I love the “never show me” feature, and I was happy to X away a particular author, but now their upcoming book is being displayed to me as a featured giveaway.
The giveaway does link to the book page, so it would be great if “never” included the giveaways.
When using the personalized similar books feature, there is a bug.
Expected behavior: personalized similar books list is the same for the same book across different editions (or at least similar).
Actual behavior: personalized similar books list may be empty for user added editions.
Example:
Typical book edition has a complete personalized similar books list:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/4c79a0ce-4dbb-4947-ba2d-bcfdff5cbc6c
For a user added edition of the exact same book, the personalized similar books list is empty:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/9fc79c37-f975-4681-b5b2-780bd5e83eab
As a participant in a buddy read, I expect that when I click "reply" on a comment, whether it's a top level comment or a reply itself, my comment is nested as a reply to that comment, so that I can follow the threads of conversation.
For example, I'm in a buddy read right now and all replies to the comment I made at 100% and replies to any sub-comments are displayed in time order (I assume). The interesting thing is that they do get displayed properly nested at the time of creation, but after reloading the view they are no longer correct. I can provide a link to the buddy read in question if that's useful, thanks!
HI there! I'm loving the new stats options in the plus package! Of course I had to check it out immediately.... I noticed that when you're looking at the stats for Fiction/Non-fiction, it still shows you the pie chart with % of reads that are Fiction/Non-fiction: in this case both are at 100%. It would make sense just not to show this pie-chart, just like the language bar graph is omitted if all the read books are in one language.
Thanks for the great work!
When adding a book, the author field requires 3 characters to search the database. This has caused me issues when adding Korean books as some names only consist of 2 syllables (which are counted as two characters). I can add them as a new author since that field does not have a character limit but I expect that that would create duplicates each time I add one of their books.
Not sure if I'm doing anything wrong but when I mark books as finished in the order I read them in, they don't always show up in that exact order under "Books read". So the last book I finished might show up as the second last book. I have tried removing the book and marking it as read to see if that will help it show up in the right order but it doesn't chance anything. I find it especially annoying when I read a series in order and the order changes under "Books read".
Hope it makes sense.
I changed one of my read books from the digital edition to paperback. But the number of digital books in my pie chart hasn’t changed. Even though when I click on it, that book no longer shows up on the list.
I tried to use TSG's affiliate link to buy Dear Henry, Love Edith by Becca Kinzer, but I got a 403 forbidden error on Libro.fm's site! Obviously you don't have much control over this, but maybe check the affiliate link is working properly?
Hi!
The time stamps on replies for buddy read comments seem to be wrong.
The always show up at xx minutes even if they were made several days ago.
I would add a screenshot, but the browser wouldn't let me.
I wanna go to track the progress on an audiobook and only gives me the option to track it in percentage. It used to allow me to track it in either minutes or percentage. Just like it does with the pages. Maybe I'm missing something.
When tracking my progress in a book on the Home page in the iOS app, the progress simply doesn’t upgrade. I have to refresh the page and only then does it go through.
Hi, I found myself needing to backtrack my reading/listening logs. Once done with it tho, the streak numbers haven’t been updated accordingly, but it’s still showing instead the data as if what I didn’t record on its date didn’t happen, even after refreshing the page and closing/reopening the app.
When I'm looking through the community news feed, when I get to the bottom it often just loads in the same things that are above. It doesn't happen every time, but I haven't noticed anything in particular that leads to it happening.
The last few times I tried to import books it never seems to work. I get the "requires more time" message and then the failure message. I was not having the trouble before. And while some of them have been obscure, some are eBook versions of very popular trade paperbacks.
Sometime in the last couple weeks or month the quality of my recommendations has really gone down.
I used to see many books that looked interesting, but now I'd say that about 95% are books that I have absolutely zero interest in reading. I've tried clicking the X to not include the book, but it just gets replaced with another book that I'm not interested in.
The books that are showing up are largely self published books or books from like 30+ years ago. And they often have less than 5 reviews and the few reviews only have like a single word like "Awesome".
I don't necessarily have problem with old books or even self-published books, but I'm not very interested in being a guinea pig. So it's kind of annoying when most of my recommendations consist of self-published/old and very obscure books.
This is a guess, but I suspect there may be some fake accounts that are flooding Storygraph with fake reviews.
For instance, this books is showing up on my recommendations:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/872a8ea1-d3ed-4304-8a01-c834c6a2ea03
I have no idea why this is showing up on my recommendations because it's not something I would ever read. But clicking on the user that wrote the one review:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/diffendale
Currently lists the user with 18 currently reading books and 241 recently read books that just seem random...
Here's another user I found through a recommendation for this book (again not one I'd be interested in): https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b122357c-9153-4e74-bffc-88e118aac692
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/msmiz95
Again lots of books being currently read. About 5000 books recently read and 8000 on the to read list, which seems to be pretty random.
It's almost like the 5 stars are fairly popular and the other lists consist of fairly random books.
It seems that every single account I looked for these recommendations was very similar. They had 5 star reviews for reasonably popular books and then a bunch of random books in their other to read, recently read books, and currently reading.
When making an entry using the Track Progress feature, if a user makes an error and selects the wrong type of progress (percentage vs pages), the user must change the value in the Read Status Progress Number field before they can switch the Progress Type value. If the user switches the Progress Type value without changing the Read status Progress Number value, the Save button accepts the entry, but doesn't switch the Progress Type value.
BEB of bug: https://app.birdeatsbug.com/sessions/Cc-5Ivt1VPqPTlJDCwMK-mlc2U-rvRGDEUd8QNUgaTga
When reviewing Stats I have it broken down to 2 Languages both English
When copy-pasting tab-separated values from a spreadsheet to the search field (e.g.author [tab] title), the input gets correctly parsed as "author title" for the autocomplete suggestions as you type.
However, if you press "enter," the space between the two gets disregarded entirely, and no match is found for "authortitle".
Would it be possible to convert any empty [tab] to a [space] in the search field?
(I verified this behaviour on Safari and Chrome on Mac OS, both logged in and logged out.)
I'm attaching screenshots in case my explanation was unclear!
Not sure if anyone has this problem but when adding a book that has not been added to my to-read list and I click "add to up-next" the book ends up in the top of the earliest added rather than latest added.
It works as expected though when adding the book into to-read before adding it into up-next.
I’m not sure if this is a bug but if I add a book I’ve previously read to a prompt, it gets marked complete, even if the books marked “currently reading” or “to read”. Is there any way to change this? If not no worries.
I’ve noticed that since the update it’s not possible to switch editions of a book on the iOS app
Any time I go to the profile part of the app it just shows a white, blank screen.
Hey!
Love the new dark mode.
Some small “glitches” in it where white shows up on holding screens:
When you pull down on a page, the “background” behind the main page shows up as white
When you launch the app on your phone (eg for the first time in the day) the screen with the logo on it shows up in white, and the loading screen that follows is also white
When you move between pages - eg between profile page and home page - sometimes you get a loading screen flash up and it’s white too
Steps:
Result - The dropdown has white text on a white background.
Expected - The background of the dropdown is dark to match the theme
Notes: