Did You Notice Something a Little Different?

Well, it no longer looks like my eye doctor is using the wrong lenses - thanks for that - but it's still damned ugly.

Well I must say that I think this update of GR has gotten the most comments ever. Even surpassing the comments from the... I forget now but it was the thing about books and nerds and if this is you if you really love books.

Thanks for putting all your time and effort into this instead of:

+ adding a feature to edit status updates
+ fixing the bugs
+ making it easier to add/hide pictures in reviews on the front page

This website DEFINITELY needed new fonts and colors instead of fixing old problems.

Oh wait...NOT.

#sarcasmmode

Not good at all !!
I don't like it !!!!!!!!!!

I liked the backdrop you had on the previous version, it had a library/home feel. and I prefer the old version better. Though this new font is more readable it's sharp on the eyes and corners, maybe a slightly more curvy font?

The font makes the text more difficult to read.

So I am using 3 different Stylish extensions. Goodreads FIx, which made the site readable to me again and not glaring anymore, Goodreads san serif, which does something to some of the fonts and also Goodreads tweaks which gave me back the beige header boxes so stuff is separated again and my eyes aren't helplessly scanning over the screen trying to find a anchor to grab onto.

So if those of you that created those thingies are in this thread, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I should have to install stuff just to view a website, but you guys made it possible for me to spend time again on one of my favorite sites.

nice that is GooD

I don't love the new fonts, but I don't hate them either. At 110% on my browser Merriweather is still blurry, but it's fine at 125%.

What I DO hate is that I can't load status comments using the Android app.

if amazon only knew how badly goodreads.com is failing...

Constantine wrote: "It's definately better! Fresh colors, readable font, simple and clean. Don't know why u haters hate... (actually we all know why)

Good job, GR, thanks for the improvement!"

I personally would like NOT to hate, but I do, because the new font gives me and the majority of the readers here physical pain. Have you not read any of the comments?

I'm sorry but I think it made it more blurry and hard to read, what the heck!

I gotta agree with everyone saying the new font is harder to read. I love san-serif typeface and it is more modern looking, but the font you guys chose is too small - much harder to read.

I don't like the blue colour and new font, I can't see how it should make things easier to read, for me the old layout worked better.

But I hate changes, period, so I don't think anything would have found my approval, especially since everything was great as it was.

The new fonts are very difficult to read and appear blurry. This was not a problem I had previously so it seems odd that what it was supposed to fix is actually causing the problem now.

I also can't agree more with this statement from a previous comment: "Still, Goodreads, can you fix this? I'd rather not have a million 'extensions' on my browser when the site should just work. "

So, I wonder how long they will allow us to vent here before the thread is closed to more comments. It feels like we are just talking to each other, because nothing is done to improve this sorry state of GR affairs.
I hold no hope for anyone on GR team moving a single finger to help us, been failed by it so. many. times.

Change back the font, please. The colors I don't mind.

من تغییرات جدید را می پسندم

As I wrote in Farsi, I like new changes.

Never had any trouble reading anything on here before, but now I have to squint to read just about everything and even just reading a few updates is making my head hurt, because it's so blurry/pixelated/jagged looking and the background so blindingly white it's making my vision swim. Aesthetically speaking, I do like the look of the solid backgrounds instead of the gradients, which looked a bit outdated, but the font choices and sizes just kills it for me :( As it is now... it's a website about reading... that I can't read...

Atunah wrote: "So I am using 3 different Stylish extensions. Goodreads FIx, which made the site readable to me again and not glaring anymore, Goodreads san serif, which does something to some of the fonts and als..."

Amen, Atunah! Same for me - I used the extensions and I appreciate whoever created them.

The print is still too small on the updates, and the light text is still too light. I'm skipping what I used to read.

Shahrokh wrote: "من تغییرات جدید را می پسندم"

I read and write Arabic, but I'd hate to do it on this site now - I can't even see separation to any of the lines above. It's one long squiggle that's indecipherable, to me.

