Did You Notice Something a Little Different?

Amanda wrote: "I HOPE that LisaN who created the Stylish plug-in "Goodreads fix" will see my message. THANK YOU THANK YOU for creating this. I've never used Stylish before, but I installed it purely so I could co..."

Is it on Chrome?

☯ DαякєηRнαℓ ❛ ᴰᵃʳᵏ ᴴᵘᶰᵗᵉʳ ❜ wrote: "Okay I owe you a fiver then. But yeah, gender missing and for me it says that."

lol!

Kaitlyn wrote: "☯ DαякєηRнαℓ ❛ ᴰᵃʳᵏ ᴴᵘᶰᵗᵉʳ ❜ wrote: "Dear Goodreads;

Please fire your online decorator. Please.


That is the first thing I think about seeing the new GR look. Every single time GR has TRIED to re..."

Thank you! The more I talk about it the more I noticed how dull in colour the text looks compared to everything else. What where they trying to do?! Plus I've never cared about the font! I never even knew what it was called can't we just use words?! lol

Susan wrote: "☯ DαякєηRнαℓ ❛ ᴰᵃʳᵏ ᴴᵘᶰᵗᵉʳ ❜ wrote: "Okay I owe you a fiver then. But yeah, gender missing and for me it says that."

lol!"

Haha oh man I do sound weird... But I've checked and a few of my friends profiles say the same thing! Like GR is still busy with that aspect :/

☯ DαякєηRнαℓ ❛ ᴰᵃʳᵏ ᴴᵘᶰᵗᵉʳ ❜ wrote: "Susan wrote: "☯ DαякєηRнαℓ ❛ ᴰᵃʳᵏ ᴴᵘᶰᵗᵉʳ ❜ wrote: "Okay I owe you a fiver then. But yeah, gender missing and for me it says that."

lol!"

Haha oh man I do sound weird... But I've checked and a few..."

You know why gender is missing? To be "politically and socially correct". They are trying to make it so transgender people feel comfortable, is what I think is going on here.

The contrast hurts my eyes. Too bright.

loved it.

Kaitlyn wrote: "☯ DαякєηRнαℓ ❛ ᴰᵃʳᵏ ᴴᵘᶰᵗᵉʳ ❜ wrote: "Susan wrote: "☯ DαякєηRнαℓ ❛ ᴰᵃʳᵏ ᴴᵘᶰᵗᵉʳ ❜ wrote: "Okay I owe you a fiver then. But yeah, gender missing and for me it says that."

lol!"

Haha oh man I do soun..."

Can't they just add in a 'both' option? Cause that's stupid. I liked that about the thing. Plus it doesn't make sense since no one is 'required' to fill it out either.

The thing is, aesthetically, it's really cute. I will give GR that.

But the eyestrain is fucking ridiculous.

I'm at 120% magnification, lowered the brightness of the screen about 15%, and I still am having eyestrain.

How many employees are at Goodreads, is it odd that none of them are experiencing any eyestrain? I find this odd. Maybe they all routinely use 150% magnification.

Me on the other hand, its visually crap.

Kaitlyn wrote: "You know why gender is missing? To be "politically and socially correct". They are trying to make it so transgender people feel comfortable, is what I think is going on here. ."

1. That occurred to me too. If that's the case, why not announce it? Why the effing secrecy??

2. But again, specifying gender on your profile has always been optional. So why would it suddenly be an issue?

3. It's gone from author profiles too. Yet in the author edit page, it is still an option to select gender from the dropdown box. You can select it and save the change, but it doesn't appear on the profile page. Why?? There are some authors whose names are ambiguous, like E.M. Forster. (Or even Evelyn Waugh. Evelyn Waugh: man or woman? On Goodreads, you're not allowed to know.) Dead authors. We must protect them from having their gender revealed. Apparently.

Lobstergirl wrote: "This relates to the same listopia bug I've been posting about. On the page listing the listopias a user has voted on, e.g.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/user_v...
there is no ..."

And it also does something annoying - in the tab, it has HTML and looks like this:



That's the full title of the tab, which can be seen when hovering directly over the tab. Only part of it can be seen on the actual tab, though. But it's clearly has some HTML crap on it.

All the Listopia things look like that, when viewing someone's votes.

EDIT: THIS IS IN FIREFOX

I don't find the round avatar cute. There's no reason I should look like I'm peering from a ship's porthole. But there's a round avatar bandwagon, and Goodreads has to jump on it otherwise they will feel uncool.

