Did You Notice Something a Little Different?

3018 posts and nothing has changed..Come on folks, do you really think they care?

#3018

I actually like the bigger font for my shelves and the long names squeeze themselves in nicely without breaking the lines.
However, this is just another show of "whatevahs" approach. The changes should be consistent through the browsers and through the OS.

I appreciate attempts at fixing things, but they are just not good enough for everyone to see :(
Either hire back the original designer, sinc, they at least were good at what they did, or hire someone with OCD, someone who can concentrate on doing the job right.

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I am probably talking to myself here:

Am I the only one uncomfortable with "status update"? If I insert a picture in it and save t, all I can see is code, just like the italics of bolds don't show, but corresponding tags do. I have to click "view status updates" to see the post properly. It wouldn't hurt to have a Preview button for it either.

stephanie wrote: "3018 posts and nothing has changed..Come on folks, do you really think they care?"

no they don't

Elizabeth wrote: "stephanie wrote: "....Come on folks, do you really think they care?"

that's a rhetorical question, right? because we all know the answer.

I can't believe how much GR has started to suck.

☯ DαякєηRнαℓ ❛ ᴰᵃʳᵏ ᴴᵘᶰᵗᵉʳ ❜ wrote: "I can't believe how much GR has started to suck."

Considering the wide array of options out there, I'm worried much less.

And found out something interesting...

Amazon is canceling their site, Shelfari, and importing all of their members here. Could explain alot of the new changes, making it easier for the imports, and to hell with the natives...

That's bullcrap. I mean GR is an antique! Its not supposed to be about visual quality but the actual quality of the site. I've always loved the muted tones, and that rich feeling. I mean its about the books!

But whatever. They don't care so.

Muted tones are the best, honestly.

I mean its as if GR has just conformedto what society gets their heads stuck up on which is appearance instead of the efficiency of how well their website works.

Tell me, in any time and any society, when did anyone ever care about the natives? *snort*

Erma wrote: "Amazon is canceling their site, Shelfari, and importing all of their members here."

Actually, as I understand, Shelfari members are left to their own devices and do not get any help from Amazon with exporting their books/groups/discussions etc. A lot of them are migrating to Leafmarks, as in some respects that site is closer to Shelfari than GR is.

Ilsa wrote: "Muted tones are the best, honestly."

In the context of presentation or in the context of discussion? :-)

WOW, WE ARE GETTING TO THE MILLION POST MARK..KEEP POSTING FOLKS, FOR SOMEONE IN THE OVAL OFFICE WILL RESPOND...

stephanie wrote: "WOW, WE ARE GETTING TO THE MILLION POST MARK..KEEP POSTING FOLKS, FOR SOMEONE IN THE OVAL OFFICE WILL RESPOND..."

Lol

Anyway, I believe that by now pretty much everyone gave up hope of gramazon responding, not to mention fixing things. We are just venting. Which was the original purpose of this thread, of course.

YEAH, I KNOW, BUT I LIKE TO HAVE FUN WHILE PUNCHING IN THE FACE..IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN....(SMILE)...MY EYES ARE BEAT UP BY READING THIS THREAD, SO I TYPE BIG NOW, FOR I NEED ASSISTANCE. GOTTA GET AHOLD OF GR-MEDICARE...

GR-Medicare? Woman, what are you talking about? They are so good at stalling and avoiding, you'll die a thousand deaths before you get any help at all. Mostly likely they'll just throw a band-aid at you even then.

I think we should start a thread "Vote of No Confidence".

Perhaps we could initiate a "strike" day and advertise via all our friends here on GR where we would unite in not logging on for that day?

I AM JUST THROWING IN A FEW LAUGHS M'RELLA, SO JUST OVER-LOOK MY COMMENTS. THE REASON WHY I SAID MEDICARE IS BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT STALLS, YOUR DEAD AND STILL THEY STALL....SO JUST ZOOM BY MY COMMENTS, JUST MAKING A LIGHT OF ALL THIS MESS.

