Coffeeshop Menus

[Lemming]

It is obviously amazing & important to have the archive of old menus and record of old shops that have been lost, and the locations that are outright closed are almost all noted as (closed), but there are a lot of entries too for places that are still open either with other names or even as bars that aren't really marked as such until viewing the page.

I've just done a small upgrade to FBN's site. Most of the changes will be invisible because they were just more tidying up and simplifying behind the scenes. I did make a couple of small cosmetic changes, though, and added a quick and dirty change to achieve what you asked for. A shop can now be shown as:

(now a bar) - based on its current type in the ACD database.
(old name) - based on the presence of a later name in the FBN database.
(closed) - from ACD data.

I haven't checked the results against your list but it should've caught them all.
It won't pick up a shop that has changed name but not been reflected on FBN yet, if there are any such places.

[Lemming]

Right, some more developments on this.

I've created a new index covering both ACD and FBN with filters.

By default, it lists all of the shops in the ACD with the matching pages on FBN where available. There are then three filter buttons at the top to dramatically reduce the length of the list. Hopefully these are self-explanatory but the best bet it to try them to see what the various combinations do.

The list is divided by town and that leads to an annoying feature whereby, if you filter out all of the shops in a town, the name of that town still appears. I might try to fix that with some better code or just put each town on its own page.

Here's the prototype: ACD/FBN Combined Index

Please let me know whether this makes sense.

[Lemming]

p.s. regarding the changes to the main FBN index, I have spotted one shop that has changed name twice since the last menu was submitted. What is now Best Friends Oud-Zuid and previously Basjoe 2, hasn't featured on FBN since it was 't Gierenest, quite a few years ago!

[AzLaker]

Please let me know whether this makes sense.

Yes, it makes sense to me. Thanks again Lemming.

AzLaker