As someone who only ever reads ebooks and finds buddy reads & audiobooks about as appealing as DIY dentistry, I know I'm not in the target demo for the big enhancements at TSG. The tiny and INCREDIBLY hard-working team has dome a truly fantastic job of maximising the user exerience for the greatest possible number of users, and I applaud in awe.
Adding to my list of things that I fully understand are VERY low priority enhancements (comprehensive DNF stats & sorting, seamless & painless ebook adds) here's another: a browser-agnostic website experience
One of the VERY best things about TSG is that it's not owned by a data-sucking megacorp as GR is.
Sadly, for those of us who access TSG primarily by the web browser (90% for me), the site is VERY heavily optimised for a browser whose data suckage is infinitely worse than Amazon's. I avoid Chrome as much as possible, but that means putting up with a markedly suboptimal experience on the website that I use more than any other, multiple times a day.
Adding hundreds of ebooks has been and continues to be a frustrating hit-and-miss "will it work this time?" kind of game, as the support team and librarians can testify. I am grateful for their tireless efforts and apologise for adding so often to their workload.
Dark mode also works properly only in Chrome. The percentages are blurred in Firefox (even on my 34-inch 4K monitor) and in my secondary browser, Pale Moon, the graphs won't load at all.
I fully grok, and support, the wisdom of "the greatest good for the greatest number" when it comes to the wonderful leaps forward TSG has made, but I hope that enhancements like this one can be kept in mind for some future attention.
We aim for the website to work in all main browsers. I've had to do certain specific updates to fix broken things in each of Firefox, Safari, and Chrome over the years. They all have their quirks. The team uses a range of browsers across a range of devices!
We have not tested Dark Mode extensions anywhere and do not officially support a Dark Mode yet, so the fact that it the extension you're using works properly in Chrome must just be a coincidence!
Firefox is the only browser that behaves differently with flash notifications and it's a known browser-wide problem. We've fixed the issue in most cases but we're trying to get to the bottom of why you don't see them all of the time. We wonder if it's something to do with your specific browser configuration. The import system itself is always working — it's just that you don't see the notification to let you know that we haven't found the book yet and that we'll keep looking.
Apart from the flash notifications (and Dark Mode, since that's not something we officially offer or support yet), are there any other Firefox issues?
I don't know if it's FF specific but one annoying bug when adding a book manually is that if it's an ASIN, for some reason spaces are always added before and after the ASIN, which I of course don't see and which generate an error because "the UID contains invalid characters" It ONLY happens with ASINs, never ISBNs and I am ALWAYS very, VERY careful to copy and paste only the ASIN - the highlighted cursor shows no leading spaces on the Amazon page. I try to make a point of remembering to check the field for the 'hidden spaces' now, but sometimes forget. I am glad that I don't get many books from Kindle, but instead get most of mine from Kobo, where I get the "this ISBN already taken" error message instead :)
robinwalter Hmmm, that is strange. In any case we should strip spaces from the input.