@MomToKippy

ha-ha... that idea has been introduced before. never worked, unfortunately :/

@stephanie

Not familiar much with Medicare. Sorry :/ I guess it's a good reference then :D

The font size for member profiles suddenly got bigger. It's unpleasantly big, so I downsized from 110% which I've been at since the change, to 100%. The problem is, at 100% the feeds are too small to read comfortably.

All this endless fucking around. Just put the size of member profiles font back to the way it was, so I can view the site at 110% comfortably.

I have to change my browser magnification when navigating from PAGE TO PAGE. This must be the definition of bad website design.

I am totally accustomed to the changes now and like the new look. Well done goodreads!

@Robert

Not every machine/browser displays the new design correctly, it's a huge no-no in web-design. I cannot possibly say "well done" to compliment a sloppy job.

And guess what? Don't get comfortable yet. Haven't you heard?
"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."
*Bolds are mine.

I am afraid to think what's coming next.

I reckon what's coming next is probably a site with a black background with fluorescent green writing all over it. It couldn't possibly be any harder to read than this ridiculous glaring white background!

Let's face it it's crystal clear that goodreads don't give a shit if users are actually able to read each other's reviews and status updates anyway so I wouldn't put any kind of nutty design ideas past them. I'm sure we'll have polkadotted profile pages and stripy book ones. Perhaps we should have a contest to see who can come up with the most bonkers looking design and the prize can be that goodreads implement it! I think even at our worst we'd do better than the current design team

Sarah wrote: "I reckon what's coming next is probably a site with a black background with fluorescent green writing all over it. It couldn't possibly be any harder to read than this ridiculous glaring white..."

Roflmao - You hit the nail on the head!

pfft lol

Actually if they redesign again I'm gonna spam em with hate mail.

@Sarah

Nope :( We'll ever be so lucky. They are trying to "simplify and modernize ... visual design". We'll be stuck with white on white or black on black.... or whatever color for font and background that's "new" black.

I am just going to stop posting, like I actually did in the beginning, because it was obvious back than that nothing was going to come out of it anyway.

Should have never come back - waste of time :(

M'rella wrote: "@Sarah

Nope :( We'll ever be so lucky. They are trying to "simplify and modernize ... visual design". We'll be stuck with white on white or black on black.... or whatever color for font and backgr..."

True. They don't care. And obviously their talentless hacks. That's all folks !

THERE IS THIS GUY, WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT, AND HE HAS THIS MIND SET TO " I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK" ATTITUDE. SO TODAY FELLOW GR MEMBERS, I WANT YOU TO GET UP, GO TO THE BATHROOM, LOOK IN THAT NICE CLEAN MIRROR, AND SAY TO YOURSELF " I DON'T GIVE A FLYING F&&K...

CAN YOU PLEASE FIX THIS. This bug has been ignored, I reported it many days ago.

On the My Books > Stats page, in details view, the stars on the left are misaligned in relation to the horizontal lines separating 5 star books from 4 star books from 3 star books, etc. Sometimes the stars are between the lines, sometimes they overlap with the lines.

Can we get a staff appearance in this fricking thread to address outstanding issues ?????

Yeah my profile still says last active in December 2015 and while in editing the male / female option is still there, it doesn't appear on my profile. Which has also developed larger text in some areas then others.

This glare is still a bitch and I hate the colour. I hate the round stupid profile ding dong and I hate that for the longest time even if your profile is set to only receive messages from friends, if you send out a group mail, none friends can get in that way!

Also its stupid when someone sends you a friend request, you decline, but now their previously private profile is still viewable by you!

The new text is also bullshit.

CHANGE IT FUCKING BACK YOU STUPID FUCKING MORONS!

Wow I just went Chernobyl...

Staff have been responding in this thread: https://www.goodreads.com/comment/sho...

(Because having multiple threads and then only responding in one makes so much sense.)

Debbie--I have a headache from GR wrote:
(Because having multiple threads and then only responding in one makes so much sense.)"

GR staff don't strike me as having such a thing as "sense" - common or otherwise.

