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British playwright Alan Bennett once said, "A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot." At Goodreads, we completely agree. That's why we're excited to announce a new Goodreads app for Facebook Timeline.
Timeline—Facebook's redesigned profile—lets you easily track all of the things that are important to you across time. Goodreads members already share more than 12 million books a month with each other, and now with the Goodreads app for Timeline it's easy to share your books with all your Facebook friends, some of whom may not be Goodreads members—yet!
For book lovers, your Facebook Timeline is incomplete without sharing what you're reading. If you connect your Facebook account to Goodreads, you can share the books you're currently reading, as well as your new reviews, progress updates, and quotes, on your Timeline. It's a great way to share the books you love with everyone—regardless of whether you got the book from your library or you read it on your ereader.
Goodreads for Facebook Timeline displays your progress through the books you read.
The Facebook News Feed and Ticker create serendipity—such as showing you when two of your friends were reading the same article or listening to the same band. Now, with Goodreads for Timeline, you'll learn when two friends are reading the same book at the same time. Who knows, maybe you'll end up starting a new book club.
We also know how important it is to keep track of your reading. Facebook Timeline will help with this by creating interesting statistics on what you've read. The Goodreads summary will show which authors you've read the most each month and year, and also give you a roundup of your monthly books and pages read!
Timeline provides a summary of your monthly reading activity.
Starting today, you can add the books you're reading to your Timeline. In the future, you may be able to go back in time to add all the books from your Goodreads shelves that you've already read, so you can display your favorite books from all the important moments in your life. That would have made Louis L'Amour very happy: "Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you."
Adding Goodreads to your Timeline will give you a yearly report on the books and authors you love.
To add Goodreads to your Timeline click on this button:
Enable Goodreads for Timeline
You can also add Timeline from the apps tab in the "my account" section.
Here at Goodreads, we want to help people read more and discover great books, and we're happy to offer yet another way to do this with Goodreads for Facebook Timeline. As Chad Harbach wrote in his recent bestseller The Art of Fielding, "So much of one's life was spent reading; it made sense not to do it alone."
British playwright Alan Bennett once said, "A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot." At Goodreads, we completely agree. That's why we're excited to announce a new Goodreads app for Facebook Timeline.
Timeline—Facebook's redesigned profile—lets you easily track all of the things that are important to you across time. Goodreads members already share more than 12 million books a month with each other, and now with the Goodreads app for Timeline it's easy to share your books with all your Facebook friends, some of whom may not be Goodreads members—yet!
For book lovers, your Facebook Timeline is incomplete without sharing what you're reading. If you connect your Facebook account to Goodreads, you can share the books you're currently reading, as well as your new reviews, progress updates, and quotes, on your Timeline. It's a great way to share the books you love with everyone—regardless of whether you got the book from your library or you read it on your ereader.
Goodreads for Facebook Timeline displays your progress through the books you read.
The Facebook News Feed and Ticker create serendipity—such as showing you when two of your friends were reading the same article or listening to the same band. Now, with Goodreads for Timeline, you'll learn when two friends are reading the same book at the same time. Who knows, maybe you'll end up starting a new book club.
We also know how important it is to keep track of your reading. Facebook Timeline will help with this by creating interesting statistics on what you've read. The Goodreads summary will show which authors you've read the most each month and year, and also give you a roundup of your monthly books and pages read!
Timeline provides a summary of your monthly reading activity.
Starting today, you can add the books you're reading to your Timeline. In the future, you may be able to go back in time to add all the books from your Goodreads shelves that you've already read, so you can display your favorite books from all the important moments in your life. That would have made Louis L'Amour very happy: "Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you."
Adding Goodreads to your Timeline will give you a yearly report on the books and authors you love.
To add Goodreads to your Timeline click on this button:
You can also add Timeline from the apps tab in the "my account" section.
Here at Goodreads, we want to help people read more and discover great books, and we're happy to offer yet another way to do this with Goodreads for Facebook Timeline. As Chad Harbach wrote in his recent bestseller The Art of Fielding, "So much of one's life was spent reading; it made sense not to do it alone."
