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[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

When I dropped by to reacquaint myself with one of my old reviews of a Bernard Cornwell book, I noticed this: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...

'other editions' seems to be now displayed in the book's info and 'readers also enjoyed' are now up where 'other editions' used to be in the top right corner.

I preferred it the previous way. With the 'other readers enjoyed' further down on the right.

[Bryn]

I noticed that today and didn't know where I was. I don't give such priority to 'also enjoyeds' ... I think I'd rather see 'books by' staring at me.

[Darcy]

All these little creeping up from behind changes are all adding up to one thing - this is turning into an advert site. Not pleased at all by the continued forced marketing.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I don't like it either.
Those 'Other Editions' displayed prominently have saved me many times from buying books I already have or have read. Since Commonwealth books get a differnt title so often in the US.

I look at Readers Also Enjoyed, but it has less interest to me than the editions.

I looked in the Goodreads Feedback Group and it turns out only members of The feedback group get to see this feature in beta. So they can get feedback on it.

So if anyone doesn't like it and you are in the Feedback Group, I would advise expressing your opinion here: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

[[deleted user]]

Darcy wrote: "All these little creeping up from behind changes are all adding up to one thing - this is turning into an advert site. Not pleased at all by the continued forced marketing."

Ditto

[Bryn]

Darcy wrote: "All these little creeping up from behind changes are all adding up to one thing - this is turning into an advert site."

Ah, that's why I don't like it. It's marketing. -- I knew I didn't like it.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

marketing phobes. :D

[Dawn]

I still have the old version for awhile. Whoever belongs to the feedback group is getting a preview, the rest of us have to wait.

[Jane]

I wondered if I'm missing something; I saw no changes. I'm glad you feedback people are alerting us to what is coming along the pike.

[Dawn]

I was wondering what was going on too, thought I would mention it in case others were confused too. :)

[Darcy]

Terri wrote: "marketing phobes. :D"

I should get a T-shirt and wear it proudly. :D

[Jane]

Rats!!! we suspected that when Amazon became involved, things would change and perhaps not always for the better...

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Dawn wrote: "I was wondering what was going on too, thought I would mention it in case others were confused too. :)"


I mentioned the Feedback group thing in post..um..3334 or something like that.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

For those not in the Feedback Group and who are also curious to see what some of us are seeing..it looks like this.

[[deleted user]]

That Elizabeth(Alaska) is something else.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

lol :)

[Jane]

This is miserable! I've gotten used to the way it is now; why "fix" it if it ain't broke? It's too cluttered and you're overwhelmed with stuff the new way. "Improvements"?--wrong choice of noun!

[Anne]

George Zimmerman has been acquitted. Thank God!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Jane wrote: "This is miserable! I've gotten used to the way it is now; why "fix" it if it ain't broke? It's too cluttered and you're overwhelmed with stuff the new way. "Improvements"?--wrong choice of noun!"

I find it cluttered too. I think they think people NEED lots of images and they don't. Maybe those who will join from Amazon may be used to lots of images. But there are people already here and who join everyday because of the text rich interface.

[Jane]

They have plenty of images as it is right now. And--don't make them all the same size; vary them the way it is now. Curiosity:I wonder what the percentage of people who join from Amazon will be. And how many present GR members have joined because of Amazon?

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

There was, apparently, a huge influx after the Amazon purchase announcement.
I imagine it will go through the roof if Amazon start adding a click button on its book pages for Goodreads.

I know how they will promote Amazon here (by having it so you can log in with your Amazon account) but I don't know yet how it works the other way. Or even if Amazon will promote GR on their site at all.

[Jane]

Oh, good grief, I don't even have an Amazon account. I guess I'll worry about that if/when it happens. "Sufficient unto the day..."

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Don't worry. It will be like Facebook now. You won't need an Amazon account.
Anyone who does have an Amazon account will be able to log in through it.
Anyone without one, or who does not want to log in with Amazon, will be able to log in like we do now. Just a normal log in.

