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[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Sarah wrote: "Is anyone else experiencing problems with the add book/author feature in comments? I'm finding that some books are coming up as normal with the title search, but at least half I needed to add came ..."

No I haven't Sarah - I'll try your book for you. Gather the Bones by Alison Stuart

No trouble. I put in 'gather the bones alison' and then clicked search.

[Sarah]

Brenda wrote: "No I haven't Sarah - I'll try your book for you. Gather the Bones by Alison Stuart

No trouble. I put in 'gather the bones alison' and then clicked search."

I was using an identical composite search and was getting nothing - obviously just a bug in the code. Switching off then on again did the trick!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

That's good Sarah - there's nothing worse!!

[Meg]

This is happening to me now Sarah! It just started this afternoon, on both my phone and computer. Is anyone else having issues?

[Sarah]

Meg wrote: "This is happening to me now Sarah! It just started this afternoon, on both my phone and computer. Is anyone else having issues?"

Hi Meg - yes, it's happening to me again, today, too! It seems to be fixed by closing the browser and re-opening. It's a real pain in the neck though. I just did a search for "All the President's Men", which is a pretty well-known book and Goodreads couldn't find it on the regular search!

[Meg]

Closing and opening isn't working for me. I've had some books i can't find, but if i search for the author they are in the authors page. Other books come up as normal. Very annoying!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Yes it's now an issue. I've found by putting the ISBN in, it finds it. The only problem with that is finding the book to find the ISBN. If you don't have the book in your possession, go to amazon and get the ISBN or ASIN there :)

[Helen]

Is any one else not getting their daily email at the moment I haven't gotten one for about three days now :(

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

I don't request emails but I have noticed I am only getting some of my notifications Helen.

[Helen]

Phrynne wrote: "I don't request emails but I have noticed I am only getting some of my notifications Helen."

I am getting other notifications it is just my daily one that is missing I like checking through that of a morning hopefully they fix it soon :(

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

The daily one arrived about 10 minutes ago Helen :)

[Helen]

I will check soon

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

I have now received 3 of those emails Helen, including the one I first mentioned :)

[Helen]

Brenda wrote: "I have now received 3 of those emails Helen, including the one I first mentioned :)"

I have as well :)

[Sarah]

This isn't really a "biggie" in the scheme of things, but I've found the "Compare books" function in friend requests hasn't been working for a couple of days now, delivering a "Page Unavailable" error when accessed.

I always use the "compare books" link when I'm considering new friend requests - I've become a bit wary of all those creepy "Hello" messages!

[Sarah]

P.S. my current request lists his "physical characteristics" and blood type on his profile page...

[PattyMacDotComma]

Sarah wrote: "P.S. my current request lists his "physical characteristics" and blood type on his profile page..."

Ewww. . . I think.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Sarah wrote: "P.S. my current request lists his "physical characteristics" and blood type on his profile page..."

Gross! Block him Sarah!

[Suz]

Sarah wrote: "This isn't really a "biggie" in the scheme of things, but I've found the "Compare books" function in friend requests hasn't been working for a couple of days now, delivering a "Page Unavailable" er..."

My compare function works.. but I've been deleting and blocking lots of 'hello' messages - and now have to be much more discerning.. you probably know what I mean.

[Suz]

Sarah wrote: "P.S. my current request lists his "physical characteristics" and blood type on his profile page..."

Yes, don't accept and block. You may also find friends that haven't been online for years. I've been doing some cleaning up..

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Suzanne wrote: "Sarah wrote: "This isn't really a "biggie" in the scheme of things, but I've found the "Compare books" function in friend requests hasn't been working for a couple of days now, delivering a "Page U..."

I just leave the request hanging - that way they can't request again :)

[PattyMacDotComma]

Brenda wrote: "Suzanne wrote: "Sarah wrote: "This isn't really a "biggie" in the scheme of things, but I've found the "Compare books" function in friend requests hasn't been working for a couple of days now, deli..."

Oooo sneaky, Brenda! Thanks for the tip. 😉

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

:)

[Colin]

I had an interesting occurance. I looked at my 'following list' and saw quite a few people with 'pending friend request' - I deleted this, then resent and got some responses. None of them say they received the first friend request.
Gremlins do exist in the GRs system, eh?

And here I was thinking they were ignoring me...

CB

[Niamh]

I've been experiencing a bug recently, where I have to sign in almost every day, despite ticking "keep me signed in" every time this happens. It's not a major problem, but I have been caught out a couple times where I return to an open tab and try to edit a comment or update my progress, and I need to sign in, and when I do, I've lost my place, I'm back at the home screen. Anyone else been experiencing this lately? I'm using Chrome on my phone, with Goodreads in Web View so I can more easily edit challenge posts.

[Clare]

Yes. It's annoying me so much. I wondered if GR was doing it on purpose to make me download the app. I refuse to comply 😬 i'm using phone web browser in web view too

[Janelle]

Yes happening to me too. Very annoying!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Just discussing this in another group. Another of GR's hiccups I'm guessing! Even ticking the 'leave me logged on' box doesn't make any difference! Very frustrating!

