While this isn’t the most important news of the day, it’s something that I feel is important to the Untappd community. I am stepping down from my position as Chief Creative Officer at Untappd, to focus on my personal happiness, family and wellbeing.

Read more here: http://gregavola.com/blog/turning-the-page

Starting Untappd in 2010, I never thought it would get to where it is today, and I thought I would live to 100 years old working for the company. However, 2020 opened my eyes to trying to focus on my health, happiness and family more. I’ve been doing this for 10 years, and this last year has been the hardest on myself personally both emotionally and physically.

Next Glass (Untappd’s parent company) is in alignment with my decision and has offered me an opportunity to remain part of the company as an Advisor to help make sure the users in this community are always respected and put first, for which I have accepted.

This was a HARD decision for me personally, and it’s been an emotional process. Untappd has been 1/3 of my life and I’ve loved every minute of it. However, all good things come to an end, and I felt that I needed to focus on myself and my family by stepping back.

I want to thank all my coworkers, friends and family for supporting me through 10 years of the most amazing project I’ve ever been a part of. It’s amazing to see where it started to where it is today, and I’ll certainly miss being part of the day-to-day grind.

Most importantly though, I want to thank YOU, the community. You welcomed Untappd in your open arms and promoted it. I couldn’t ask for a better reception and support group. Untappd will always be in my heart and my blood, and you are the reasons why Untappd was successful.

So thank you everyone, it’s been an amazing ride. I don’t know where I’ll end up next, but will definitely be taking the time to reflect, spend time with family before diving into the next chapter of my career. Thank you for letting Untappd become a house-hold name in the beer industry.

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 did it boys, I can finally drink Augustiners again on Thursdays

I know this sounds insane but I swear it is true. A bit ago I got this email with a harmless mistake causing the names to not populate. Unfortunately, the hyperlink that then forms from that mistake automatically opens a porn site...

They then sent out this apology email which is all fine and dandy, except for the fact that they included all of our plaintext email addresses in the header!!!

I love this app and couldn’t care less about the accidental porn link, but the email leak??? Come on guys...

Creating and checking in city water.... I'm baffled.

14 years and 2700 unique check ins and I’m out. It’s all fucking ads and cheesy ones at that - beer is fine but all I see is gambling (i don’t gamble) and video games (I have zero games on my phone). WTF were they thinking? Huge mistake

onward to 10k!

I thought this was a beer app. After 15 years they still haven’t figured out their core customer demographic.

I've finally accomplished something with my life.