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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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I am serious.. Amazon.com offers exceptional customer service and 'outstanding quality of product'notice what I typed in quotes?? :) :)
Myeah. Still looking forward to seeing something change, but will be exploring the other sites available too. I still think having to put add-ons just to use a site is BS and indicates less cause for the site to do their duty to their members.
Erma wrote: "Myeah. Still looking forward to seeing something change, but will be exploring the other sites available too. I still think having to put add-ons just to use a site is BS and indicates less cause..."
I agree. I've said before it is stupid for a user of this website to get a hundred different applications and spend their time and internet on stuff just to use one site better and messing with the rest of the settings for other websites / their computer.
you can argue principle of the matter all you want till you are blue in the face... see where it gets ya..meanwhile.. I am comfortably using the site with no problems... and i am ensuring ad blocker is running..
How hard is it to roll back to the original font, I mean it was working, wasn't?I appreciate the new layout but my biggest issue is with the font, it is not usable for more than 1-2 1minutes.
I have to use stylish to be able to use the site, this is stupid!
Why do I have to have addons to view a single site?
Please fix this!
Eddie wrote: "I am serious.. Amazon.com offers exceptional customer service and 'outstanding quality of product'notice what I typed in quotes?? :) :)"
bit of sarcasm, eh? Are they getting a bit big for their boots?
Ayman wrote: "How hard is it to roll back to the original font, I mean it was working, wasn't?."It may be that they trashed the old code without saving it somewhere. I have seen this happen, and makes for more headaches than it should.
It could also be why GR is so resistant to returning to the classic look until the bugs are gone from the current settings.
I had this concern cross my mind immediately after the change (I had thought I needed to update again, or had broke the lappy). But as time progresses, the idea has cemented itself in my head.
Mind, you, though, I don't know for sure. This is conjecture. But conjecture based on experience.
Eddie wrote: "you can argue principle of the matter all you want till you are blue in the face... see where it gets ya..."It usually gets me in trouble, and then I see change for others. I don't mind, as long as there is positive action.
You seem to have a defeatist attitude towards this, and that is understandable, Eddie. I am glad that so many people took it on themselves to create layouts for the site. It certainly does help some people (but looking at your example was making me nauseous - that color is horrid, but glad it helps you).
But it does not address the primary issue. It, rather, turns a blind eye to the problem a la "If I can't see it, it isn't happening."
So I will keep looking for change. Positive change.
On a side note. Since yours is fixed for you, why are you still here, bah-humbugging our valid complaints? It seems counter-productive.
I am here, to help others where possible, and to keep reminding Goodreads that this huge error of theirs can not simply be forgotten and pushed under the rug with grandmas spilled ashes..Call me pessimistic, but in turn you must also call me pragmatic and a realist.
and, if the color i have doesn't seem pleasing.. there is https://userstyles.org/styles/106787/... there is over 6000 global styles. I am sure that number is sufficient for everyone on Goodreads.com
Or -- they don't want to apologize and admit they made a stupid error in changing everything so fast. I too wondered if they were fool enough to dump everything about the previous way the site looked; possibly, if they had saved it, they could have just returned it to the way it was. You can call me a cynic.
Eddie wrote: "I perfer to call you 100% right Jane!"Well, to mix metaphors they crossed their Rubicon but burnt their bridges after them, it seems like. :)
no.. we have crossed the red sea... safely... a bit ill tempered(cant blame us) and they are chasing us... only to be consumed by the sea and swept away... buahhaha
Erma wrote: "It may be that they trashed the old code without saving it somewhere. I have seen this happen, and makes for more headaches than it should."The thought also crossed my mind, but then I gave them the benefit of the doubt since the very first thing you learn as a programmer is to archive everything so it's easy to roll back changes. But then, considering that I'm not convinced they did other programming best practices/SOP like testing on multiple platforms and browsers...
I am using Stylish, but I actually thought of leaving the thread and maybe GR altogether, since I do have accounts on both Leafmarks and Booklikes. However, if we stop bugging GR about this mess, nothing will ever be done ...not that I think anything will ever be done with the current business arrangement, but I feel it's my reader duty to keep poking.
Out of curiosity, whose bright idea was it to "revamp" the site? There must be a person(s) responsible. I would really like to hear what they have to say about this fiasco and explain further sporadic bouts of disastrous activity in this new, apocalyptic GR.
Please don't leave GR M'rella!!I will miss you to much!
Eddie wrote: "Please don't leave GR M'rella!!I will miss you to much!"
OK, OK :) You talked me into it! :D
But I am only staying til
Maybe #3500 ;)
WOW, LOOK AT ALL THESE POSTS.....SO MANY FOLKS, AND NO CHANGES...IS THIS LIKE THE OLD PEPSI, WHEN THEY TRIED TO CHANGE IT, AND FOLKS WENT OUT OF THEIR MINDS, BECAUSE ONCE IT WAS CHANGED TO THE NEW PEPSI, THEY USED ARTIFICIAL SUGAR, AND IT TASTED REALLY BAD, SO PEPSI CHANGED IT BACK..HINT..HINT...
hahahhahaa
Good thing I never bothered with drinking Pepsi! Lol
@stephanieWhat if GR threw away the old sugar recipe, like Erma suggested?