ETA: And it's even worse when quoted and italicized.

hate it!

well I hate it - I CAN'T READ IT ANYMORE - it seems not blurry - more like the lines of the words have breaks in them..
HORRIBLE
and you don't know what's what on the startpage - the lines have all disappeared it's all so together now - no seperation between different posts ... and the weak colors of the STARS and and WANT TO READ icons and links - ugh - why does everything always have to be changed - this is not FB - this was an amazing page, but this new stuff - not my thing... I hope I'll get used to it.

I use a PC to use Goodreads, so maybe that's why it looks so horrible -- too white, squinchy font, weirdly blurry... I'm sure there were valid reasons for the change, but it's giving me a headache.

Looks amazing! Really like the new look.

I don't have qualms about website changes, but I'll admit, I'm red/green color blind, so often when I see this softer green, I don't see the difference between it and black. :(

NOOOO!!!!HATE IT!!! WTF?!

I'm not a fan of either the new font or the coloring. I think the teal color is closer to black and it makes it harder to distinguish links from text at a quick glance. The font is childish and, as others are saying, somewhat blurry and hard on the eyes. I think it's because the text is less bold than it used to be. I prefer the old look by far and I'm surprised that this new look made the cut inside Goodreads, because it surely doesn't make the cut on this end as far as many users are concerned.

It's not all bad.

I have no problem with Lato, although I can see why some people think it's too small.

Aside from my problems with Merriweather (It's a terrible screen font), I wish the serif vs. sans-serif font selection was more consistent. If all the headers were serif and the body text was sans-serif, that would work. But when I'm looking at my profile page, and the assignment is different between the "currently reading" and "recent update" feeds, and then different again in reviews and comments (and even where I type is Lato, though it will display as Merriweather!), we have a problem.

I'm OK with the gradient removal, but not with the total removal of section headers. It looks like different sections are just floating, unanchored, and I'm not sure the chosen colors provide enough contrast.

I don't particularly like the... salmon-peach(?) color chosen for the review stars, but I'm sure I'll get used to it eventually.

My problems with Merriweather have already been discussed.*(See message 2532 on p. 51)

I appreciate it! Looks good on my Mac and iPad! Thank you!

was better before xD

hurts the eyes actually to read now.

Just popping back in here, since we just seem to be talking to ourselves, to say I just read one page of comments and my eyes are actually stinging...

It looks good, thanks.

I see most people don't like the serif font, but I'm not digging the sans-serif. I can't read sans-serif on a good day. Dimming down or softening up the back-ground would I think. It's too bright in my opinion. Need something not 'true white'.

Hmm! the before and after in your above sample are identical!

Ya, I don't like the san serif font, fwiw. But suppose I will survive it.

Love it!

Just to be clear... My problem is with the San serif font on the main page. The font here is ok for me

I don't care either way. Change for the sake of change.

Oh! This is really not pleasing to read. And the color is too much irritating. Please, change it, GR.

While the new font admittedly has a certain elegance to it, it doesn't improve readability at all. Quite the opposite. As a daily Goodreads user, I find it very distracting for use in this context. I'm no fan of the new link colors either, personally.

I keep coming here to see if the old style is back... but no such luck.
Why are you doing this to us? No one can read anything in Goodreads... so from now on you are Badreads for me.

Did I notice something different? Why yes! I noticed that everything is smaller, faded, and more difficult to read!

These fonts are cool — but they don't have Cyrillic letters. Guys, it's offending

I am fine with the colours, but the font in my newsfeed is really bad - it's too indistinct and blurry, needs to be sharper - plus I really just don't like the font itself, too tall and narrow.

I dont like any of the changes. Please bring back the old look and feel!

They've managed to make the text in the reply box bigger and where you can actually see the space but wow, big improvement.... *sarcasm*

I don't mind the font, but I actually find it HARDER to scan for information because some of the section headers are gone, and now I have to look really carefully not to miss a section under a book (where my friends' reviews end and where the others begin)

Also... as you're fiddling with fonts, there's actually only one thing that *really* bothers me on Goodreads. I just wish the author dashboard had a feed that showed new reviews on all the author's books. A pipe dream I've had for years :(

I don't mind the font but the screen is far too bright for my eyesight. Can't look at it longer than 10 minutes.