Did You Notice Something a Little Different?

I am sorry, but I HATE IT SO MUCH. I hate the font look as well as size. Please can we have the option to go back to the other. It's so bad it will deter me from the site, and I love this site for reviews.

Syc wrote: "I don't find it funny that some people have been complaining in a very rude manner. Yes, goodreads are open to constructive criticisms but people should stop overusing that kind of 'privilege' give..."

Goodreads is not a "free site"!. It is a site that uses a lot of advertising and sells books through Amazon and other distributors. Think of it like broadcast TV. The shows may be "free" but only because they make a lot of money through advertising, which ultimately is about selling products. GR is not providing a free service out of the goodness of their own hearts, they are selling books. That's fine! I certainly don't mind it any more than I mind broadcast TV. I think it's good actually. But do not confuse this site for a 'free' site. A truly free site would not be making money off its users the way GR makes money off of us. Again, I don't mind that they do make money off us through booksales to Amazon & other sites. But yelling at people who are rightfully complaining about a site they directly support through sales is actually pretty rude. When we shop using links from the book pages here on Goodreads we are actually paying Goodreads for their service. Just because we don't send off a monthly or yearly membership fee to GR does not mean that it is a 'free' service. If a TV channel started messing with their format, colors they broadcast with, volume of sound etc people would complain and rightfully so even though that, too, is a "free" service. Free services are rarely truly free!

Lobstergirl wrote: "13 of 15 pix in "POPULAR PHOTOS" (chosen by staff) are white girls with long hair. Two are white young men.

Do you not like looking at darker skinned people or what? Put in some non-white people for God's sake. Put in some people over the age of 25. "

Popular photos are chosen algorithmically, depending what photo you're viewing at the time.

Well then your algorithm is very strange, because the only pictures I'm looking at are the ones on my own profile, which is where the "popular photo" matrix shows up. None of my pictures on my profile are of white girls with long hair. None are of breasts and cleavage. No matter which of my personal photos I click on, I see a majority of young white women with long hair in the "popular photos" matrix.

Obviously your algorithm is designed to bring up young white women with long hair, or boobs.

I like the new font, it is crisper and easier to read. I don't like that the headings no longer have boxes around them ie friend reviews, readers also enjoyed, about the author, these now seem to disappear into the page and are easily missed.

This is kind of hard to read. My eye vision is getting worse and worse every day and I don't need Goodreads to help with that.

Change it back the glare is killing me.

The font hurts my eyes to read. It's huge on my screen and a weird color. It's kind of giving me a headache.

Also, why the huge margins along the side? It makes everything else on the page look smushed together.

Ok I figured out my problem. Can't read it on firefox but it looks great on Explorer. Hope it gets fixed.

I've tried reading the site with the new font and find it difficult to read. It is actually starting to hurt my eyes. The spacing of the letters is off or something, like my eyes don't know where they should settle.

Not loving the font, but perhaps it'll simply take time for me to adapt to it.

Well I refuse to use chrome or IE..

that is for durn sure!

I'm sorry, but it's really hard to read this font...
I also don't like the green colour, but the most annoying thing is definitely the font. It's kind of blurry and therefore hard to read..

UGLY. UGLY.UGLY.

Anyone notice when you scroll up and down real fast the weird blue changes to teal?
It's really noticeable on my homepage.

Syc wrote: "I don't find it funny that some people have been complaining in a very rude manner. Yes, goodreads are open to constructive criticisms but people should stop overusing that kind of 'privilege' given by goodreads. This is a free site and I don't think people should just throw mean words to the goodreads staff like whether they're doing their job right or whatsoever. They are not your slaves so stop whining. They're just trying to do their job for god's sake."

Users are what give GR value. Not in some abstract sense, but actual, financial worth. GR would not be worth anything from a financial standpoint without users. Without users GR would just be a book database, and guess what, that already exists: Worldcat, Library of Congress, others.

Also don't forget that GR staffers get paid. It's the GR librarians who are the slaves.

Looking at all these comments... only furthers my big NON-faith in humanity (I already didn't but.... this is just unreal). Seriously, GET OVER YOURSELVES. People are being sold into sex trafficking, are not getting proper drinking water, are being beaten into senselessness; AND YOU ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT FONTS AND A NEW FORMAT ON A WEBSITE.

I hate the font. The old one was something antique; this is humongous and boxy. Yuck.

Why are they doing this? I honestly do not understand websites that make changes for changes sake. Did they get a lot of complaints? Issues?

Makes me think that there was a change in management and someone's opportunity to make a statement.

Please make the background color easier on the eyes. And increase the sans-serif font size one more time (at least feed and username links on comment threads, I can hardly read those). The site is NOT easier to read even if the text's showing properly.

Now, that is not saying I dislike the changes on the whole, but it seriously needs tweaking to work. // Not to even mention the issue of consistency, but I guess I have to leave that for another day when my head isn't hurting quite so much...

