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UPDATE: Thanks for all the feedback! For those of you who were having issues with blurriness, we have good news: we pushed out an update this afternoon that improves the sharpness of the font for users who were affected. We’re monitoring all the comments and will keep you posted on any further updates.
If you’re a frequent visitor to Goodreads, you've probably noticed a few tweaks we’ve made to the fonts and colors on the desktop site today. Our goal with these small-but-important changes was to consolidate and refresh our visual styles and lay the groundwork for some design improvements that we’re planning in the future.
What’s different?
To enhance the readability of text on Goodreads, we’ve adopted two new open-source fonts. Lato, our sans-serif font, was designed by Warsaw-based designer Łukasz Dziedzic (“Lato” means “Summer” in Polish). Merriweather, our serif font, was created by Eben Sorkin and was designed to be pleasant to read on screens.
To make it easier to scan the page for information you need, we’ve touched up and modernized the design of common page layout elements like section headers, tabs and links.
To simplify and modernize our visual design, we’ve reduced the number of link colors we use, removed gradients from buttons and the site navigation, and applied a more harmonious color palette to interactive elements such as buttons, stars, and links.
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The design is nice but despite the update the font is blurry and hurts my eyes. I can no longer use the desktop version.
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Still feels a bit blurry to me in some areas. And still a bit too thin. And I guess I'll adjust to the disappearance of the border around the reviews, I did like it though.
Eddie wrote: "http://prntscr.com/9geg2qhttp://prntscr.com/9gefo0 this is what goodreads looks like to me..
Goto Google type in stylish and either chrome or firefox
install the add on to your browser
NOW
goto..."
Thanks for that little tip, it is indeed better. We'll see about long term.
Anaee wrote: "Still feels a bit blurry to me in some areas. And still a bit too thin. And I guess I'll adjust to the disappearance of the border around the reviews, I did like it though."
Yeah I like the design, but the font and font styling are my biggest concern.. they said they'll introduce a fix on Monday so let's hope it is a good fix :)
Dawn wrote: "Everyone's offering fixes for Firefox and Chrome--but what about us IE users?"Which of the issues are you experiencing?
Lobstergirl wrote: "What's up with the apostrophes."
Hmmm ... I'll ask someone to take a closer look at this.
Lobstergirl wrote: "Will the missing gender on user and author profiles ever be addressed?"
We're aware of this, and we're working on it.
Lobstergirl wrote: "Jaclyn wrote: "I'm seeing this too ..."Will the missing gender on user and author profiles ever be addressed? Why is this so top secret?"
does that even matter? if you have a pic of a woman, 80% of the time that person will be the woman. if not, you can always look at the selection of books and deduce if it's a woman or man, i'd say this works 90% of the time. I don't see how not knowing if a user is male or female really affects your productivity on the site, maybe on the forums but you don't go saying 'um, i can't talk to you unless i know if you're a she or a he'.
Dawn wrote: "Everyone's offering fixes for Firefox and Chrome--but what about us IE users?"IE??? People still use that???
lol jk but you should really consider switching over to Firefox or Chrome. They are much better browsers.
Alexandria wrote: "Dawn wrote: "Everyone's offering fixes for Firefox and Chrome--but what about us IE users?"IE??? People still use that???
lol jk but you should really consider switching over to Firefox or Chro..."
I do. I only use Chrome if IE isn't working. I frankly think it stinks.
Jane wrote: "Alexandria wrote: "Dawn wrote: "Everyone's offering fixes for Firefox and Chrome--but what about us IE users?"IE??? People still use that???
lol jk but you should really consider switching over..."
Wow really?? That's the first time I've heard that... well I'm going to get Win10 soon so i'll try out Edge and see how I like it
Heather K (dentist in my spare time) wrote: "I hate how there are no borders around reviews!!! It is so distracting! Here is a before and after (I happen to have a review up on my computer before the changes)https://twitter.com/DentistHeath..."
Phew, glad to know I'm not the only one.
Alexandria wrote: "Jane wrote: "Alexandria wrote: "Dawn wrote: "Everyone's offering fixes for Firefox and Chrome--but what about us IE users?"IE??? People still use that???
lol jk but you should really consider s..."
A friend [real life] has 10 and she's not thrilled.
she showed me an article which said not mandatory to get 10.
Microsoft is going to force Win 10 on all 7/8 computers, pushing it as required system update in 2016. They don't care that some laptops are not compatible and our software might not survive it.Edge is just IE. I'd frankly never use a browser that can't have a privacy addon like Ghostery or Privacy Badger installed.
