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Distinguish "full" review on community page based on whether it has text
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jaina8851
Feb 11, 2023

When I'm looking at the reviews for a book from the book page, I have the option to select "only show reviews with text". I pretty much always check that box, because I always want to know what people took the time to say about it when I'm considering whether or not to read it myself.

However, when I'm looking at the community feed, all I see is "See full review". I've found myself clicking through often and immediately clicking back once I realize there is nothing to see. I personally don't tend to find the survey questions about pacing and character development as useful in isolation without knowing more about a book (which is to say: I think they are very useful in their predictions for the algorithm about what I might like, but when I'm browsing around, I don't look at them as often because I don't know offhand what combos I prefer). It would be really useful if in this view I could tell the difference between a "full" review that actually has text to read vs not.

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Nadia
Feb 11, 2023

Yes, we intend to make it clearer from the community feed whether there's written text or not!

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brittishliterature
Feb 14, 2023

Nadia this would also be super helpful when looking at reviews in the People You Follow section on a book page. I love clicking into See All Activity, but when there are a lot of reviews it can be time consuming to click through multiple entries trying to find who actually wrote something (and then it's so disappointing when the "full review" is just a star rating haha).

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Nadia
Feb 15, 2023

brittishliterature We can probably add a preview of the text, and then have a "See/read more" button!

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