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Features we would like to see on BookLikes
An edit and preview option on comments.
I want a lot.I want all reviews, with friends/following/followers reviews showing first, on each book page.
I want groups with versatility and with shelved books, mods, etc.
I'd like a way to minimize the size of the book covers that seem to be shouting at me. ;-)
I want spoiler tags and boxes.
I'm sure I want a lot more but I've barely explored the site.
What I want is a way to get back to something. Like this Wish List. How do I get back to it if I don't remember the url?
Its really important to me that groups - once they have groups - have moderator tools. One of the reasons I didn't stick on LT is that being a moderator of a group didn't give you any tools to manage the group. You still had to ask the LT admins to do it for you if you wanted to delete anything or remove anything or move things from one place to another. The whole point of groups (for me)is that moderators can set and enforce their own particular rules. If I want a group where authorial self promotion is absolutely not allowed, then I need the ability to remove self promotion and remove authors who wont obey the rule. If I want a group where it is allowed, but only in certain folders and topics, I need to be able to move things to those folders and topics. If I want to permit discussion of erotica then I need to be able to exclude underage partipants. And so on. Groups with moderator tools.
I'd really love an app for my nook and ipad. I know that doesn't fall under the category of what we want to see on the site, but I think it's important.
Ultramarine wrote: "does booklikes have a certain place where I can post my suggestions? I actually made a full list of those :-) I like booklikes interface and design. but I need quite a lot for it to replace GR."Or post in their discussion group/room -- http://booklikes.com/thread/9/feature...
Bunny wrote: "Its really important to me that groups - once they have groups - have moderator tools. One of the reasons I didn't stick on LT is that being a moderator of a group didn't give you any tools to man..."How do you like the new groups feature Bunny?
I'm excited that there is a groups feature but haven't had much time to play with it yet. So far it looks pretty simple and I'm likely going to want more tools but its early days.
As always, more customization. I found this week's update / upgrade excessively complicated.
Mollie ❥Kingsley❥Dusty❥Shura❥Brennus❥Kellan❥SatanJack❥ wrote: "I'd really love an app for my nook and ipad. I know that doesn't fall under the category of what we want to see on the site, but I think it's important."There is an iPhone app already, and Dawid said when they introduced that a few weeks ago that they are working on more. So they clearly see that as an important feature as well.
Ooo, I have to go check out the app! Thanks!!!
Current iphone app is basically a bookscanner; but, it's just the first step.
Ooooh...no Thursday candy yet.But the ability to see or add bookcovers to posts just disappeared on me.
That really excites me.
Could it be I cannot select books to add to a post because the book data is down so a real book database/catalog can be put in place? *crosses fingers*
Oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please ....
Booklikes needs to have options that allow a member of the site to...1) Edit a book entry (need designated Booklikes "librarians")
2) Create a list of Booklikes friends (as exists on Goodreads)
Thursday Candy this week was "New posts on your dashboard reminder."
And this week it was Sorting your Friends. Anyone else as underwhelmed as me?
I don't even bother to check anymore.
They're working on a proper book database, so although I'm underwhelmed by the candy recently, I appreciate that their major resources are going to be concentrated on that. I think the attitude of wanting to give us something new every week is fantastic.
Yeah, lesser candy while they work on the big honking box of chocolates (database) is OK by me.
I don't know about anyone else but I am getting so fed up with the dash. I would like to sort it into Reviews, Blogs and other stuff. The other stuff is getting me down, endless updates of pages read, books free on Amazon today, books added, books read. I just want to read stuff. I don't want to lose the updaters/adders/promoters of free Kindle product because I want to read their reviews and blogs and see their cat pics, I just want to be able to opt out of the rest.
I like GR's way of top friends and also of being able to choose what updates to see in the feed.
Another feature I want is to be able to see everything on BookLikes, a rolling dash of everyone. I can't be bothered with that Explore page, it just doesn't do it for me.
That Explore is useless. I've complained about it numerous times but I imagine it isn't an easy fix. They should just do away with it for now because it highlights people who haven't updated in months.
Ms Bubbles SockieP wrote: "I don't know about anyone else but I am getting so fed up with the dash. I would like to sort it into Reviews, Blogs and other stuff. The other stuff is getting me down, endless updates of pages re..."It wouldn't fix being able to customize what you do and don't want to see, but you could try setting it to show "reviews" instead of "all posts" for a while, if you need a little break.
The reviews means I miss all the cat pics that Derrolyn Anderson posts all the time. I can't miss those!
Yeah, it stinks not being able to customize. I have the same issue with GR too though. I want to see reviews from all friends and following, but status updates only from top friends. There's no way to customize for that. Maybe booklikes will surpass GR with customization eventually.
Stacia (queen of double standards) wrote: "Yeah, it stinks not being able to customize. I have the same issue with GR too though. I want to see reviews from all friends and following, but status updates only from top friends. There's no way..."Well at least they are open to what people want. GR is only open to suggestions that move the site more towards an author marketplace these days.
I've been checking out ThirdScribe today. That's a site for following authors (who want to be allowed pseudonyms so they can sock puppet themselves probably).
Not impressed with that at the first glance.
