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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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Kierra - The minimalistic design is the new trend in webdesign, many websites are joining that wagon. I do think that the new webdesign changes are more focused on the mobile device rather than the computer. I am not the biggest fan of all the changes Goodreads are making, but Goodreads are the one making the decisions here. Eilonwy - I thought it was just me, which is why I asked. Maybe it is the new topbar that makes it seem brighter?
Welp GR REALLY fucked it now. I hate it.
☯ DαякєηRнαℓ ❛ ᴸᶤᶠᵉ'ˢ ᴸᶤᵗᵗˡᵉ ᴼᵈᵈᶤᵗʸ ❜ wrote: "Welp GR REALLY fucked it now. I hate it."Agree.
MAN, THIS NEW SCENERY SUCKS ...CAN YOU ALL SEE ME..CAN YOU SEE ME NOW???
Ilsa (Gone this Weekend) wrote: "THEY lost the beautiful bookshelf!"Which lent character to a fairly spare site. Now the character is gone and it looks like every other site out there.
I'm so upset about all this. The reasonable desktop mode has been turned into the ridiculous mobile.
I miss that shelf. I mean now it looks like a modern impersonal shit site. Well done guys! Well done. NOT.
This hovering business.I can't touch my mouse, or have a hand near my mouse n fear of accidentally moving it, because I accidentally moved it and - YES! THE HOVERING HORROR IS IN. THE. WAY!!!
The dropdowns are a disaster. Impossible to avoid them. The Browse dropdown is two-thirds the width of the entire screen on my laptop. I never gave a *&^$ about genres or recommendations and now I have both of them shoved in my face. I don't want recommendations.
whose "favorite genres" are those in the drop down, anyway? certainly not mine. don't care or want their recommendations either *nods to Lobstergirl*that red in the corner drives me mad. grey round icons, red and black squares on hover and for count. throw in neon yellow triangles for fun! My two year old will love it!
I keep wanting to press the notifications...
The idea of "hover" option. Hover doesn't work on devices for obvious reasons. This is a "special" feature for desk/laptop users? WTH?
Changes are in progress as we speak. I get little red "error" messages throughout the site and on multiple devices. *braces herself*
If this is special I'd rather take the regular option thank you very much.
There ARE no options. We've been through it before. This is a
The red is some gross orangey color. Is that supposed to be unoffensive or something?
Ilsa wrote: "The red is some gross orangey color. Is that supposed to be unoffensive or something?"It looks good over black ...i guess
Hey Goodreads - YOU ARE NOT facebook! WE DON'T WANT YOU TO BECOME LIKE facebook! SO STOP ACTING LIKE IT AND GO TO HELL WITH THIS IDIOTIC MOBILE APP LIKE LAYOUT!!!
Titas (Emperor) wrote: "Hey Goodreads - YOU ARE NOT facebook! WE DON'T WANT YOU TO BECOME LIKE facebook! SO STOP ACTING LIKE IT AND GO TO HELL WITH THIS IDIOTIC MOBILE APP LIKE LAYOUT!!!"
WORD! If I wanted to be on Facebook I wouldn't have deleted my account and joined Goodreads!
anyone else having trouble using their mouse here on goodreads, like its not letting you do anything at all. you can click and click and its like just a white box in front of you ,
Elizabeth wrote: "anyone else having trouble using their mouse here on goodreads, "Well, when I try to right click on the drop down menu, the menu sometimes disappears and it doesn't always "open link in new tab".
The Browse tab also blots out 3/4 of my laptop screen (both length wise and width wise) when you hover over it. The advertising in the browse menu needs to go. That is why you had a recommended books menu/tab!! If you want to make the recommended books section more visible, give that its own tab. Or stick the book recommendations in all that white, wasted space down the sides.
At this rate, I fully expect the next update to have white writing on a white background with only the
Elentarri wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "anyone else having trouble using their mouse here on goodreads, "Well, when I try to right click on the drop down menu, the menu sometimes disappears and it doesn't always "open..."
Your right .instead of just leave it alone their basically making us hate Goodreads.
I am very curious what happened to the underlined part of this statement:"Our approach was simple: Improve the usability of the site and give it a cleaner, more modern look, while preserving the familiar feel of Goodreads—a unique home for readers."
With every new change GR looks less and less familiar :/
Less familiar?I think they are going for the amazon look. Next change it'll be all black up there. Familiar indeed... All this useless effort as if there wasn't other stuff to fix around here **shakes head**
Same here. I hate it. It looks like FaceBook now. Like, wtf???