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Hi Sandy - do you mean your Timeline or your friends' News Feeds? We don't have control over what shows up in your friends' News Feeds, as that's something completely dependent on Facebook's algorithms. However, if something isn't showing up on your Timeline, that's a problem. Do you see any of the Goodreads updates in your "Activity Log"?
Kara wrote: "Hi Sandy - do you mean your Timeline or your friends' News Feeds? We don't have control over what shows up in your friends' News Feeds, as that's something completely dependent on Facebook's algo..."It doesn't really show up in either place -- my Timeline or my friends' news feeds. If I'm at my Timeline and click on the Goodreads app that I've added, I can get a timeline view of my Goodreads activities, but (ironically!), the book review I wrote immediately after enabling Goodreads for Timeline doesn't appear there! It doesn't show up in my Activity Log.
Sandy: Did you add Goodreads to your Favorites list? On the top of your Timeline, you'll see a couple of boxes: Friends, Photos, Likes, etc. There should be a tiny drop-down to the far right with a number. Click on that, which should cause more boxes to appear. Do you see Goodreads in one of those boxes (ignore the "likes" box)? If not, click the plus sign on an empty box and select "Goodreads".
Then, try adding something to your to-read list to see if it appears in your Activity Log.
Kara wrote: "Hi Wendy - I'd be happy to help troubleshoot. I have a couple of questions for you:1) Do you see any of the "finished" actions in your Activity Log? Or are they not showing up at all?
2) Did y..."
Well I've only finished 1 book since I started the Goodreads timeline (which is not showing up), but no nothing previous to that shows a finished book.
yes, I have a start date of 1/18 and a finish date of 1/19.
Wendy, would you mind trying what I recommended to Sandy in Message 169 (with the Favorites box)?Then, I suggest adding a brand new book to your "read" shelf, setting the "date read" to today, rating the book, then writing a dummy review. This is just to see if it will post over to your Activity Log - you can delete the post from your shelves and from Facebook as soon as we're done testing.
Kara wrote: "Sandy: Did you add Goodreads to your Favorites list? On the top of your Timeline, you'll see a couple of boxes: Friends, Photos, Likes, etc. There should be a tiny drop-down to the far right wit..."
I had already added Goodreads to my favorites on my Timeline. I went back and edited my latest review and saved it. Still no sign of it in my Activity Log. Nor, when I click on the Goodreads in my favorites, does it show up in the timeline of my Goodreads activities. It's like that one Goodreads activity that happened after I enabled Goodreads for Timeline has become completely invisible on FB. But I'm more disappointed/worried about the fact that my reviews no longer seem to post on my friends' news feeds along with my other FB posts. That's not caused by some mysterious FB algorithm -- it's a change in the Goodreads connection to FB. And I'm not happy about it.
I can uccessfully get my GR reading status updates to show in my activity log and also on my timeline using the guidance from all of you - thanks!On question though: why does the Timeline box with the current reading page number NOT show the book description? (The cover image works though.) The example image above seems to indicate it's supposed to work that way, and indeed it would be very helpful to my friends to see the description.
Sandy wrote: "Kara wrote: "Sandy: Did you add Goodreads to your Favorites list? On the top of your Timeline, you'll see a couple of boxes: Friends, Photos, Likes, etc. There should be a tiny drop-down to the ..."
Unfortunately, re-saving an old update won't work. You will need to start completely over with a new update. And to clarify, it is actually Facebook's algorithms that decide what goes into News Feeds. You can read more about it on Facebook's help page here.
Chris wrote: "I can uccessfully get my GR reading status updates to show in my activity log and also on my timeline using the guidance from all of you - thanks!
On question though: why does the Timeline box wit..."
I believe text will only show up underneath the status update if you included text in the status update itself. i.e. if on page 27 you wrote "this scene is exciting!". I'll double-check that for you.
Leo wrote: "I was finally able to get the new Goodreads app to connect to Facebook but I have two questions:..."1) Goodreads should be showing up on your apps page here. It's not on the list?
2) Do you mean the news ticker on the top right? I'll check on that with a developer.
3) This one is kind of tricky. I believe the more you mark "shown on Timeline" in your Activity Log, the more often it will show up in your Goodreads box on its own. We're looking into a more concrete answer for this, and I'll let you know.