Jilly wrote: "Designed for phones, so I guess all of us old-timers who use desktop PCs with larger screens can just fuck off."yep
Ari wrote: "Lobstergirl wrote: "Will the missing gender on user and author profiles ever be addressed? Why is this so top secret?"does that even matter? if you have a pic of a woman, 80% of the time that person will be the woman. if not, you can always look at the selection of books and deduce if it's a woman or man, i'd say this works 90% of the time. I don't see how not knowing if a user is male or female really affects your productivity on the site, maybe on the forums but you don't go saying 'um, i can't talk to you unless i know if you're a she or a he'. "
It's not only missing on user profiles, but author profiles too. Some people may not know if an author with a gender ambiguous name is male or female. People may want to know. GR Authors can edit their own profiles, but for non-GR authors, librarians should be able to add gender (and were able to in the past).
For users, I don't care if a user wants to remain gender anonymous. Fine with me. But the option should exist to state what your gender is, if you wish to. It was available in the past. It should be available now.
It sounds like it's a bug, not a new feature, at least.
Jaclyn, this is a bug. On the main page under my Currently Reading, when I am at 110% mag it reads:The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
p. 138 of 317 ( 43 update status
%)
rather than:
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
p. 138 of 317 ( 43 %) update status
I.e., the % is getting bumped to the next line.
However, at 100% and 120% it shows properly. Firefox.
Btw it's totally uncool to crop our profile pictures so severely on our profile pages. Part of my face is cut off. Looking at all my friends, parts of their faces are cut off too. WTF. One of my friends' profile photo is a square, whereas my profile photo is a very elongated rectangle. People uploaded photos where their heads/faces are centered in the photo; you then cropped off the right side so many faces are now off-center.
Lobstergirl wrote: "Btw it's totally uncool to crop our profile pictures so severely on our profile pages. Part of my face is cut off. Looking at all my friends, parts of their faces are cut off too. WTF. One of my fr..."Just checked mine and my pic is the same way. SMH. WTF is right! Get. It. Together. GR. PLEASE!!!!!
Part of my face is cut off too!! This is getting ridiculous.
OOOOOH LAWD HAVE MERCY.,. I CAN ONLY SEE IF I TYPE BIG,,, CAN YOU ALL SEE ME? CAN YOU SEE ME NOW....?
Jaclyn wrote: "M'rella wrote: "This is what I see now when I open a GR page. It sits there for a minut..."The overlapping is gone. But the orange of my rating is still different from the orange of GR's rating. I understand that your changes were supposed to minimize colours on your site. I mean, I can hardly tell the links from the text, but the rating stars are ...colourful.
Windows7/Chrome
Heather K (dentist in my spare time) wrote: "Part of my face is cut off too!! This is getting ridiculous."Right. We all have our photos/avatars uploaded to fit a rectangle. Now over 20 million users (according to wikipedia) will need to change their pics to accommodate a different shape. Or at least make sure that it still looks good.
Quaskie wrote: "Everyone, let's just delete / sign off our accounts and show GR how we could go to something else, if they don't care for the community.It's not like they're the devil or something, just the chan..."
That's you. I would do it for a day or two just to show the power of readers. However, many others (not all, but plenty enough) will not. Instead they will have sock puppet accounts created "just in case". And GR will start bragging - again - how its popularity increased because of the changes. Been there, done that many times now.
Well I just logged in without my user ss. It doesn't really look any better than last week. Did anybody see anything change today? I should qualify that last question, did anybody see any improvements today?
Athena wrote: "Please, can you return the 'preview' feature back to the review page? It's a pain in the butt to save a review un-updated, preview it, edit it & re-save just to make sure I've closed my damn italic..."The preview button is there, actually, albeit faint, pale grey and in parenthesis and lower case beside the 'Post' button. You may have to scroll over until you see the indicator on your cursor. But it is there.
Marge wrote: "Thank you Goodreads for making the background less white. I actually didn't really notice it was a greenish background before, but I really noticed it when it got blinding white! I can now read again without needing sunglasses."When was the background greenish? I never noticed that, and mine is still the glaring white! Is it on just one platform, because this is also the first I heard of it...
Yay! My butt-berry profile pic is now perfectly centered in the little circle! Thank you, GR! Great improvement! For all the people, whose faces are cut off: you are using the wrong body part (along with wrong browsers, computers and OS).
Tal wrote: "Well I just logged in without my user ss. It doesn't really look any better than last week. Did anybody see anything change today? I should qualify that last question, did anybody see any improvements today?"I have not.
Erma wrote: "The preview button is there, actually, albeit faint, pale grey and in parenthesis and lower case beside the 'Post' button. You may have to scroll over until you see the indicator on your cursor. But it is there. ..."I think that is new....never seen it before.
This still happens when I increase font size so I can read . No matter what size anything bigger than the original produces the mess:
Windows7/Chrome
Lobstergirl wrote: "Btw it's totally uncool to crop our profile pictures so severely on our profile pages. Part of my face is cut off. Looking at all my friends, parts of their faces are cut off too. WTF. One of my fr..."This appears to be fixed...for now. I just checked mine again and it's now re-centered with no parts cut off.