[Jane]

Great!! Good to hear!!

[Jane]

If GR is "down for maintenance" I wish they had a set schedule and would tell us, so we could plan accordingly. Yes, I know, sometimes emergencies do come up...

[C.P.]

Terri wrote: "other editions' seems to be now..."

I discovered this by accident: tap/click on the cover image, and "Other editions" appears.

What, you didn't intuit that? You lack ESP or something? ;-)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

C.P. wrote: "Terri wrote: "other editions' seems to be now..."

I discovered this by accident: tap/click on the cover image, and "Other editions" appears.

What, you didn't intuit that? You lack ESP or somethin..."

I know. Crazy. Haha. Who is going to ever find that unless by accident!

[Darcy]

The only way I would have found it was to enlarge the cover for a better look at it. Will we even be able to do that anymore? I mean sometimes I want to be able to tell if the abs are real or painted on, or sometimes I can't even tell what the cover really is until its larger. This change gives me agita.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

The only reason I knew it was there was because I saw it in the image GR posted in Feedback.
The image I then posted in message 3344.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Saw this announcement in Goodreads Feedback and thought I would share it so members can expect the site to go out for an hour.

Hey all,

We just wanted to let you know that there will be a planned site outage tonight for some necessary database maintenance. The outage will begin at 10 PM Pacific Time and will last about an hour. We apologize for any inconvenience, and appreciate your patience.

[Jane]

Thanks, Terri, I appreciate the warning.
An online game I used to play [and has been defunct for a couple of years], used to warn us as your note above.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

You are welcome. It is such a pain when they don't announce outages.
On the rare occasion that they do, and I chance upon the announcement, I will let you all know.

[happy]

Thx Terri - It's good to know you are looking out for us :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I gots ya backs! :D

[Bobby]

Yes you do...and have for quite a while now.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

:D

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Well, we seem to have survived. The outage is over.

[Jane]

Whew!!! I see no changes to the site--yet!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Me neither. I hunted for changes straight away. But we have come away unscathed.....I think....

[Jane]

So far...

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Haha. Yep!

[Darcy]

The one notable change that I've seen is that my update list is now as long as it was prior to the previous downtime when they made the changes to the book page. In between, I only had 5 or so updates until I got that more updates button.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Hmm..mine looks the same. I always remember a lot of updates. Maybe your top friends weren't leaving many updates. :-)

[Bryn]

Darcy wrote: "The one notable change that I've seen is that my update list is now as long as it was prior to the previous downtime when they made the changes to the book page. In between, I only had 5 or so upda..."

Oh, mine too. That short updates list was annoying. You only got about an hour's worth without asking to 'see more'.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

That's odd. I wonder why mine seemed longer even before the outage...

[Darcy]

I've never listed anyone as a top friend. All my friends' updates are equally important to me :D

(that and I read early on in my membership that top friend updates includes their friends' updates and I thought that could get out of control and chose not to test the theory)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Ha. No, Top Friends don't include their friends' updates.
I can't have everyone's updates. If I had everyone as a top friend I wouldn't see the updates of the people I interact with regularly. :-)

[Bryn]

All my friends are top friends...
er, except one or two; I like them; but they 'like' massive picture-posts daily and put the screeching brakes on my updates feed. We can still be friends, I just resort to 'untopping' them.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I hate those damn moving gifs and big pictures. That is one reason some of the folks on my friends list aren't top friends.

I also take off the people that are nice to talk to, but are constantly adding dozens of books to their tbrs. Sometimes my entire updates will be taken up with a long list of random books that person has added. If I add a massive amount of books to my tbr I always unclick the 'add to updates' box so I don't fill up peoples updates page with all my adds.

[Bryn]

I unclick that 'add to updates' quite often. Even too often, it's a habit.

Began when a friend unfriended me, early on -- we didn't fall out, I assume I was too active. He was from my Shakespeare group and had no earthly interest in histfic. So, trivial posts or whenever I feel I talk too much, unclick.