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Thanks everyone for the kind messages. I'm starting to feel better now. I was really sick for 4 days with fever, muscles aches, headache, my leg..."
It's been a variety of symptoms, mostly mild...
Sometimes, I can't tell if symptoms are covid/cold related, or just normal aches and pains... I have a fair bit of arthritis in fingers and knees from joint popping and damage does jogging on uneven surfaces at my weight... and it IS that cold time of year...
My sore throat / cough comes and goes, had a bit of congestion, mild fever early on, used my massager alot on my back, but I think some it was just from laying about so much while not feeling great...
Hopefully I'm getting better... I KNOW what I had in 2020 was like 10x worse... I still have vague memories of THAT fun...
Some of my weakness has been undereating, I think... half the time I've only ate one meal a day... trying to fix that today...
Saar, glad to hear you are recovering. Iain, eat healthy.
Timelord Iain wrote: "Saar The Book owl wrote: "I hope it's just a cold, Iain, how are you feeling?
Thanks everyone for the kind messages. I'm starting to feel better now. I was really sick for 4 days with fever, muscl..."
Yeah, it these days, even a mild cold sets panic alarms everywhere and getting older does not help.
I remember being 20, spending all winter in t-shirts and a light jacket and not being sick. Now someone sneezes in my street and i get a cold......without leaving the house
Thanks everyone for the kind messages. I'm starting to feel better now. I was really sick for 4 days with fever, muscl..."
Yeah, it these days, even a mild cold sets panic alarms everywhere and getting older does not help.
I remember being 20, spending all winter in t-shirts and a light jacket and not being sick. Now someone sneezes in my street and i get a cold......without leaving the house
@ Saar & Iain: Hope you both feel better soon, guys! I've had a cold for the last couple of days - that's been bad enough!
I hope you feel better soon, Iain, and healthy food can do a lot of things.
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Tammie made me aware of the change a week or 2 ago... I've tried to adjust, but I hate it...
I finally went ahead and wrote a long-winded feedback thing in their feedback page about all the things I hate about it, and how they moved the information I could see at a glance so far away, and enlarged all the things I don't care about (book image, shelf names, recommendations), and hid all the text I cared about behind MORE buttons after like 2-3 lines of text... (now that the popup is gone, the only way to find the feedback link is from the Help Page about the new book page)
https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/...
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Tammie made me aware of the change a week or 2 ago... I've tried t..."
It's truly annoying. Now I feel like I have to click 5 things just to get to the editions page. Also the reviews are so low down while the fact that I'm "currently reading" is apparently important enough that it takes up a ton of space.
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Tammie made me aware of the change a week or..."
"What do YOU Think?" and 5 enormous stars to rate takes up half a page now... seriously?
Timelord Iain wrote: "I hate the new book page layout... clearly designed to optimize space for mobile and fill empty space on PC, one size fits all...Tammie made me aware of the change a week or 2 ago... I've tried t..."
I hate it as well; a friend posted a review of the second book in a series recently. I clicked on the book to see what the first book was called (with an eye to adding it to my TBR) and couldn't because it took me to the stupid 'new book' page; the old page was/is much better.
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Oh same. My first reaction was to try to zoom out the actually SEE anything! All the white space, oversized pictures, and forcing you to click to see what used to be at a glance! Burying elements down at the bottom of the page instead of in the sidebar. I hate it.
Yanique wrote: "It's truly annoying. Now I feel like I have to click 5 things just to get to the editions page. Also the reviews are so low down while the fact that I'm "currently reading" is apparently important enough that it takes up a ton of space..."All the extra clicking is so annoying. I used to just scroll down to see everything I wanted to see. Also the tags like the apps have, I hate them! And I can't click and give something a star rating the way used to.
Timelord Iain wrote: "I gave feedback, but doubt they'll listen... GR staff doesn't care... I swear they're trying to kill the site..."Since they are owned by Amazon now, no they don't, and I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted to kill it so we all have to use Amazon for everything.
