explains your rights (access, correction, deletion, complaint), and makes clear we never sell data or show ads
- NEW: Terms of Service at
/terms-and-conditions — the ground rules for using WBS, owner billing, accuracy disclaimers, and what happens if something goes sideways. Governing law: Ontario, Canada
- NEW: Both pages linked from the landing footer
- PRIVACY: Privacy Policy now explicitly enumerates every external service that touches your data, plus links to each provider's own policy — transparency first
- IMPROVED: Both new pages match the rest of the app — animated aurora + particles background, consistent nav, mobile-responsive
April 19, 2026
City Pages Launch — Ontario-Wide SEO Coverage
- NEW: 71 Ontario city pages live —
/toronto, /brampton, /niagara-falls, and 68 more. Each shows live restaurants with specials, interactive day filter (Mon–Sun), and a direct link to the full map
- NEW: City × day deep links — every city has 7 day-specific pages like
/toronto/friday or /brampton/monday optimized for searches like "friday wing night brampton"
- NEW: All Cities directory at
/cities — browse all 71 cities with restaurant counts + quick day pills, linked from the landing footer
- NEW: City search on the All Cities page — type to filter the list instantly
- NEW: "Open now" badge + hours on every restaurant card — see which spots are currently serving without opening the detail panel
- NEW: Food category filter (Wings, Beer, Food, Happy Hour, Drinks) on every city page
- NEW: Breadcrumbs + nearby restaurants on every restaurant page — "Home › Toronto › Restaurant Name" navigation trail, plus a "More wings & beer specials in Toronto" section with peer suggestions
- NEW: Share button on city pages — native share sheet on mobile, link-copy fallback on desktop
- IMPROVED: City + city×day pages styled to match the
/deals feed exactly — thumbnail-left cards, featured highlighting, specials list with price + title
- IMPROVED: Prominent orange "Open on interactive map" button in each city page hero — funnels Google-arriving users to the full WBS experience
- IMPROVED: Animated aurora + particle background extended to city pages for visual consistency with
/manage and /deals
- IMPROVED: Sitemap expanded from ~3,500 to ~8,500 URLs — Google can now discover all 568 new city + city×day pages plus restaurant slug pages in one pass
- IMPROVED: Structured data (schema.org) on every page — Restaurant + Offer + BreadcrumbList + CollectionPage + ItemList — enables rich snippets, star ratings, and offer previews directly in Google results
- FIX: Prices with ranges like $10–$20 now display correctly. Some had been showing as "$1020" due to Google's new en-dash price format. Normalized + backfilled 60 restaurants
- FIX: Absolute URLs in sitemap.xml and every
rel="canonical" tag — Google now reliably indexes the full site structure
April 17, 2026
Restaurant Owner Dashboard Overhaul
- NEW: Complete redesign of the restaurant & food-truck owner dashboards (
/manage and /manage-truck) — modern left-sidebar layout on desktop, slide-out drawer on mobile, sticky top bar with burger + logo + owner avatar
- NEW: At a Glance cockpit tab as the new landing — time-of-day greeting ("Pint o'clock, Brayden"), 4 hero stat cards (Pin Views, Page Views, Saves, Followers placeholder), Your Pin map preview, deal feed card preview, recent activity feed, recent reviews preview
- NEW: Quick Actions panel with 5 one-tap buttons — add/edit specials, print QR codes, share your page, view as customer, send announcement (coming soon)
- NEW: Announcements tab placeholder — preview of the push-notification composer launching alongside Ribstock Festival in June. Featured owners will be able to send up to 2 custom pushes per week to every customer following their restaurant
- NEW: About tab — explains how WBS works for owners (how your pin shows up, what each tab does, Free vs Featured, how to contact support). Matches the
/for-restaurants marketing aesthetic
- IMPROVED: Upgrade tab redesigned as a proper full-page pitch — hero with $19.99 CAD price, 8 km boost explainer with worked example, 6-benefit grid (flame pin, photo carousel, 15 photos, analytics, badge, thumbnail), "Launching June" teaser for push announcements, plan picker with Monthly/Annual + "1 month free" badge