Yet again they fixed what wasn't broken and just made a huge fucking mess of it. I don't spend even a fraction of the time on here I used to because I just can't stand sll the changes they made. It does my eyes in. My hours a day goodreads addiction as dropped to a couple of visits a week to reply to messages and occasional flyby visits to add books or update my status. At least it's giving me more time to read but I miss the social side that I used to love
☯ DαякєηRнαℓ ❛ ᴸᶤᶠᵉ'ˢ ᴸᶤᵗᵗˡᵉ ᴼᵈᵈᶤᵗʸ ❜ wrote: "Same here. I hate it. It looks like FaceBook now. Like, wtf???"Exactly! Like this site is for bookworms and it should give you that book feeling.
yep. it's terrible. if you want to complain, think again. we have 3200+ comments here, 90% of which is about how terrible changes are. yet here we are. with more uglies and no one listening to us. I don't even bother any more.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...The main thread about all the updates, for anyone interested.
Why bother? Just a page to complain and no one listens. Also, I miss the book shelf image on the homepage too :(
I hate the homepage, too, and I don't go there anymore. Instead of clicking on "Home" in the line at the top of the page, I click on "Community" and, in the pull down menu under it, "Discussions." That takes me to something like the old home page, with a list of the most recent comments in groups I belong to.
Honestly, not comfortable on the eyes and filled (even more than it used to be) with irrelevancies.
It looks like the wind blew off the tops of all your garbage cans and the garbage is overflowing from them and blowing onto your lawn and down the street.The homepage, I mean.
come on goodreads... yet again????? utter bs.. and now just beyond terrible website design, you have 'we suggest for you' ad crap???? i just blocked that with ad block.... you have no clue what interests me... your 'metrics' are WAY off.
If I wanted to open facebook, I could have opened facebook. What the hell goodreads?
Elentarri wrote: "Some genius posted this on the other thread.https://userstyles.org/styles/131118/...
Thank you!"
How do I use it? What if I want to keep some changes, like the large cover of currently reading books, but want to revert other features as they were in the old goodreads homepage?
Elentarri wrote: "Some genius posted this on the other thread.https://userstyles.org/styles/131118/...
Thank you!"
What does it look it? There's no screenshots?
The font is smaller, the font has been changed back to what it was before December, the huge front covers are lots smaller. You can also change things to suite yourself.Install Stylish as a Firefox add-on, then install the link above. The link comes with instructions. Reload your GR page. If you don't like the changes, you can modify it by clicking on the S that is now in the tool bar in your browser, right-clicking on "Goodreads adjustment" and either delete or edit. The edit instructions for modification are simple and easy to use. The little bit of software also allows you to remove bits and rearrange the desktop.
There is no screenshot because you can modify it to suit yourself.
#3217-3218Read my comment #27 in the dedicated thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
(Upthread someone posted screenshots of their tweaks, but it will be different according to what you want to block/change. I do have small covers in my feed, f.e., but blocked the currently reading/recommendations/must reads.)
Elentarri wrote: "The font is smaller, the font has been changed back to what it was before December, the huge front covers are lots smaller. You can also change things to suite yourself.Install Stylish as a Firef..."
THANK YOU! For explaining everything. :)
Esha wrote: "☯ DαякєηRнαℓ ❛ ᴸᶤᶠᵉ'ˢ ᴸᶤᵗᵗˡᵉ ᴼᵈᵈᶤᵗʸ ❜ wrote: "Same here. I hate it. It looks like FaceBook now. Like, wtf???"Exactly! Like this site is for bookworms and it should give you that book feeling."
THIS!
I want that cozy, simple look from a few years before.
Can anyone explain how to "uncomment" features in the Stylish fix? I loaded it, but I can't tell how to personalize it. I just hate this new Goodreads homepage. It's so cluttered, and trying to visually separate content (i.e., friends' updates and reviews) from all the book covers/descriptions is a nightmare. I can't find any of my friends' general updates any more because they're so lost in the "Everything" mode, so I've been mainly using "Book Updates Only" and "Reviews Only," but that leaves me positive I'm missing important information about what's going on with people.
Why do GR's "improvements" always consist of making the site harder to look at and follow? I, too, miss that "cozy, simple look" it had when I first joined.
If GR thinks this is such an improvement, why don't they give us the option of using the old page, and see how many people really want to keep the new look?
Eilonwy wrote: "Can anyone explain how to "uncomment" features in the Stylish fix? I loaded it, but I can't tell how to personalize it."It's written in the notes at the top of the fix's page. Add /* before and */ after a line that you don't want to implement.
It seems brighter to me again, too. :-(