Timelord Iain wrote: "I hate the new book page layout... clearly designed to optimize space for mobile and fill empty space on PC, one size fits all...Tammie made me aware of the change a week or 2 ago... I've tried t..."
I liked the smaller book cover photos that I could click on and make bigger if I wanted. Now they are stuck a size in between.
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They've also sent out an email to say they're removing the favourite authors list from our profile pages from 1st September. I wonder why that is, they've given no rationale for it at all... it doesn't make any sense. And it's a shame cos it's quite a nice little thing to check out when you add a friend.
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Yeah, I noticed that. It's interesting.
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So I watched King Arthur: Legend of the Sword last night (Guy Ritchie film), and one thing that was bugging me, is that they were pronouncing "Mage" as in cage with a M. Whereas, I've always assumed that it's the same as badge with a M. How does everyone else say it?
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Never heard it any other way.
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Never heard it any other way."
you mean sage isn't pronounced sadge? ;) (if clueless, that's one of the ways people say sad, these days, in meme/game/etc chats)
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🤣🤣🤣
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Yanique wrote: "That meme language is all the radge these days 😩🤣🤣🤣"
You're KILLING me with this 🤣
Yanique wrote: "Pronounced like cage, along the same lines as Sage.Never heard it any other way."
This is actually news to me! Lol. I can't believe I never knew this...
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pronounced life the first 3 letters of gift? or like Jif peanut butter?
:D
Gift! I think xD And it's definitely Mage rhyming with Sage! XD
Hard g! I refuse to believe otherwise ;D
Timelord Iain wrote: "I hate the new book page layout... clearly designed to optimize space for mobile and fill empty space on PC, one size fits all...Tammie made me aware of the change a week or 2 ago... I've tried t..."
Adding a second format was slightly more muddled up. It does feel like what took you a couple clicks now takes 5 more!
Oh, and totally Mage rhymes with Sage. >_<
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At least I'm well versed at checking for unread discussions with the discussion button, when needed these days, too...
I noticed that too. I'm glad the discussions button seems to always work :D
Looks like notifications are starting to catch up now.
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I've never seen another website with notifications broken so often.
None of my GR notifications work and haven't worked for weeks. Super frustrating :/
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If you're not logged into goodreads, the book pages use the old layout... WHY would they punish us users like that?
Timelord Iain wrote: "I just learned the most painful thing...If you're not logged into goodreads, the book pages use the old layout... WHY would they punish us users like that?"
Really? How frustrating!
I (thankfully) started getting to old layout on my laptop, but still have to suffer the abomination on my phone. I've heard mixed reports of some accounts switching back on certain platforms, so I can only hope for some reprieve.
If I log on from my home laptop, I get the old format; if I log on from my work laptop or my ipad, I get the grotesque new version.
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I feel like mine is random! I always use Google Chrome but from some computers its the new and others its the old. 🤷♀️
I seem to be back to the old book pages again. I'm sure it's just to tease me. I fully expect the awful new ones to be back soon. I left feedback about the new book pages to let them know what I don't like about them.
I seem to be the only one who has not seen the new book pages at all.
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The book is alot bigger, and follows you down the page... alot of useful info is hidden in collapsed sections... the Q&As and Discussions are all at the bottom, and you can't even preview without another page load... it's pretty shitty in general...
Timelord Iain wrote: "count yourself lucky...The book is alot bigger, and follows you down the page... alot of useful info is hidden in collapsed sections... the Q&As and Discussions are all at the bottom, and you can..."
That sounds AWFUL!!!
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Thanks everyone for the kind messages. I'm starting to feel better now. I was really sick for 4 days with fever, muscles aches, headache, my legs felt weird and walking was just painful...I pretty much couldn't do a thing. Even reading didn't work. Now, I feel better, still having an annoying cough and still very tired. Some food/coffee taste weird too.