Georgette Heyer Fans discussion

The first one is if you receive notifications by email, part of the comment used to appear in the notification. Not a big deal for most of us

Now we come on to things that do affect many of us.

Without telling members, Goodreads has changed a profile setting. If you had
Who Can Send Me Private Messages: set to anyone, Goodreads changed it to just my friends. You can change it back to anyone. I have done so so that members of this group can get hold of me.

On Help someone has posted that she is trying to friend someone who has a question. Goodreads has removed the option to add a message, which means she can't reply - & she can't send a request without answering the question! If you have a question I don't know if you can remove it. I found the question a waste of time. Instead on my profile I have put something that I expect requesters to read. This weeds out the friend collectors.

Now for this group - this isn't a big deal. Critterbee & I only send out a block message once a year. But now only people on the friend list of the moderator who sends it would get it. I haven't talked to Critterbee about this yet, but maybe we will do an end of the year summary & post it here.

But some of you may be a member of a group that sends out regular messages.

& now for the change that is really frosting my flakes.

Some (not all members) are finding they can now only post Goodreads links. Like https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Edit: it looks like Goodreads has changed this back after no doubt receiving many angry messages about this. I hhave just checked three different sites & was able to post the links.

So it may be that Goodreads has put the other options back. :)

Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂ wrote: "Now for this group - this isn't a big deal. Critterbee & I only send out a block message once a year. But now only people on the friend list of the moderator who sends it would get it. I haven't ta..."

I've had group email messages from mods in a couple of other groups I belong to in the last 72 hours. I'm not friends of these mods, but I did change my setting for who can PM me back to anyone on GR when I found they'd made a blanket change to 'friends only'. So, maybe that's what members may have to do?

Thanks for reporting on these issues, Carol! I got a notice in another group about the “Friends only” issue and went in and changed it back. Now if I could only fix my other Goodreads issues!

Dunno. If anyone has a question with their friend request, I can test it for them if they want. :)

They can send me a message - hopefully!

Thanks for the updates, Carol!

Thank you for keeping us updated!

I was having trouble with links, and am glad to hear that they have fixed that!

Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂ wrote: "& now for the change that is really frosting my flakes.

Some (not all members) are finding they can now only post Goodreads links. Like https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Edit: it look..."

I noticed that and got around it by just posting the link and not the html code around it.