Leo, have you tried removing the Facebook integration completely (from both the Goodreads end and the Facebook end), then re-adding it? That would reset the permissions.
Ok, this is so much better and contained than a new entry for every status update or book added. Excellent work guys and Gals!
Leo, I'm so sorry for all the hassle. We are trying to streamline it as much as possible, and are working on help docs that should make all of this more intuitive.If you'd like, we could try it one more time, except that I'll delete the Facebook link from the admin end. That could possibly make a difference.
Kara wrote: "Sandy: Did you add Goodreads to your Favorites list? On the top of your Timeline, you'll see a couple of boxes: Friends, Photos, Likes, etc. There should be a tiny drop-down to the far right wit..."
Did all this... still no luck in getting new updates into facebook... The first three updates showed up but since then none of my updates are showing up on fb (timeline or activity log)
What is to be done??
Riku wrote: "Kara wrote: "Sandy: Did you add Goodreads to your Favorites list? On the top of your Timeline, you'll see a couple of boxes: Friends, Photos, Likes, etc. There should be a tiny drop-down to the ..."
What kind of updates were they?
Kara wrote: "Riku wrote: "Kara wrote: "Sandy: Did you add Goodreads to your Favorites list? On the top of your Timeline, you'll see a couple of boxes: Friends, Photos, Likes, etc. There should be a tiny drop..."
book progress updates on three different books.. with comments... havent tested with book finished updates yet.
In between all the negative comments, I would like to also add that the goodreads app timeline (of whatever I had posted earlier) looks very beautiful stretching back over a long time... loved that.. Just wish the control on posting was in our hand like it was earlier...
Kara wrote: "Wendy, would you mind trying what I recommended to Sandy in Message 169 (with the Favorites box)?Then, I suggest adding a brand new book to your "read" shelf, setting the "date read" to today, ra..."
Okay, that worked. It was already one of my favorites and it said that I added a book and rated it.
I also took one from my to read shelf and rated it, wrote a dummy review, and moved it to read. This also said I had rated a book and showed my stars.
Neither one showed my review.
If this is what it's set up to do right now, I'm content. If it should actually show something more, then any other ideas?
Using the old integration, I was able to complete a book and type a review using the GR "Edit Review" function on the book I was currently reading, and the review would show up on Facebook. Worked perfectly.Using the new integration, despite everything I have tried, I can't make my review show up in my activity log. What is the new way to do this? The key element is getting my review to display in FB. Reading progess DOES display correctly in my activity log and Timeline.
Wendy F wrote: "Kara wrote: "Wendy, would you mind trying what I recommended to Sandy in Message 169 (with the Favorites box)?Then, I suggest adding a brand new book to your "read" shelf, setting the "date rea..."
To be clear, you did add a "date finished", right? To today? For the review to show up, you have to move the book to read, then rate, review, and mark "date read" all on the "edit review" field and post them together. We're working on making this less specific.
Alena wrote: "I enabled it against my better judgement. In my review box it says Facebook enabled. I checked my sharing settings and the review posted to Twitter, but it is nowhere in my Facebook timeline. Not i..."Same here...so frustrated. Hope they figure this out.
Jenn wrote: "Alena wrote: "I enabled it against my better judgement. In my review box it says Facebook enabled. I checked my sharing settings and the review posted to Twitter, but it is nowhere in my Facebook t..."I can work with you to troubleshoot if you like. I just need some more information about your specific problem.
Leo wrote: "Kara wrote: "Leo, I'm so sorry for all the hassle. We are trying to streamline it as much as possible, and are working on help docs that should make all of this more intuitive.
If you'd like, we c..."
I don't think that should cause a problem, but thanks for reporting. I'm going to go ahead and delete the link now. Make sure to completely remove Goodreads on Facebook's end. It might be easier if you email me at support [at] goodreads [dot] com, so we can trade some screenshots (as I don't have access to your Facebook page).
Kara wrote: "Jenn wrote: "Alena wrote: "I enabled it against my better judgement. In my review box it says Facebook enabled. I checked my sharing settings and the review posted to Twitter, but it is nowhere in ..."will a step like this mean that the user loses all data shared through the app to facebook till date?