Yes, the round avatar is just ridiculous. Don't they know that we like the original appearance of goodreads because of the vintage-y feel and that they don't try to fit in with other social media? Well, until now. *sigh*

Lobstergirl wrote: "I don't find the round avatar cute. There's no reason I should look like I'm peering from a ship's porthole. But there's a round avatar bandwagon, and Goodreads has to jump on it otherwise they wil..."

LOL!!!! Also adds a little weight no? XP

Ahh these folks need to go back to design school.

Kaitlyn wrote: "Yes, the round avatar is just ridiculous. Don't they know that we like the original appearance of goodreads because of the vintage-y feel and that they don't try to fit in with other social media? ..."

EXACTLY GR IS SUPPOSED TO BE VINTAGE! They're the book group not the social tizzy group!

My mother is a photographer and a website designer and she does absolutely amazing (Not saying that just because she's my mom. lol). Seriously, hire her! She could do so much better.

Asteropê wrote: "Lobstergirl wrote: "This relates to the same listopia bug I've been posting about. On the page listing the listopias a user has voted on, e.g.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/user_v......"

Yeah I noticed that but didn't know what to make of it. Seems like a bug.

Frankly at this point I believe a two year old can do better...

I don't care about the "porthole" picture at the top right of the page, but find it odd that it's rectangular in the profile section and square in the challenge section. Why? This is what GR considers an improvement? It's such a worthless change.

I also think it's weird that you now have the option to "compare E" I know it's not really an E, just a cut-off B, but new members are not going to know what they're comparing.

I think someone said that it makes it easier for mobile but not for computer usage. I have seem my favorite websites do this in the past and for me using only a computer I could no longer use the sites because of the difficulty of being able to see them. The font is okay but the colors are not. The turquoise color makes things have a 'hase' around them don't know if it would if it was in bold or not. But please don't change it so it will be better for mobile usage instead of computer usage. I use GoodReads ALL the time and would be very sad if I had to stop visiting it because I couldn't see it. If I go in and change my computer font for bigger font then it messes up my other sites (like Facebook and my email etc) so don't like to change the size on my computer just to be able to see better on here. I love this site and love what you'll do for us. But please try and find a better way of change if you must change.

Kaitlyn wrote: "Amanda wrote:

Kaitlyn, yes, I use Chrome. I don't know if it will work for the other browsers, but it's great on Chrome!

☯ DαякєηRнαℓ ❛ ᴰᵃʳᵏ ᴴᵘᶰᵗᵉʳ ❜ wrote: "Frankly at this point I believe a two year old can do better..."

My mother has done web design and photography professionally since I was a little kid. They should hire her. XD

Kaitlyn wrote: "☯ DαякєηRнαℓ ❛ ᴰᵃʳᵏ ᴴᵘᶰᵗᵉʳ ❜ wrote: "Frankly at this point I believe a two year old can do better..."

My mother has done web design and photography professionally since I was a little kid. They sh..."

XD

Amanda wrote: "Kaitlyn wrote: "Amanda wrote:

Kaitlyn, yes, I use Chrome. I don't know if it will work for the other browsers, but it's great on Chrome!"

How could I download it? Please teach me your ways. Haha

Alright I would love, truly, to continue procrastinating with you lovely folks but I wanna go read now. The book in my hands, which doesn't redecorate and make my eyes sore lol

☯ DαякєηRнαℓ ❛ ᴰᵃʳᵏ ᴴᵘᶰᵗᵉʳ ❜ wrote: "Amanda wrote:

I promise you're not. :) Go to userstyles.org and install the application itself (upper right corner, impossible to miss!), then search on their site for "Goodreads fix." (To know you have the right one, check that it was created by LisaN.) Then you literally just tell it to install that plugin. Refresh Goodreads and you'll instantly see the difference.

Hope this helps!

☯ DαякєηRнαℓ ❛ ᴰᵃʳᵏ ᴴᵘᶰᵗᵉʳ ❜ wrote: "Alright I would love, truly, to continue procrastinating with you lovely folks but I wanna go read now. The book in my hands, which doesn't redecorate and make my eyes sore lol"

Ahh and I should probably do homework, which is all due tomorrow and cannot be turned in later than tomorrow. *sigh* I hate ending semesters..

Amanda wrote: "☯ DαякєηRнαℓ ❛ ᴰᵃʳᵏ ᴴᵘᶰᵗᵉʳ ❜ wrote: "Amanda wrote:

I promise you're not. :) Go to userstyles.org and install the application itself (upper right corner, impossible to miss!), then search on their..."

Thank you very helpful nice person ^^

I didn't have a problem reading it before and I don't have a problem now. Win-Win!

