Saturday, March 9, 2013

Urbanspoon Spoonerisms

So I continued with Urbanspoon, just trying to get my 'home' town changed from Hobart to Melbourne. It appears that if you review a restaurant while on a trip, then the restaurant 'home' is considered to be the reviewers 'home' until such time as the reviewer, a) reviews a restaurant in their actual home location, and b) changes their profile to their correct location.

So while I am doing so, I went to check my profile and, yep, the urbanspoon system now thinks I am Michael.



Grrr... I hate badly written software.

Urbanspoon fails basic review

So you go to urbanspoon as a recognised site for peer reviews of restaurants and you would expect to be able to rely on their system.

My first experience is that their backend platform is so unreliable that my newly registered account is cross-linked to another users profile.  Does this mean I can change things as them? Hopefully not, but really raises questions about the reliability of the system.


...and for 'saltyg' if you are looking at this, Hi!