Riku wrote: "Kara wrote: "Jenn wrote: "Alena wrote: "I enabled it against my better judgement. In my review box it says Facebook enabled. I checked my sharing settings and the review posted to Twitter, but it i..."No, I don't believe so. It just prevents us from posting anything else and removes the app.
Kara wrote: "Wendy F wrote: "Kara wrote: "Wendy, would you mind trying what I recommended to Sandy in Message 169 (with the Favorites box)?Then, I suggest adding a brand new book to your "read" shelf, setting..."
I did exactly that and am unable to get my review and rating to show up in my activity log. Reading progess updates work perfectly so my connection to FB is working.
Kara wrote: "Riku wrote: "Kara wrote: "Jenn wrote: "Alena wrote: "I enabled it against my better judgement. In my review box it says Facebook enabled. I checked my sharing settings and the review posted to Twit..."The last time I had removed an app from facebook, it had also removed all previous published activity through that app. Please confirm that users wont lose al their previous updates with fb comments/likes etc on them before you suggest a step like this...
Riku wrote: "Kara wrote: "Riku wrote: "Kara wrote: "Jenn wrote: "Alena wrote: "I enabled it against my better judgement. In my review box it says Facebook enabled. I checked my sharing settings and the review p..."When I removed the app completely, none of my data was gone.
Kara wrote: "Riku wrote: "Kara wrote: "Riku wrote: "Kara wrote: "Jenn wrote: "Alena wrote: "I enabled it against my better judgement. In my review box it says Facebook enabled. I checked my sharing settings and..."I just want to be absolutely sure... i would rather prefer that no more updates are published than to lose years worth of updates. To remove an app means to also revoke its publishing rights right?
Chris wrote: "Kara wrote: "Wendy F wrote: "Kara wrote: "Wendy, would you mind trying what I recommended to Sandy in Message 169 (with the Favorites box)?Then, I suggest adding a brand new book to your "read" s..."
Maybe try logging out and logging back in through Facebook connect. Then do #2 with a brand new book - put the book on your "read" shelf, then click "edit review". Enter "date finished", rating, and review on the same screen and post them all at once.
Riku wrote: "Kara wrote: "Riku wrote: "Kara wrote: "Riku wrote: "Kara wrote: "Jenn wrote: "Alena wrote: "I enabled it against my better judgement. In my review box it says Facebook enabled. I checked my sharing..."In your case, I wouldn't recommend it, Riku. While Leo's problem might be permissions, yours seem to be fine. If you send me more information about your issue in support [at] goodreads [dot] com, we can continue to troubleshoot the problem.
Kara wrote: "Riku wrote: "Kara wrote: "Riku wrote: "Kara wrote: "Riku wrote: "Kara wrote: "Jenn wrote: "Alena wrote: "I enabled it against my better judgement. In my review box it says Facebook enabled. I check..."sure. I will try once more after half an hour and see... will mail if it still doesnt work.
Jacob wrote: "Adding new functionality is one thing, but now I seem to be missing the option to push a specific review to Facebook. I don't want to spam everything I do to FB. I just want to post certain reviews..."This is what I am looking for. I just want to post certain reviews. Fortunately/unfortunately... nothing is showing up on my Timeline.
Thanks for the update, Leo, and I'm sorry things aren't working for you. I'll let our development team know.
Ok well, I don't have or plan to get Timeline until they force it on us (god I hope not), so now my Facebook doesn't work with GR!? (It says it can't connect to timeline - duh I don't have it)
Tried several times, but it doesn't seem to work for me. "Dislike."
Jay, if you send your individual case to support [at] goodreads [dot] com, we can help you troubleshoot.