- IMPROVED: "Info" tab renamed to "Info & Hours"
- IMPROVED: QR Code tab gets a "Where it goes" button that opens the QR's target URL in a new tab — lets owners verify where customers land before printing
- IMPROVED: Backend analytics split "Pageviews" into two distinct metrics — Pin Views (map impressions) and Page Views (detail opens) — so owners can see how many customers spotted them vs actually investigated
- FIX: Slug pages (
/r/:slug) no longer show "No specials today" in the evening. The server was running in UTC, so after ~8 PM Eastern it flipped to tomorrow — hiding active specials during peak QR-scan hours. Fixed to use Ontario local time
- FIX: Owner analytics tab correctly displays pin view counts. Some restaurants were seeing "0 views" despite having hundreds of real views
- FIX:
/manage mobile — tapping the burger no longer zooms the page in (iOS double-tap-to-zoom disabled on tap targets)
- FIX: Sticky top bar stays pinned while scrolling through long tabs (About, Upgrade) on both dashboards
- FIX: Owner's first initial displayed correctly on
/manage (was showing "?" placeholder)
April 16, 2026
Smart FlyTo — The Map Finally Behaves
- FIX: Desktop — the map now smoothly zooms from an overview down to your location when you first open the deal map
- FIX: Mobile Near Me now actually centers on you no matter where the deal feed is positioned. Before, your pin landed near the top of the screen whenever the feed was collapsed
- FIX: Mobile city search — tapping a city lands the pin at the visible center of the map regardless of feed position
- FIX: Mobile deal feed drag — collapsing or expanding the feed now smoothly re-centers the map as it moves
- IMPROVED: The initial zoom-in is more dramatic — a noticeable "swoop" from overview down to your exact location instead of a flat zoom
April 15, 2026 (night)
Data Quality + UX Fixes
- FIX: Map pin labels no longer cut off prices mid-digit. A $17.50 wings deal was showing as "$1" on the pin — now every price displays in full
- IMPROVED: Regenerated 300+ pin labels in a clean "Category + Price" format (e.g. "Wings $17.50")
- IMPROVED: Removed 148 expired seasonal specials — Easter, Valentine's Day, Ramadan, and other date-limited deals that had already passed
- FIX: Your location pin no longer gets hidden behind the deal feed on initial load
- FIX: Geolocation is faster and more reliable for users not on home WiFi
- FIX: Directions / Call / Share / View Page buttons now wrap cleanly to a 2×2 grid on narrow phones instead of overflowing
- FIX: Android Chrome — tapping a city in the location search now correctly pans the map (the keyboard dismiss was cancelling the animation mid-flight)
- FIX: Desktop map centering — your location pin no longer appears shifted too far left
- NEW: Featured restaurants get an 8 km priority boost in the deal feed — they appear as if they're 8 km closer to you than they actually are. Genuinely closer non-featured restaurants still win, keeping the feed useful
- IMPROVED: Desktop deal-feed counter moved from the top bar to above the filters, where it's more contextual
- FIX: Landing page particles now float all the way up through the "How It Works" section on tall phones
- FIX: Restaurant owner QR code on
/manage now scales properly on narrow phones
- FIX: Analytics overhaul — pin views now track every restaurant in your viewport (was capped at 50) and are batched into a single request
- FIX: "Card view" renamed to "deal card click" — now only fires when you actually tap a card, not when it renders in the feed. Previous data was inflated by ~30,000 impressions
- NEW: "Pins Viewed" live counter on the landing page with green pulse dot — updates in real-time as users browse the map
April 15, 2026 (late evening)
Fully Self-Hosted — Zero Third-Party Tracking
- PRIVACY: Map libraries, QR code generator, and authentication SDK are all now served from our own servers — no third-party requests during page load
- PRIVACY: Map label fonts (city and street names) are self-hosted — your viewport is no longer reported to an outside service every time you pan or zoom
