The app, the website, everything - in the last few weeks (~4-6) StoryGraph has become so slow that my phone and computer just time-out. Nothing loads correctly or sometimes at all. It's really frustrating as an avid, multi-year user. I have actually stopped recommending switching to StoryGraph from Goodreads to my friends and the customers I help at the Barnes and Noble where I work because I used to be able to say how easy and lovely the platform is and I feel like I really can't say that anymore because it just straight up doesn't work for me any more. I am constantly closing the app in frustration, waiting an hour, coming back and still the loading and speed issues are there. I hope this gets resolved quickly...

(and yes I have tried all the usual tricks, clearing cache, checking for app updates, etc. nothing has helped at all)

When I update my current reading progress and go to challenges I see that the stats are not updated.
Once I refresh the app the numbers update but they go quickly back.

Upon closing the app fully and restarting it all looks good.

Video attached.

I am using Google Pixel 62 - Android 16

When going into a specific genre or section under "recommendations" it takes a very long time to load before coming up with "Content Missing" on mobile and desktop.

It works under: Based On Recent Reads, Sci-Fi Picks, Horror Picks, LGBTQIA+ Picks, & Out of Your Comofrt Zone.

It doesn't work under: Based on Your Survey, Similar Users Loved, Romance Picks, or Fantasy Picks.

I don't know why it works under some and not others, but it makes it a hard to add recs quickly and mark the books/authors I don't want to see.

I've included screenshots of the ones that don't work from mobile and desktop.

So every time I go to a new page on TSG it makes me go through this page where it says it's verifying that I'm a human. It's annoying but not an overly big deal, but it just happened when I tried to click post after writing a review. The review got erased with no way of getting back to it because of this verification check page that popped up in the middle.

Using the Android app.

If I Save/Update a review with some content warnings selected, then immediately click Edit to make a change to my review, I see that each of the three Content Warning selection fields has been duplicated. If I Update again, then click Edit again, a third row appears for each of them. This appears to continue indefinitely.

Hi! If you reread a book, Storygraph counts it as a separate book, even if you are rereading the same edition of the book (i.e. has same ISBN number), which mistakenly brings up the total number of books that you've read. I've attached a screenshot of an example below (for context, I read this book first in 2023, and then more recently in 2025).

I wasn’t sure if it was by design, but on my Profile the topmost located Reading Journal button is a different color than the other buttons. This kinda throws me off because it looks like a clicked button and feels off to me visually.

(It’s also not as a big of a deal but it would be nice to only have one Reading Journal button rather than two so close to each other - there’s one in the section with the stats button as well as in the Currently Reading section just below it. It’s especially noticeable when I don’t have any books marked reading and feels repetitive.)

When I don’t have any books marked as reading, the Currently Reading section on my profile bumps right up against the section above it.

But when I mark a book as a reading, it returns to being evenly spaced.

I’ll add photos, thanks!

When I check a book's reviews on desktop web browser, if I click on the Spoiler tag to reveal it, it pushes any regular text below it out of the review's box. In order to read the rest of the review, I have to click on the Spoiler tag again to hide it.

This only happens when I go from a book's page > the scrolling list of reviews. It does not happen if I click on the direct link to a book review, then click the spoiler tag.

It was fixed temporarily, but the book URLS are not converting into title links anymore.

If you share a link to a book in social media platforms or in places like Slack, you used to get a little preview of the book name and description powered by either Open Graph meta tags or Twitter meta tags. However, those appear to have stopped working, at least on Slack and Discord, in the past week, or so.

If I navigate to a book page (eg, https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/dba55989-00a4-4727-af2d-3745ca8c5d0d) in my browser and view the source, I still see the meta tags in the HTML source. However, nothing is showing up when I share links in Slack or Discord.

I'm wondering if maybe Cloudflare is perhaps blocking these services from accessing the pages. If I curl these URLs, I get a 403 Forbidden error that appears to come from Cloudflare, so I'm wondering if maybe other services like Slack are also receiving this. Various OpenGraph checking tools also report getting nothing back (https://opengraph.dev/panel?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapp.thestorygraph.com%2Fbooks%2F9fcaffe0-7f5b-48a8-96b4-6a741cfdeb23), although Facebook's Official debugger (https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/) does return something, so maybe just Facebook's IPs are being allowed?

(The Facebook preview also includes an image preview, which hadn't seen before in Slack, but that would be exciting if that's now included!)

Thanks!

In many of the challenges I keep getting a "Content Missing" notice on many of the items in the challenge. I can refresh and sometimes it will load them, most times it will not.