In the last two days all of the sudden the regular sync between my Goodreads & facebook accounts no longer auto posts how many pages I've read of my book. I don't have the Timeline profile, and won't be switching till forced. But I'm really upset this old way no longer works! Any way to fix it?
have you guys heard of rockmelt? It too has an app and allows me to share anything through the app... I have complete control over what goes into facebook, how it appears in facebook etc.. and it is going through the filter of an app same as goodreads app.. so if it is facebook problem why it that only goodreads app faces it? The rockmelt app does not seem to face any of the restrictions such as static update header, it appearing based on frequency of interaction etc.. it just plain works smooth... that is why I do not buy this idea of blaming fb.. bigger software firms never rollout a change without a beta change and never force all customers to adopt a change at the same time. It shows the maturity of a company - to accept that things wont work smooth and that everyone will not be satisfied. To assume a change will work and force it on customers is a disaster formula.
I'd like to integrate this with Facebook, but I don't want to get Facebook Timeline...
Leo wrote: "3) I still don't have that extra permission that's shown in Matt's screenshot ("Post to Facebook as me")."Leo, I found out after going through the how-to I'm about to post here in a minute, that I don't get those extra permissions either. Then I found out that I had added the Goodreads app nearly a month ago and the permissions for the app have probably been revised since then to not need those other two that were in my screenshot.
Michael wrote: "I changed over to Timeline just for this Goodreads app. I'm warming up to it but I'm not getting the pretty little graphic like the second or third picture in this news article. instead I get this,..."
Michael, check out step 15 in my how-to that I'm about to post. It should show you how to get those "little graphic" timeline updates to show.
Riku wrote: "bigger software firms never rollout a change without a beta change and never force all customers to adopt a change at the same time."
I can't name on one hand how many "bigger software firms" do exactly that! Facebook does it. Google does it....
I've used Rockmelt before some while back. Isn't it still its own web browser whose sole purpose in life is to connect you to every social media site in existence?
Angie wrote: "I'd like to integrate this with Facebook, but I don't want to get Facebook Timeline..."
The Facebook Timeline is the future of Facebook, apparently. There's no going back to the "old" version of Facebook and the word on the street is that every Facebook user will be using a Timeline by the end of this month, whether they want to or not. :\
Leo wrote: "Riku wrote: "have you guys heard of rockmelt? It too has an app and allows me to share anything through the app... I have complete control over what goes into facebook, how it appears in facebook e..."exactly... goodreads is a wonderful site... but to blame everything on facebook when other apps have got it right is not easy to believe. The whole point of a rollout like this without a beta phase is what amazes me.
Matt wrote: "I can't name on one hand how many "bigger software firms" do exactly that! Facebook does it. Google does it.... When my friend? They never do that. They have a prolonged phase in which they give option to users to use the old method/protocol and gradually phase in the change... Google does it even for a remake of how your inbox looks.. you can go back anytime you want and you have a long window period to get used to it and during that time they work out any chinks. facebook timeline? I have been using it from the day it came out for developers.. and I still have an option to go back to old Facebook layout if i want.
So no big/experienced companies do not do it. Sorry.
"I've used Rockmelt before some while back. Isn't it still its own web browser whose sole purpose in life is to connect you to every social media site in existence?"
No. It connects seamlessly with facebook and twitter and does it really really well. But on top of that it is a wonderful feed reader and a wonderful chromium based browser that can do anything that google chrome does.
In any case, my point was that I interact with facebook almost exclusively through rockmelt and almost never visit the facebook site.. so if an app can give me that kind of control, why is goodreads telling me that their app is so restricted and blaming it entirely on facebook?
For example, goodreads says that what update of mine gets shown up is dependent on fb algorithms if i post through their app... but if i post through rockmelt app, i know i am not depending on any such ambiguities...
spotify is another app that has been pointed out that works very well.
Ok, folks. I thought I would go back to square one and start everything over from scratch to see if I could come up with a nice "how-to" for getting your Goodreads updates posting to your Facebook Timeline. I'll try to explain everything with as much detail as necessary, but if you get stumped with one of the steps, just let me know and by all means, don't hesitate to ask the Goodreads staff for some help as well.**** If you have not yet tried to connect your Goodreads and Facebook accounts prior to reading this how-to, skip to step 5 ****
Step 1:
If you have the Goodreads app installed on Facebook, remove it. If the app is listed in HERE, like so, click the X to the right of the app and confirm removal.
Step 1.5:
Log out of Facebook.