- IMPROVED: Food truck event map now uses the same vector map as the rest of the site — the last external tile provider is gone
- PRIVACY: Aside from sign-in, every resource on the site is now served from wingbeerspecials.com — no ads, no cookies, no trackers, no third-party dependencies that can disappear on us
April 15, 2026 (evening)
Location Search — Now Privacy-Proxied
- PRIVACY: City search (the location pill on /deals and the food truck registration page) now goes through our own servers — your IP is no longer shared with outside mapping services on every keystroke
- IMPROVED: Results are cached — common searches like "Toronto" or "Hamilton" return almost instantly
- IMPROVED: Rate-limited and hardened against abuse
April 15, 2026
Faster Page Loads & One Less Third-Party Dependency
- PRIVACY: Font files now served from our own servers instead of Google's CDN — no data sent to Google on every page load
- IMPROVED: First page loads are ~150–400ms faster on mobile — cut out the round-trips to Google's font servers
- IMPROVED: Text appears almost instantly on repeat visits — fonts cached in your browser for a year
April 14-15, 2026 (late night)
Price Display Polish + Tutorial Fix
- FIX: Deal card prices now display clean $ signs everywhere — stray foreign currency symbols from scraped data are cleaned up automatically
- FIX: Swipe-up tutorial popup no longer shows on desktop — only on mobile where swiping actually applies
April 14, 2026 (evening)
Privacy-First Analytics & Consent
- NEW: Self-hosted analytics — no cookies, no personal data, no third-party trackers. All analytics stay on our own servers
- NEW: Privacy Policy updated with a "Site analytics" section explaining exactly what we do and don't collect
- NEW: Privacy Policy agreement checkbox at the age gate before entering the site
- NEW: Privacy Policy agreement checkbox before claiming a restaurant or registering a food truck
April 14, 2026
Major UX Overhaul — Filters, Live Mode, Price Search
- NEW: Complete top bar redesign — clean minimal layout with location pill, search, and profile
- NEW: Filter system built into the deal feed — When, What, Price, and Saved filters with instant apply
- NEW: Price filter — search by Under $5, $5–$10, $10–$15, $15+, or Free/BOGO
- NEW: Live mode — see which restaurants are open right now with a pulsing red indicator. Closed restaurants show as grey dots on the map
- NEW: Browse by day — switch between All, Today, or any day of the week to plan ahead
- NEW: Location search — tap the location pill to search cities or snap back to your location
- NEW: Full-screen search overlay — tap the magnifying glass to search restaurants and deals
- IMPROVED: Filter persistence — your last filters are remembered when you come back
- NEW: Deal feed shows open restaurants first with a "Currently Closed" divider in Live mode
- NEW: Dynamic status bar updates to show exactly what you're browsing
- NEW: First-time tutorial popup on the deals page explaining swipe and filter controls
- IMPROVED: Deal feed starts half-open — filters and cards visible immediately, no swipe required
- IMPROVED: Age verification simplified — single "I am of legal drinking age" button replaces the old date-of-birth form
- IMPROVED: Landscape mode support with a narrower sidebar for phone screens
- IMPROVED: Map pin touch targets enlarged — taps register within 20px of any pin, picking the closest one
- IMPROVED: Long restaurant names on the map now truncate cleanly
- IMPROVED: Smart label collision — shorter labels like "$5" and "BOGO" stay visible when zooming out, longer labels gracefully hide
- NEW (owners): Structured price input — dropdown selector for $ Amount, % Off, BOGO, Free, and custom pricing
- NEW (owners): Restaurant management page redesigned — unified top bar with section dropdown matching the deals page
- NEW (owners): "At a Glance" tab replaces "Listing" — includes readiness checklist, verification status, and a "How it works" explainer
- NEW (owners): "Verify All Specials" button — one tap to verify all specials and earn the green checkmark pin
- NEW (owners): Readiness checklist shows phone, website, and specials verification status with "Fix" links
