Since we’re pretty much done with assigning short descriptions, we have now replaced the “Area” column on the Restaurant search page with a “Description” column, so you can see what kind of restaurant you’re looking at.
You can still see all the restaurants in a particular region if you use the “region” menu beside the search button.
The RSS feed for the reviews list is live! The feed url is http://www.eat.fi/rss.php . Have at it.
If you click on the blue “Restaurants and ratings” link at the top of eat.fi, you’ll find we have added a reviews list. This means you can see all the latest reviews for all the restaurants in one list. We know the RSS icon is already there but doesn’t work–we’re working on the RSS feed, and hope to have it up soon.
We’re in the process of adding short restaurant descriptions to each restaurant mouseover, so you have a better idea of what you’re looking at. We were considering tags, but decided that most users are still too unfamiliar with the concept to allow for any simple implementation. (We’ve noticed several sites where people have tagged things “I, like, this, thing”, effectively creating four useless categories to clutter up a tag cloud.) But as users get more comfortable with tags, we may use these as a starting point. As with everything else, restaurants may edit these descriptions themselves, free of charge. And the number in blue brackets–(4) in the above example–is the number of comments that restaurant has.