//moved to another comment.

*eye roll emoji*

I understand giving constructive criticism, but goodness gracious. Some of y'all just need to take a deep breath and count to ten.

»jαу wrote: "*eye roll emoji*

I understand giving constructive criticism, but goodness gracious. Some of y'all just need to take a deep breath and count to ten."

Thank you!!!!

Goodreads has said the background is the exact same as its always been. It sure looks the same to me. I'm not understanding the complaints people have. /shrug

Suzy wrote: "Seeing comments that there is a difference between how this shows up on Chrome and IE, I opened up both. (I use Chrome as my default browser.) The look is completely different! They both have reada..."

Would it be possible for you to send the screenshots from IE and Chrome to support at goodreads dot com? They'd be helpful for our investigation - the fonts should be displaying the same way.


Lobstergirl wrote: "What was the point of getting rid of the ability to make text boxes wider?"

This is a bug that we are working on.

The main font is incredibly hard on my eyes. The words blur. The secondary font is better, but the color is too faint and is causing some eye strain. Please adjust!

image:

Rachel wrote: "image: "

That's how my face probably looked like when I saw it some hours ago!

I'm sorry, I know your intentions are good, but...DESPISE. Were there seriously that many people who couldn't read the site before? If it isn't broke, don't fix it.

Hannah Renee wrote: "People are being sold into sex trafficking, are not getting proper drinking water, are being beaten into senselessness"

Notify law enforcement and charitable nonprofits. GR will not address these things.

Sorry to add to the negative, but the new font makes reading more difficult - a pity for a book site.

Typical of the Amazon way of working - change for change sake, and then a pretence that the consumers' opinions are important. I have no doubt at all that despite so many people finding this font less usable that you will keep it, and our comments will be ignored. Until you change it again (and again) for something worse.

At the very least I would like the review borders back. That used to be my favorite feature and now it looks really sloppy. By all accounts, this seems to be a site-wide problem, and possibly annoyance.

For those who use Firefox, go to TOOLS, click Option, --> Click Content --> Color and Front --> click Cooperplate Gothic, change the front size.
It helps a little.

On the Group bookshelf, you need to make the book title and the word "about" different colors. They are both teal and run together:

Winter Damage
about

It seems cleaner somehow. The pages seem more crisp. I like it!

It's rather hard for me to read as well. :/

Hannah Renee wrote: "Looking at all these comments... only furthers my big NON-faith in humanity (I already didn't but.... this is just unreal). Seriously, GET OVER YOURSELVES. People are being sold into sex traffickin..."


Wow, hyperbole much? Lost your faith in humanity pretty quick there. People can complain about fonts and also care about and take action to fight the things you mentioned, I promise.

I'm on a desktop and the font is really hard to read, the letters looked half formed :(

wtf they're so fucking small!!

PLEASE HAVE PITY ON DYSLEXICS & POOR EYE SIGHT PEOPLE UGH DAMMIT

NO. NO. NO. -_________________________-

I don't like the change, I find it hard to read.

I just noticed this reading the new comments and have to mention it: the fonts take a while to load every time I refresh the page. Basically most of the site flashes white for a while and cannot be read. Never happened with the old layout, so is there any hope of fixing it?

And still no half star ratings? Ugh.......

I love it! I'm surprised by how many negative comments there are here — I have to wonder whether there's some technical issue that's making the fonts appear different on some screens or in some browsers, because I can't see how they're difficult to read.

Can they make the background less bright? (It's kind of hurting my eyes...)

Not sure how I feel- the font hurts my eyes. The colors aren't pleasant to read, either. Bad first impression, but we'll see how it goes. Perhaps I'll change my mind, but I doubt it.

Alma Q wrote: "I just noticed this reading the new comments and have to mention it: the fonts take a while to load every time I refresh the page. Basically most of the site flashes white for a while and cannot be..."

I see this too.

I love it! ❤

Sara2 wrote: "I'm on a desktop and the font is really hard to read, the letters looked half formed :("

For those who use Firefox, go to TOOLS, click Option, --> Click Content --> Color and Front --> click Cooperplate Gothic, change the front size.
It helps a little.

When you click "next," the page should arrive at the first comment at the top of the next page. It doesn't, it arrives at the top of the page. You have to scroll down quite a bit to get to the next comment.

If the background hasn't changed then it's the font and all the extra space. It's blinding and giving me a migraine, the kind of migraine I get when I have to squint too much. Which is why I faithfully wear sunglasses when I'm outdoors. I never had a problem on here before the change. Now I can't last 5 minutes before my head starts pounding. Obviously something is causing it.

When you edit a comment, there is no longer an indicator that the post was edited. Is this a bug, or a new thing?

Lobstergirl wrote: "When you edit a comment, there is no longer an indicator that the post was edited. Is this a bug, or a new thing?"

There is (at the top of the comment), but it's very small and very gray.