- NEW (owners): Pin preview updates to green checkmark in real-time when all specials are verified
- NEW: "For Restaurants" page — explains what we do, inline restaurant search, claim flow without login
- FIX: Restaurants with unknown hours no longer show as open at 2am — default to closed when hours are missing
- FIX: 405 beer specials that were showing as "Pints" when they were actually pitchers, buckets, or flights — now use AI-generated labels
- FIX: Restaurant hours now parse correctly for 98% of restaurants (up from 88%)
- FIX: Landing page nav bar no longer overflows on small mobile screens
- FIX: Food truck event creation no longer fails with a server error
- FIX: Removed Harvey's locations — their deals required a separate app to redeem
- FIX: Claim flow — redirect now correctly preserves the restaurant ID through signup
- FIX: Auto-redirect after signup — the account page now sends you straight to the claim flow
- FIX: Map center now offsets above the deal feed so your location pin stays visible
- FIX: Triple location permission prompt eliminated — landing page no longer asks, deals page remembers denial
- FIX: Euro symbols showing instead of dollar signs on 21 restaurant cards — cleaned up non-CAD currency from the source data
- FIX: Detail panel now respects your active day filter — picking Saturday shows Saturday's specials, header says "Saturday Specials" not "Today's Specials"
- IMPROVED: Faster deal feed loading — open-status calculations are cached and concurrent loads are de-duplicated
April 13, 2026
Reviews + QR Codes + Management Overhaul
- NEW: Reviews & Suggestions — leave reviews on any restaurant page, owners can respond publicly
- NEW (owners): Reviews tab on the management dashboard — see and respond to customer reviews
- NEW: QR Code tab on restaurant and food truck management pages — branded QR with the WBS logo + BETA text
- NEW: Download QR as PNG (high-res for print) or SVG (vector for professional printing)
- NEW: Print QR with restaurant name and URL — ready for table tents, menus, and window stickers
- NEW: Deal feed swipeable bottom sheet — collapsed bar, half-screen, full-screen snap points replace the old fixed-height panel
- NEW (owners): Twilio phone verification live — restaurant owners verify via SMS or voice call
- NEW (owners): Live map pin preview on the Listing tab — see exactly how your pin looks on the map
- NEW: Restaurant names appear on the map at street-level zoom alongside deal labels
- NEW: Branded auth emails — professional dark-themed templates for signup, password reset, magic link, and invites
- NEW: "Continue without account" button on the sign-in page
- IMPROVED: Skeleton loading on the deals feed while specials load
- IMPROVED: Aurora + particles background on the account and age verification screens
- IMPROVED: Consistent Sign In / profile avatar across all pages
- IMPROVED: Consistent deal card heights with larger cards for featured restaurants
- IMPROVED: Mobile-friendly tab navigation — dropdown selector on small screens, sticky while scrolling
- IMPROVED: Map pin preview stacks vertically on mobile for better readability
- IMPROVED: Restaurant pages now always use dark mode
- IMPROVED: Text readability across the landing page
- IMPROVED: Social links now point to our real Instagram, Facebook, and X accounts
- IMPROVED: Saved deals link directly to the restaurant page
- FIX: Tapping a deal no longer causes an invisible map zoom — smoother browsing on mobile
- FIX: Hero section no longer shifts on iOS Chrome when the toolbar hides/shows
- FIX: Restaurant thumbnail now shows correctly for owner-uploaded photos
- FIX: Landing page nav bar no longer overflows on small screens — logo, wordmark, and BETA badge scale down to fit
- NEW (admin): Review moderation tools — approve, flag, hide, or delete reviews
- PRIVACY: Security hardening — XSS fixes, input validation, request size limits
April 12, 2026
SEO Restaurant Pages
- NEW: Every restaurant now has its own shareable page at
/r/{name}
- NEW: Rich social sharing — links on WhatsApp, iMessage, and Facebook show restaurant photo, name, and today's deals
- NEW: Native share sheet — tap Share to use your device's built-in sharing (AirDrop, Messages, etc.)