Tal wrote: "Well I just logged in without my user ss. It doesn't really look any better than last week. Did anybody see anything change today? I should qualify that last question, did anybody see any improveme..."I checked using IE and the only thing I see is the font size when using the comment box now seem to be adjusted appropriately. Before they were gigantic. PM's are the opposite. They remain minuscule. The preview button has been added to the book reviews. Everything else seems to be the same. :(
Don't have any pressing issues on FF because some really awesome person fixed things for me. :D
@EddieThank you so much for your help! Greatly appreciated :)
you are most welcome m`rella!! happy to make goodreads.com and every other website look better!
you are most welcome m`rella!! happy to make goodreads.com and every other website look better!
Jaclyn wrote: "Dawn wrote: "Everyone's offering fixes for Firefox and Chrome--but what about us IE users?"Which of the issues are you experiencing?"
Just the overly bright screen, color, and font issues. I use IE on a computer, not a mobile device of any kind. People are sharing solutions for that on other browsers.
Alexandria wrote: "Dawn wrote: "Everyone's offering fixes for Firefox and Chrome--but what about us IE users?"IE??? People still use that???
lol jk but you should really consider switching over to Firefox or Chro..."
Not Chrome. I do occasionally use Firefox but I have my reasons to not use GR on it.
Suddenly seeing formatting errors.https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...
"switch to this edition" button, font misaligned, button too wide for lettering
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
"Other Editions
27"
looks funny. Did the font get bigger? Is it misaligned now?
Jaclyn wrote: "Dawn wrote: "Everyone's offering fixes for Firefox and Chrome--but what about us IE users?"Which of the issues are you experiencing?""
Seriously, though, 2823 posts into this thread and you have to ask?
I've been away for 3-4 days and the site is still blindingly bright. On the other hand - I now know what snow blindness feels like while living in a country that doesn't get snow. Whoopppeeee! [SARCASM].
Sebastian wrote: "Jaclyn wrote: "Dawn wrote: "Everyone's offering fixes for Firefox and Chrome--but what about us IE users?"Which of the issues are you experiencing?""
Seriously, though, 2823 posts into this thre..."
HAHA,,,BOO-YA
Sebastian wrote: "Jaclyn wrote: "Dawn wrote: "Everyone's offering fixes for Firefox and Chrome--but what about us IE users?"Which of the issues are you experiencing?""
Seriously, though, 2823 posts into this thread and you have to ask? "
LOL, brilliant!
In My office is allowed ONLY IE. Always too white
Lobstergirl wrote: "Suddenly seeing formatting errors.https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...
"switch to this edition" button, font misaligned, button too wide for lettering
https..."
I'm not seeing the misalignment - are you still seeing it? If so, could you post a screenshot or send it to support at goodreads dot com with your platform and browser information?
Sebastian wrote: "Jaclyn wrote: "Dawn wrote: "Everyone's offering fixes for Firefox and Chrome--but what about us IE users?"
Which of the issues are you experiencing?""
Seriously, though, 2823 posts into this thre..."
Yes, we do, as we've been able to fix some of the font rendering issues and minor bugs that have appeared. It's helpful to know what is still the most problematic for you so that we can address those issues next. :)
Sebastian wrote: "Jaclyn wrote: "Which of the issues are you experiencing?""
Seriously, though, 2823 posts into this thre..."
ROFLMAO!!!
@Emily, Director of Customer CareIs anything being done about the link color? They blend in with the grey font so well, it's hard to tell what's what and where.
Makes total sense to roll back all the changes and start anew than dealing with one problem at a time and introducing more bugs as you stumble along. It will probably turn out cheaper in the end, too.
Emily wrote: "Yes, we do, as we've been able to fix some of the font rendering issues and minor bugs that have appeared. It's helpful to know what is still the most problematic for you so that we can address those issues next. :) "I really like your sense of humor, Emily. ;-)
But here goes: headaches, sore eyes and nausea after reading anything written in the pale Merriweather font on a glaring white background on your average desktop PC. That is the major problem for just about everyone complaining. You are nowhere near having fixed "some of the font rendering issues".
I believe it's been mentioned here and there and about a couple of thousand times.
lets solve the problem for these incapable web designerseveryone get stylish and turn goodreads into the website YOU want it to look like.. font and color wise!
Sebastian wrote: "Emily wrote: "Yes, we do, as we've been able to fix some of the font rendering issues and minor bugs that have appeared. It's helpful to know what is still the most problematic for you so that we c..."I agree with you Sebastian,their NOT fixing the problem at all, I can't even log on using my phone because it hurts my eyes.or on my iPad .Goodreads needs to listen,instead their making it worse.
Wait, they said they "fixed" the blurriness issue? I'm not seeing the fix. The font is horrid. The lines are blurred. No borders. Text too small. But, have no fear, it's fixed.
I'm really missing being on this site a lot.