Step 2:
Open another browser window or tab and sign in to your Goodreads account and access the Apps tab in Account Settings.
Step3:
Find the "Facebook connected" app settings box and look for the link that says "disconnect Facebook from your Goodreads account" underneath the "save settings" button. Click this to unlink your Goodreads and Facebook accounts.
Step 4:
Either refresh your browser window, log out of your Goodreads account and back in again, or click another tab in your Account settings and then go back to the Apps tab. Either of those methods should get you to where you need to be next.
Step 5: If you have a pop-up blocker installed, you may get a warning during this next step or maybe even nothing at all. Don't worry, just follow along. On the Apps tab in your Goodreads account settings, you should now see, in the "Facebook connected" configuration box a blue button that says "Add to Timeline". Click this now. If you get a pop-up warning, choose to allow the popup. If you don't get anything at all, refresh the page and hopefully, you'll see the "Add to Timeline" button again. If so, hold down the Shift key on your keyboard and then press the blue button (while still holding the Shift key down). This normally bypasses most pop-up blockers. What we're looking for is a pop-up box asking you to grant permissions to your Facebook account (after submitting your login info).
Step 6: Once you've got the pop-up window showing, and you've submitted your Facebook login information, you should be asked to grant the app it's requested permissions by clicking a blue button labeled "Log In With Facebook". Click this button now.
Step 7: The pop-up should disappear and you should now be looking at your Goodreads account settings page again and the Apps tab. The "Facebook connected" configuration box should now be showing sever configuration checkboxes. Check the ones you want and hit the "Save Settings" button.
Step 8: Go back to your Facebook page.
Step 9: Access your application settings page again by going HERE. You should see the Goodreads app, probably at the top of the list. Look to the right of this app and click the Edit link to access the configuration page for the app. You should see the something similar to the following screenshot.
Step 10: Go back to your Facebook Timeline. Find the button to access your favorites. Look below the lower right corner of your Cover photo. The button has a small arrow and a number to the left of it. Click this and you should then see something similar to the following screenshot.
Step 11: Click on the + sign on one of the blank favorites boxes and you should see the Goodreads app available to add as a favorite. The result should look something like this.
Step 12: Go back to Goodreads and mark a book as read, post a reading status update, or send a book to your 'to-read' list.
Step 13: Go back to Facebook and access your Timeline again. Just above your Favorites list, you should see a button to access your Activity Log. Click this.
Step 14: You should see near the top of the log, your latest update from the Goodreads app, which should be what it was that you did in step 13. If you don't, stop here and send an email, detailing everything you just did step by step, to Goodreads support at support [at] goodreads [dot] com. If you see an update from Goodreads in your Activity Log, continue to the next step.
Step 15: We now want to ensure that your Goodreads Facebook app knows that we want it to show on your Timeline. I'm unsure at this time whether this is a one-time type deal. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. If it's not, then we can blame Facebook. :) To the right of the Goodreads update on your Activity Log, you should see, by default, a small gray circle. Click this and you'll be prompted to choose from "Shown On Timeline", "Allowed On Timeline", or "Hidden From Timeline". We want to select "Shown On Timeline", so click it.
Step 16: Go back to your Timeline. You should now see the Goodreads update listed on your Timeline showing whatever it was that you did on Goodreads in step 13. If you access your Favorites again, and click on the Goodreads favorite, you should see a timeline showing nothing but your Goodreads updates.
I've not tested this with book reviews, adding books to the "to-read" list, marking books as "read", or rating a book, but if you read some of the previous comments on this particular thread, you'll see that some people are having luck getting a few of those to show up for them.
Kara wrote: "Wendy F wrote: "Kara wrote: "Wendy, would you mind trying what I recommended to Sandy in Message 169 (with the Favorites box)?Then, I suggest adding a brand new book to your "read" shelf, setting..."
Yes, I did all that. I moved it to read, rated it, wrote the review, and set the date read to today.
