[answered] New book page doesn't show recent edits immediately

[Shim]

The updated book page with the new design no longer updates the information immediately after editing the book details.

E.g. I change the publication date or author, and hit save, then go back to the book details. Even if I refresh a bunch or even if I open the book page in a new browser or a private browser window, the updated details still take a while to show up.

This is fairly annoying as it's useful to check that the edits I just made are working.

It used to happen immediately before the page was redesigned.

Is there any workaround?

[Scott]

Please send comments to support:

https://www.goodreads.com/about/conta...

[Shim]

Yea thanks, I did try that, they weren't very helpful. Was hoping someone here had a workaround.

[Emily]

Shim wrote: "Yea thanks, I did try that, they weren't very helpful. Was hoping someone here had a workaround."

When I wasn't sure I have clicked on edit again just to make sure it was changed. In almost every email, Support mentions the cache time so I don't think they have anything else to add.

[lethe]

Shim wrote: "Yea thanks, I did try that, they weren't very helpful. Was hoping someone here had a workaround."

How would we have a workaround? We cannot influence the cache on the book page.

[Arenda]

It depends what details of a book were changed. Some details are visible on the "all editions" page of that book. I don't think the "all editions" page is cached like the book page.

[Scott]

I notice that the title changes immediately but the author does not. Which makes it hard to know if we've moved it to the correct profile.

[Moloch]

Yes, the new book page is awful for many reasons and this is one of them.

[Shim]

> How would we have a workaround? We cannot influence the cache on the book page

I don't know. Maybe there's some known page to go to that will show the correct information after the edits. Maybe some trick to refreshing the local cache. Maybe there's a way to disable the redesign. I don't know why the redesign caused this to break. It's worth a shot to ask.

[Shim]

Scott wrote: "I notice that the title changes immediately but the author does not. Which makes it hard to know if we've moved it to the correct profile."

Yea agreed

[Lieke]

Arenda wrote: "It depends what details of a book were changed. Some details are visible on the "all editions" page of that book. I don't think the "all editions" page is cached like the book page."

I also use the all "editions page" or if I changed the author or title I also use the "combine editions" from the edit page, it also isn't cached like the book page.