After I finished a book and marked it read/logged the pages, I noticed that the line graph for 2025 year was not updating correctly.

The total under the graph title is correct but the chart is not reflecting the same information.

At first I thought I needed to give it time to catch up, and at one point it did update correctly. But then when I revisited it again a couple hours later it had reverted back to being incorrect again.

I’ve tried closing the app and refreshing the screen and cannot figure out what causes it to update correctly sometimes or why it reverts back to being incorrect other times.

for a few days, I have been encountering a weird bug where I'm unable to open some of my club's forums.

the message I get is the generic "We're sorry, something went wrong! 😔
Please try again later and email us at support@thestorygraph.com if the problem persists."

my account is a club member, not the owner.
the problem exists on pc in browser (firefox) and in the app.
I asked other users and they do not have the same problem.

I tried it with the club owner account and discovered this:
on my account, the post order is set to "descending". on the club owner account, it is "ascending" (because it keeps reverting back to that).
I can open the forum with the club owner account. it contains 3 pages of posts & replies.
if I try to change the post order to "descending" or try to go to page 2, I get the same bug.

these are the forums where I encountered the bug:

https://app.thestorygraph.com/book_clubs/a61251cd-ba25-4ec1-afa7-0b802d7009e5/forums/ff415184-6189-4eef-b970-3b77d847eb26
https://app.thestorygraph.com/book_clubs/a61251cd-ba25-4ec1-afa7-0b802d7009e5/forums/abec8ceb-67f7-4450-a716-fd7542714501
https://app.thestorygraph.com/book_clubs/a61251cd-ba25-4ec1-afa7-0b802d7009e5/forums/ff14484e-f509-4722-a0f7-c3b8bd63d48b

I can open and use all other forums of the club fine.

I love the Storygraph preview feature but I have noticed on a few different books that the preview will end by saying that the book doesn't have one of the triggers I have marked as wanting to avoid. But when I look at the warnings summary, they are in the Minor section. Not sure if this is just a phrasing issues but it is somewhat misleading. I have attached screenshots of an example

I have only seen this on this one particular book, but just wanted to let you know about it! It seems like it is incorporating a prompt instead of the info that is usually shown. This is on the SG Preview, not the personalized one.

Preview text:

Sing, Unburied, Sing is ideal for readers drawn to emotionally intense, lyrical narratives that explore family struggles, the lingering effects of historical trauma, and the complexities of identity in the rural American South.

Step-by-step explanation:

1. Identify key elements: The book's exploration of family dynamics, historical trauma, and identity.

2. Connect to reader preferences: Highlight emotional depth and appreciation for lyrical prose.

3. Avoid genre/mood restatement: Instead of mentioning genre, focus on the narrative's thematic and emotional resonance.

Book link:

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/5cf098cc-3c0c-426d-8076-4a844db9dfdb

A lot of time when I open the app lately I get just a blank screen, sometimes other tabs will load, but often I have to close the app and start again. I checked for updates, none. iPhone 13 Pro on IOs 18.3.2

App for Android. With my preferred larger font size the grid gets misaligned when "Complete (DNF)" is broken into two lines. Works with smaller fonts where the entire "Complete (DNF)" fits.

In book-specific reading challenges, formatting for links, bullet/number lists, and quotes aren't displaying properly in the book notes/info box.

Tricky to explain, but the Up Next list order is messed up.

When I add a new book, it gets added in the second to last spot but has only the up arrow so you can't move it down to the last spot.

We put some important links to StoryGraph sites (forums of the club) on our book club's "about" page and when I created the page they worked, but now they all lead to a "content missing" page.

I suspect it started with the update that changed the navigation.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/book_clubs/a61251cd-ba25-4ec1-afa7-0b802d7009e5/

Recently added some new editions for a couple books. When choosing genre I could pick from the list but when saving the completed entry the chosen genres aren't saved. The 1st time I thought it was my mistake but it happened twice after that. With those two I double checked the genre box that the entries were there before saving. Tapped save and they'd vanished.

Android version 9

Hi,
When I've added books to a challenge and then leave the challenge, the book detail page still shows me that I've added it to said challenge.
To remove the book, I have to rejoin the challenge, remove all the books I've added and then leave the challenge again.

I want to add an edition to a book manually as it can’t be imported by ISBN. When I try and do this on the mobile app and click on ‘choose file’ for the cover I can select the image I want but once I have chosen it I am sent to the top of the ‘add an edition’ form and when I scroll down no image has been selected.