I can't figure out ThirdScribe at all. What are we supposed to do with it? Will it only work for living authors? An awfully lot of my books are from authors no longer living.
Reading the FAQs, it seems that you find a book you like and you can follow it, it becomes a group. You can post comments and reviews, and it is moderated by the author (who may have another name so you won't know it is the author commenting, been there, done that...)It isn't meant for book cataloging or dead authors. It is meant to attract a vast number of authors who will pay $50 a year and then be able to sell their books direct.
I think the object is to become a huge SPA and publisher site where authors can feature all their books and people will go to read about the book and what the author has to say. I can't say it is of any interest to me at all.
I also note that Rob, whose site it is, was all too happy to reply to an author and help her change her name to something more anonymous, but won't reply to me about whether authors are allowed to have an author account and a member account in different names.
Frankly, I'm not impressed.
Somewhere in reading all the recent notifications I thought I saw that Booklikes now has an ipad app. I've searched the site, re-read the posts but can't see how to get this app. Am I just being dense or imaging things?
Write to BookLikes, they are very responsive.
I think the booklikes app is just a book scanner without a lot of features yet.
I have country internet, in other words terribly slow and very limited. My issue is that Booklikes takes so long to load. It's a task in itself just getting onto my dashboard, let alone looking at updates and reviews. I haven't been on for a while for that reason. I have also lost my enthusiasm for reviewing on any of the sites. I usually settle for a rating, if that. And after being trolled on an amazon review the other day I've been deleting them to avoid the fuss...
What happened on Amazon? I reviewed there until a local author had all her low rated reviews deleted by Amazon, then I thought fuck this, what's the point?
A fundamental Christian commenting on a review concerning fatalism and prophecy. At least I'm pretty sure that's what he was. I think he was fishing for a reply to his comment, but I just can't be bothered anymore. I only posted the review as I really enjoyed the book and it had no reviews what so ever. I've come to the same conclusion, what is the point?
I like reviewing on Goodreads because sometimes it leads to a load of interesting comments. Blogs, but not reviews, do that on BL. Nothing engenders conversation on LM, or at least not yet.
Interesting is fine, but sometimes it's just painful. On one review on GR I was caught between an outraged fundamental Christian (who wrote her comment completely in caps lock, and with four or more exclamation marks) and a grumpy, arrogant Satanist. It was briefly amusing, but I opted out of that one too. :D
I was a target of fundamental Christians and Muslims. It got old. I kittenized them, they mostly disappeared leaving me with just the crazy trolls who "know" the real meaning of a book and it isn't what I have written in my review so therefore I am .... .... .... (loads of different insults).
I'm constantly amazed at how people react to reading other people's opinions about books. The ultra religious (fundamental anythings) seem to be the worst. It's as if their faith is somehow threatened by it. Very strange indeed. But then again I remember reading a discussion on GR about the novel Perfume, in which one person accused the other of being a perverted, sick human being, for loving the book. It's a wild wild world out there, and the internet is nuttier than all of it combined. :D
There is an author insisting that people who don't like her books, trolls, are mentally ill. And there is going to be a law against it. She thinks librarians are doing their best to keep these people under control. It's quite funny.https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
"Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard." — Daphne Du MaurierAbused...And she's a STGRB supporter? I thought they had died out. They just don't stop coming, do they? If they can't distance themselves from their work enough they shouldn't be here, or in the internet book world at all--at least not unsupervised.
I recently had to ask an author to desist in pitching her book in the intro thread of a group I mod. She just wouldn't give in, kept coming back with comments. She made it very clear that the reason she had joined the group was to promote and talk about her book. After several active members tried to explain the issue, and why she should listen, the author stormed off, wishing bad karma on all of us for being such nasty people. Charming. But then again she was the one in a hundred in that group to behave like that. Maybe it's the nature of the group itself but trolling and crap doesn't really go on.
I have lost all patience with author melt downs though. I have stopped self publishing myself as I'd rather go back to banging my head against the gates of the Big Six than do it this way. It's just sordid. Used car salesmen tactics. Paid for reviews. Belligerent lawsuit threats against 'negative' reviewers. Nope. Not my cup of tea, thanks all the same. I don't want to be a part of it.
Re-reads and some other options are now added (see http://blog.booklikes.com/post/796155... for the official Thursday Candy announcement).I haven't gotten in to play with the all the shelf goodies it sounds like they added but it all looks good even if still not the database I am jonesing for ...
What is the difference between shelves and statuses? TIA :)
I like that I can make book order "sticky," and a new free page design is always nice. (I like the new one a lot, actually.)
Does someone know if we can import our files from BL?
Jennifer (Still crazy after all these years) wrote: "What is the difference between shelves and statuses? TIA :)"Shelves are like regular shelves and statuses are like exclusive shelves on goodreads as near as I can make out with "read" "planning to read" and "currently reading" preset statuses you cannot change.
On booklikes, I still have to work at it to get the green "status" box when viewing a book to say "on shelf" instead of read, planning..., or currently.... Even after shelving it on another status or exclusive shelf. They have some work to do.
Sakura Yue Michaelis wrote: "Does someone know if we can import our files from BL?"Not yet that I know of. And last I heard, not even being considered until a book database was put in place.
I wrote a novella's length of requests :D