- NEW: "View Page" button in the deal detail panel to open the full restaurant page
- NEW: Restaurant pages show all specials for every day of the week, not just today
- NEW: Hours, address, phone, directions, and embedded map on every restaurant page
- NEW: Today's hours shown prominently with a "View all hours" dropdown for the full week
- NEW: Save deals directly from restaurant pages — heart buttons beside every special
- NEW: "Own This Restaurant" button for unclaimed listings — links straight to the claim flow
- NEW: Sign-in / account icon on restaurant pages — shared session with
/deals
- NEW (owners): "View Page" link on
/manage dashboard
- IMPROVED: Cleaner action buttons in the deal detail panel — consistent outlined style
April 9-10, 2026
Major Update — Food Trucks, Globe View, MapLibre 5
- NEW: 🚚 Food trucks can now register and manage their listing at
/claim
- NEW: Food truck owners can schedule events with location, hours, and entry requirements
- NEW: Interactive map pin drop for setting event locations
- NEW: Dedicated food truck management page with readiness checklist, specials, photos, and analytics
- NEW: Phone verification (SMS/call) for food truck registration — auto-approved after verify
- NEW: Food truck pins on the map (orange truck icon)
- NEW: 🌍 Globe view — zoom out to see the earth as a 3D sphere floating in a starfield
- NEW: Atmospheric fog adds depth as you tilt and pan the map
- NEW: 3D building extrusions — toggle the 3D button to see buildings pop up at street level
- NEW: Verified restaurants show a green checkmark on the map
- NEW: Favorited restaurants show as orange hearts on the map
- NEW: City search — tap "Location" to search any city or use your GPS
- NEW: "Saved" filter button with heart icon to show only your favorited deals
- NEW (owners): Upload photos or take photos with your camera
- NEW (owners): Image carousel on featured restaurant map pins
- NEW (owners): Set your own thumbnail from uploaded photos
- NEW (owners): Upgrade pitch with live carousel preview and plan selector
- NEW: Patch notes — click the BETA badge to see what's new
- IMPROVED: Upgraded map engine to MapLibre 5 for better rendering
- IMPROVED: Restaurant management page — single scroll layout, no more tabs
- IMPROVED: Animated background with aurora glow and floating particles on manage + landing pages
- IMPROVED: Smart day filter — "Today" shows live deals, pick a specific day to plan ahead
- IMPROVED: "Right Now" merged into the day filter — cleaner top bar, fewer buttons
- IMPROVED: Map remembers your position when browsing deals
- IMPROVED: Smarter sign-in — if your email isn't registered, auto-starts account creation with your info pre-filled
- IMPROVED: Pins scale with zoom — tiny at wide view, full size when zoomed in
- IMPROVED: Restaurant hours collapsed to one line with a dropdown for the full week
- IMPROVED: Location search works on mobile with a full-width dropdown
- FIX: ALL 2,200+ restaurants now visible at once — see the entire Golden Horseshoe when you zoom out
- FIX: Smoother panning — map caches loaded pins and pre-loads beyond the viewport, no more pop-in
- FIX: Deal feed updates as you pan (shows deals in your current viewport)
- FIX: Deal feed limited to nearest 50 cards for snappy scrolling (all pins still on map)
- FIX: Mobile search box no longer cuts off placeholder text
- FIX: Featured pin carousel no longer cycles through blank slides when only 1 image exists
- FIX: Featured pins no longer drift off their map location while panning
- FIX: User location red dot no longer drifts while panning
- FIX: Day-of-week dropdown no longer shows orange text on orange background
- FIX: Detail panel side pill no longer flickers on Chrome or disappears on Safari
- FIX: Closing a deal card now returns the map to your previous browse position
- FIX: Sign In button no longer wraps to 2 lines on narrow screens
- FIX: Saving a deal no longer prompts sign-in when you're already signed in
- FIX: Favorites no longer cause all other map pins to disappear
April 1-2, 2026
Deals Explosion
- NEW: 9,000+ deals now live across 2,200+ restaurants
- NEW: Full menu analysis of Ontario restaurants completed — thousands of new specials extracted and live on the map
- IMPROVED: Deal label accuracy on map pins
March 29-31, 2026
Accounts & Claiming
- NEW: Sign in with email or Google to save your favorite deals
- NEW: Restaurant owners can claim their listing
- NEW: Featured restaurant subscriptions — flame pin + analytics
- NEW: Support ticket system for bug reports
March 25-28, 2026
Launch
- NEW: WingBeerSpecials goes live at
beta.wingbeerspecials.com
- NEW: Interactive map with restaurant pins and deal labels
- NEW: Filter by day, time, and food category
- NEW: Restaurant search by name
- NEW: Mobile-optimized with touch gestures