Riku wrote: "For example, goodreads says that what update of mine gets shown up is dependent on fb algorithms if i post through their app... but if i post through rockmelt app, i know i am not depending on any such ambiguities...spotify is another app that has been pointed out that works very well. "
Working off that logic, why not say that the Words With Friends app works very well, the Pulse news app works very well, or the Starbucks app works very well, etc.?? You're assuming since one app works well, every other app should also work well. The problem with comparing the Goodreads app to any other app that "works well" is the Goodreads app does not do the same things as these other apps, so just because they "work well", doesn't mean that the Goodreads app is immediately going to work well also.
And Rockmelt appears to still be exactly what I said it was, a browser designed to interface with every social media site on the Web. I've used it before, so I know what it is. Even so, just because Rockmelt works with Facebook doesn't mean the Goodreads app must work with Facebook just as well. I don't understand this line of thought that if no other apps are having problems updating your Facebook, then the only answer to this Goodreads app problem is that Goodreads is wrong. Regardless of fault, Goodreads has said dozens of times now in half a dozen or more threads that they are working on getting this fixed.
Matt wrote: "Riku wrote: "For example, goodreads says that what update of mine gets shown up is dependent on fb algorithms if i post through their app... but if i post through rockmelt app, i know i am not depe..."You are not getting the logic... these apps do the same things that goodreads app is not able to do. Please do not use nonsensical examples which I neither used nor can be applicable to what I said.
PS. Rockmelt interacts with two social media sites, fb and twitter, same as goodreads. I like your penchant for elaborate hyperbole to make a point.
I wish there was an option to post when I finish/rate a book to my newsfeed - currently, it seems to only show up on the timeline. As it is, I doubt my friends will see most of my updates now.I also really wish it still said what I rated a book, as it did before, not just that I rated it.
I haven't got it working yet, but can I just say I am really HAPPY to have this! I liked how it was before but this new way sounds better.If my friends feel like I am spamming them, they have control over their own FB settings and can hide GR updates - they are adults.
Every time social media add new features, so many people get up in arms and post complaints that they want it the old way, then the new way becomes the old way and they miss THAT when it evolves again. None of this is compulsory, people! If you want total control over your content, then blog your book reviews and don't use sites like GR or FB if you are concerned about privacy. Me, I like sharing all my interests on FB and mixing it up, because it exposes friends to NEW things they may never have looked for.
Peace and thanks to the hard-working people behind the scenes who always cop the flak.
I was disappointed to see the two books that I just finished still on my FB timeline saying "made progress with" for days now, it makes me look rather slow!
Kara wrote: "Mary wrote: "Kara, is it possible to change the new feature so that instead of saying "Mary made progress on...," it says "Mary is on page 75 of 200 of...."? I liked (and many other commenters also..."It only sends one update to facebook though. So, if you first say you were on page 75 of 200, that will show up in your recent activity and you can say "show on timeline" and get that to show up. But then, when you update to say that you are now on page 100 or 150, etc, on the same book, it does not show up in your recent activity for you to be able to say "show on timeline." That is the problem.
I believe that where Goodreads has gone wrong is that they have confused the "recent activity" part of facebook (and the restrictions on that) with the ability to publish to the newsfeed. They are not the same thing. We are all complaining about it not publishing each individual update to our newsfeed - as facebook allows every other app to do. And the people writing the responses are answering us by telling us about the restrictions to the recent activity part. The people complaining don't care about the fact that the recent activity part isn't changing. We are talking about an entirely different function on our facebook accounts. Yes, clicking show on timeline will get us that... but only ONE time per book. It is possible if you have goodreads posting to our newsfeed, like every other app we use that does this perfectly.
Someone at goodreads who actually uses facebook a lot and who posts regular updates about where they are in books from their goodreads account should be involved in figuring this out because they will probably understand what we are having trouble doing and what we are trying to communicate about.
I realize all of the changes made are really pushed by FB. It's too bad because the only reason I used GR was because of the individual, manual ability to post pages and reviews to the FB news feed. With this change I see little reason for continueing to use this site.
After I enabled Goodreads for Timeline, I went to my Timeline and added the application Goodreads to the small collection of items just below the banner (on the right) at the top of the page. It appears that enabling Goodreads for Timeline simply means that I can now go to my Timeline, click on that app, and see my Goodreads posts as its own timeline. But no more posts show up in my News Feed for friends to see. VERY frustrating!