Kaitlyn wrote:

For Kaitlyn, since I don't know if your notifications are set to get all replies on this thread or just replies to your posts, here's the Stylish plugin how-to!

Go to userstyles.org and install the application itself (upper right corner, impossible to miss!), then search on their site for "Goodreads fix." (To know you have the right one, check that it was created by LisaN.) Then you literally just tell it to install that plugin. Refresh Goodreads and you'll instantly see the difference.

Hope this helps!

i really don't notice that much of a difference, but i feckin love the new font!!!

Thanks Amanda! I just downloaded it, as I've been stalking this thread for a response about it. Soooo much better! Although I wish there was some way to get rid of the blue, tealish color...

So true about the vintage-ness of Goodreads That Was. It's not supposed to be cool and dizzy. It's supposed to be proud of its old-fashioned-in-the-best-way-ness. And I so agree about the silliness of the round avatar. Come on, Goodreads, you were classy. Get back to that. I mean, what font is classier than Georgia? Really.

Who'd have thought I could actually care this much about a site's visual layout? For crying out loud. Okay, that's it, back to work I go.

the more I look around GR the more I realize how fucked up ths is
Thanks, GR Team for spending our money on that crap of "modern design"
No link to Amazon to any book will I EVER follow from this site, nor will I EVER buy books from Amazon again.

Becky wrote: Also, whenever I post or refresh the page, the font actually loads and then reloads, like there's a skin over the whole page. That's very annoying. It should just load, not pre-load and then change font.

This comment is from 2 days ago and this issue is still not fixed...

Ugly, but effective.

I wish the font was different, like a different sans, but otherwise I really like it.

Much better. (I'm using Chrome on a MacBook Pro Retina. )

Any plans on using a font or svg for the icon set? The checkmark, notification, inbox, and friends icons are still rather blurry.

Has there been any kind of response from Goodreads staff about the incredible eye strain the ridiculously white background is causing so many people?

I can't look at it long enough to search the 4 pages of comments since I last asked the question!

Honestly I don't like the fonts and I don't understand the point of the round profile pictures and I don't like the way the different sections on the pages are harder to spot now but I'll get used to all of that given time. I'll NEVER get used to a glare that gives me a headache within 5 minutes though.

Yes, I can tone down the brightness on my screen but then I can't see any other websites properly. Yes, I can download the add on that someone so helpfully created but why the fuck should I have to load more crap on my computer just to access this site when I could just move all my books over to booklikes and delete my goodreads account? That's got to be the easiest option at this point :o(

Lobstergirl wrote: "Can someone who understands coding/website technology explain why each page jumps around and appears in a nonfancy font until the fancy font gels? It's like the site can't erase its original font, ..."

Apologies if someone else has already answered you further down the page but I haven't read all the comments here yet. Not sure there is enough time left in the year to read them all, lol.

Anyway, the reason some people are seeing that stutter or jitter (FOUT <-flash of unstyled text) when pages load is because the new fonts are web fonts and must be downloaded when the page renders and you see the fallback fonts until the web ones load.

NOPE.

The update didn't work for me - it's still very blurry. I'm using Chrome on a laptop and I also wear glasses but have not had a problem with reading the GR site before.

I like the round profile picture, but I believe that, since some people don't, the option of choice should be given to each account holder in their account settings. ^^

Sadly, it's not just the font that's messed up. More bugs are crawling out of the woodwork the longer you spend on GR these days. Font I can adjust. Bugs? Unfortunately no amount of DEET on my monitor can help me get rid of them.

I agree, the fonts aren't fully formed.

This is very very unreadable. Please let us select our own font at least.

BAD BAD BAD

Goodreads please fix this, I love this site but I can't spend much time on it anymore without getting headaches

Tal wrote: "Lobstergirl wrote: "Can someone who understands coding/website technology explain why each page jumps around and appears in a nonfancy font until the fancy font gels? It's like the site can't erase its original font, ..."

Apologies if someone else has already answered you further down the page but I haven't read all the comments here yet. Not sure there is enough time left in the year to read them all, lol.

Anyway, the reason some people are seeing that stutter or jitter (FOUT <-flash of unstyled text) when pages load is because the new fonts are web fonts and must be downloaded when the page renders and you see the fallback fonts until the web ones load. ."

Thanks, that makes sense.

It does make the site seem cheesy though...like maybe they weren't willing to pay for good quality fonts...

This is what I see now when I open a GR page. It sits there for a minute or two before it finally comes into focus ...or not. Finicky thing.

messed up lines