the way a (wildly unrelated) app I use manages this type of thing is when you 'follow' someone, you can choose what types of content from them you want to follow. maybe options could include reviews, finishing a book, changing up next, or journal entries? additionally, it might be nice to allow users to choose whether their journal entries are public, friends only, etc, since they might choose to put private notes in their journal entries. i'd really love to see an addition like this to the community page though!

Or maybe let us mark those friends who's journal updates we want to see on the community page? That way it's not cluttered and we still can stay connected to good friends.

Or or maybe on the community page there can be an option to mute journal updates or something?

@Abbie - completely understand! that's why I said add it as an option. Maybe make "mute" an option as well? One reason I'm having a hard time convincing friends to jump from goodreads is that they really like the community/discussion aspect. Some of whom have built a presence and community around their own reviews. Maybe there's a good compromise?

Hello! We could think about this, but a lot of the feedback we had in initial research showed that people thought other book apps' newsfeed were much too busy as you could see every single update people made on a book! People also like the fact they can write whatever they want, especially spoilers, when making progress updates.

But of course we'll keep this option in mind. :-)