[Colin]

Yep - having sale issues. Gremlins are running around. CB

[Kylie]

Niamh wrote: "I've been experiencing a bug recently, where I have to sign in almost every day, despite ticking "keep me signed in" every time this happens. It's not a major problem, but I have been caught out a ..."

Yes, same issue, I've been having this issue for a while now.

[Sarah]

I've also had this issue - I'd thought it was just me, as I recently did a big update of Chrome, but apparently not... Super annoying, though!

I've also had a couple of occasions where GR has required me to complete a Captcha with every single tweak I make to a review I'm writing (which for me is a lot of tweaking!), and occasionally the Captcha isn't visible but GR won't let me proceed without completing it. The requirement to do the Captchas seems fairly ad hoc - is anyone else getting them? Maybe it's set off by an algorithm that sees a user writing too many reviews in a set period or making too many amendments?

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

I've read a few people having that issue too Sarah! I'd be a shame if they didn't notify us of work which would affect the 'normal' run of GR!

[Krystal]

Niamh wrote: "I've been experiencing a bug recently, where I have to sign in almost every day, despite ticking "keep me signed in" every time this happens. It's not a major problem, but I have been caught out a ..."

Yes! It's driving me nuts!!

[PattyMacDotComma]

Niamh wrote: "I've been experiencing a bug recently, where I have to sign in almost every day, despite ticking "keep me signed in" every time this happens. It's not a major problem, but I have been caught out a ..."

I usually use the laptop for reviewing, but even then I find I get signed out more often now. Perhaps they've gone overboard with stopping criminals from leaving secret messages or something!

[Clare]

PattyMacDotComma wrote: "I usually use the laptop for reviewing, but even then I find I get signed out more often now. Perhaps they've gone overboard with stopping criminals from leaving secret messages or something..."

Now I want to read these secret criminal messages 😈

[PattyMacDotComma]

Clare wrote: "PattyMacDotComma wrote: "I usually use the laptop for reviewing, but even then I find I get signed out more often now. Perhaps they've gone overboard with stopping criminals from leaving secret mes...
Now I want to read these secret criminal messages 😈"

Gotta look for those coded classified ads that tell spies where today's drop site is. 😉😎

[Janelle]

A new thing that’s annoying me is that when I click on a book now it’s going to beta first, and I have to click to leave it and even though I leave goodreads open in my browser it’s returning to beta after a while. I really hate the new look page so I’m finding it quite frustrating.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Oh I haven't come across that yet Janelle! I was dreading it - it's the same old 'why change something that's not broken' but they're determined!

[Sarah]

Anyone else experiencing issues saving reviews? After a whole lot of toing and froing whilst trying to save a review of The Island by Adrian McKinty, I eventually established that it was Goodreads own "add book/author" codes that were causing the save to fail, due to containing "blocked" content. With all the book / author links removed, it saves normally! (it hasn't escaped me that those same links are perfectly acceptable within this comment!)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

The only thing along a similar line was trying to add the blurb from Amazon to a book (with my librarian hat on) and it kept saying there was unacceptable content. I ended up leaving it with no blurb, which is a pet hate!! I'd say it's another GR glitch Sarah!

[PattyMacDotComma]

Mabel🍎💜 wrote: "I get alot or GR glitches too, happier to give the book some stars though, not give a review. everyone is different, reviews get noisy and feel bad commenting on authors years of research and toili..."

I agree that everyone is different, Mabel, which is why I actually prefer reviews over just stars. Even my own stars probably vary, according to my mood when I was reading something, but at least if I explain my opinion, it might help others decide. I hope. 😊

[Sarah]

Brenda wrote: "The only thing along a similar line was trying to add the blurb from Amazon to a book (with my librarian hat on) and it kept saying there was unacceptable content. I ended up leaving it with no blu..."

Yes, I think you're right. I've been back in and inserted the links with no issues this morning. Very annoying at the time, though.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Sarah wrote: "Brenda wrote: "The only thing along a similar line was trying to add the blurb from Amazon to a book (with my librarian hat on) and it kept saying there was unacceptable content. I ended up leaving..."

Truly?? Unbelievable!

[Meg]

I'm having so many problems with the goodreads website. It doesn't let me save reviews, edit or post comments, search.... it just turns up a broken link. It has always happened occasionally, but now it is happening 90% of the time when I try. Does anyone else have this issue?

[Meg]

I've actually tried to post that question about 10 times and this is the first time it's worked!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

What are you using Meg? Laptop or....

[Meg]

Brenda wrote: "What are you using Meg? Laptop or...."

It seems to happen on both my phone and my computer. I access goodreads through Chrome. The app seems to work, but there's a lot you can't do on the app

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

The app is definitely not user friendly. I only use my laptop, although on my phone I can read and answer posts. But anything like reviews are always done on my laptop and thankfully I haven't had any problems. I also use Chrome.

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

I use my laptop and Chrome Meg. Your problem sounds as though it has more to do with you specifically. Perhaps Goodreads needs to be reloaded.
My only problem is an increased use of "I am not a robot". I hate those.

[PattyMacDotComma]

I use my laptop most of the time, too, but I haven't had any Robot queries. The first rule of computing I learned - must be 40 years ago now - is CDWT. Computers Do Weird Things. (includes all devices)