Lobstergirl wrote: "Can we get a staff appearance in this fricking thread to address outstanding issues ?????"

It seems like they have restricted themselves to their group only: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

forget the staff.. they are useless... fix the problem yourself with stylish.. the dark theme has been fixed, and you can easily change the red color to whatever you wish!

What's the point of the goodreads staff creating this post in the first place if they're just going to completely ignore any questions or complaints it raises?

If that doesn't hammer home how little they give a shit about their users nothing will. I always knew we were insignificant little fleas according to them but I wonder how much their precious site would be worth if we all deleted our content? I don't want to have to go that far but the alternative sites are improving all the time while goodreads just stagnates or gets worse so tell me goodreads - what possible motivation do we have to stay?

Eddie wrote: "forget the staff.. they are useless... fix the problem yourself with stylish.. the dark theme has been fixed, and you can easily change the red color to whatever you wish!"

We shouldn't have to fix it ourselves! You keep saying that but I say I refuse to get one hundred and one new programs to view just one damn site better!

☯ DαякєηRнαℓ ❛ ᴰᵃʳᵏ ᴴᵘᶰᵗᵉʳ ❜ wrote: "Eddie wrote: "forget the staff.. they are useless... fix the problem yourself with stylish.. !"

We shouldn't have to fix it ourselves! You keep saying that but I say I refuse to get one hundred and one new programs to view just one damn site better!."

you dont need 101 programs..

its one add one.. and it has lots of styles to make many of the top websites look better.. facebook google.. youtube..

you keep holding out hope for the site to get fixed... I perfer to be a realist and accept the fact the Goodreads staff are quite incompetent..

Eddie wrote: "you dont need 101 programs..

its one add one.. and it has lots of styles to make many of the top websites look better.. facebook google.. youtube..

you keep holding out hope for the site to get f..."

I appreciate you telling people about Stylish, because it might be helpful to some, but please understand that not all of us are able to install it, and many of us don't want to bother because of one website.

I have no problems with other sites, and I didn't have a problem with GR either, but now everything's screwed up. For me personally, there are no bugs, but the fonts are ugly and difficult to read (especially without the borders, which the staff has said won't be returning).

I suggest you all go to the feedback section, the blog announcements tend to be forgotten after a while.

ok.. go complain. its been a month now..... let me know what it gets you..

I don't want to even add one program. And I don't care. I already know their effing useless.

i just can't stay away - lol

I have Stylish, but I keep switching it on and off, because I want to see how everyone else is doing and what's changed, if anything.

M'rella wrote: "i just can't stay away - lol

I have Stylish, but I keep switching it on and off, because I want to see how everyone else is doing and what's changed, if anything."

I understand. It's addictive :D Over 3000 messages, must be a record :D

I will say this.. a white background.. suckss... once you realize how much better dark background.. is with lighter text...you will want it for every website!!

Eddie wrote: "ok.. go complain. its been a month now..... let me know what it gets you.."

Actually, it hasn't been a month, because there has since been staff replies in the feedback section and some minor changes have occurred.

Goodreads won't probably do any major changes to the overall layout, but complaining is better than being passive and doing nothing. At least then there's a chance, even if it's just a teeny tiny, practically nonexistent, one.

When it comes to the dark background... No, just no. Some like it, some don't. For me, it's difficult to read. If I see one more PowerPoint slide or website with a dark background and a glaring white text...

meanwhile... i continue to use goodreads... with no problems with how it looks on my screen....

Eddie wrote: "meanwhile... i continue to use goodreads... with no problems with how it looks on my screen...."

Good for you, nobody's stopping you. Like I said, not all are able to install anything extra in their computers.

F.P. wrote: "Maybe someone should send Goodreads a single email petition, containing a whole bunch of usernames, but I'm afraid that a big part of the problem is: this site is free to use. In my experience at l..."

I'd love to sign a petition! One of the problems is, that most users are passively getting used to the layout, and some just leave or some don't care enough. Maybe exactly because this is a free website?

I agree about the computer thing. I know many who don't have any need for small gadgets, and that should be taken into consideration in web design.