...and now my iPad is dead and I blame it on GR. The horror of it just killed mah bebe :/
Put the color back into the section heads, please. Without them the randomly floating text on a white page looks careless.The serif is a welcome change.
Links! Can you, please, please,
please,
make the links stand out more!
They are almost indistinguishable most of the time.
☯ DαякєηRнαℓ ❛ ᴰᵃʳᵏ ᴴᵘᶰᵗᵉʳ ❜ wrote: "I think this poll here puts everything into perspectivehttps://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1..."
Overwhelming majority and it don't count for nothing, apparently.
To the people on this update.Can you change the message title font?
It sucks because my name is an i, l, s, a, but it looks like two l's or two I's, if you get the picture.
Thanks,
Ilsa.
Erma wrote: "☯ DαякєηRнαℓ ❛ ᴰᵃʳᵏ ᴴᵘᶰᵗᵉʳ ❜ wrote: "I think this poll here puts everything into perspectivehttps://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1..."
Overwhelming majority and it don't count for nothing, appa..."
Seems that way, sadly.
"Somethıng Turkısh" when I write my comments:I like the font used in writing comments, but there is a single annoying details: when I write an "i" after a "f", the dot on the "i" disappears and it looks like a Turkish undotted "ı".
Nothing against the Turkish, on the contrary, I was wondering if they noticed this confusing detail.
I mean the sans serif, the one I'm using right now before posting these words.
There are a bit too much comments to read them all, so I would just like to add in case someone already had not, the new font is really not adapted well to the Slavic languages with a Latin script, which is kind of weird seeing as the font was made by a Polish guy.Anyway, in both the reviews and messages, letters with diacritics, such as č, š, ć, ž, look bad.
Can someone point me to a Stylish style that makes the links stand out more (different color, perhaps?) I am not color blind, but I feel like I am, when trying to find links in the comments. Hate to think what people who are color blind are experiencing.
I've stopped reading reviews and synopses because it's such a strain on my eyes. HATE the font.
Bug:https://www.goodreads.com/review/stat...
On My Books > Stats page, details view, the stars in the left column are not aligned properly horizontally with the book covers. There are pale gray lines separating the star categories; sometimes the stars are substantially below the line, sometimes barely below it, and sometimes they are partly overlapping with it.
I don't think it was this way before, I would have noticed. Sloppy looking.
The bug appears regardless of what magnification or non- you are using.
Lobstergirl wrote: "Bug:https://www.goodreads.com/review/stat...
On My Books > Stats page, details view, the stars in the left column are not aligned properly horizontally with the book covers. Th..."
Just curious: looking at pub year in your stats, you seem to have read a lot of books in the early 1900s that weren't even published then. Did you do that on purpose, or should 1909 be 2009, etc.?
stephanie wrote: "WHAT BUG??????"If you click the link that Lobstergirl posted and then click 'details' next to a year, you'll see what she means.
I don't see the bug either. But we all use different browsers and different OS.
Ivan wrote: "[..] the new font is really not adapted well to the Slavic languages with a Latin script,..."Polish guy created Lato, the sans-serif font. Slavic characters are okay in it. It's the serif Merryweather that is a disaster :/
lethe wrote: "you seem to have read a lot of books in the early 1900s that weren't even published then.."I was reading an ARC.
Lobstergirl wrote: "lethe wrote: "you seem to have read a lot of books in the early 1900s that weren't even published then.."I was reading an ARC."
Lol
Lobstergirl wrote: "lethe wrote: "you seem to have read a lot of books in the early 1900s that weren't even published then.."I was reading an ARC."
:D
You need a back to top button for the main page!!
Darkbutterfly wrote: "You need a back to top button for the main page!!"SECOND THAT!
Darkbutterfly wrote: "You need a back to top button for the main page!!".....But I think people gave up :( GR created the thread, let everyone blow the steam off, no changes came and all is well in GR's universe once again. AMEN.
What's next on a "screw your members" list, i wonder.
Darkbutterfly wrote: "You need a back to top button for the main page!!"That would be nice, too!
I'm still hoping for a nice background, or better font contrast, or decorative sidebars, or dividers, or something to break up the massive amount of whitespace on the screen...
It looks so bland and vanilla... not even vanilla... like egg whites. Flavorless.
Erma wrote: "I'm still hoping for a nice background, or better font contrast, or decorative sidebars, or dividers, or something to break up the massive amount of whitespace on the screen... ."Never going to happen unless drastic events take place or they decide to mess with us again. Everyone has calmed down and learned to deal with it by whatever means available. So, why should GR bother?
*disgusted*
Because WE are the end users! We deserve more respect!
contact Amazon.com corporate office.."
you funny =)