Aussie Readers discussion

From the Moderator Group, one of its members who is following everything diligently.

This week GR announced (via DM and email) that they are removing DMs, and external links and images from messages in the "upcoming weeks". We don't know exactly which messages will lose links & images. Attempts at clarifying with goodreads support did not rule out groups!

💬💬 This thread is where we can share info, vent and suggest ways in which we can make our feelings known 💬💬



◼️KEY INFO ◼️

GRs Announcement is here:

"Hello Goodreads Member,

In the coming weeks, we will be making some updates to how messaging works on Goodreads.

What's Changing?
• Direct messages between individual members will no longer be available
• Images and external links will no longer be supported in messages

While direct messages between individual members are no longer available, you can still access your past messages from your inbox, Group moderators can still send broadcast messages to their group members, and you can still send group invitations to your Goodreads friends. All other public interactions, such as writing and responding to book reviews, remains unchanged.

-The Goodreads Team"

◼️ A Petition on change.org:
https://www.change.org/p/urge-goodrea...

◼️ A Protest Group with Resources: (It already has more than 1000 members
A form letter to send to GR and 2 GR email addresses, Suggestions for status updates, etc.
There is a summary of their links here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

If anyone is interested in following the discussion in the Moderator thread it's here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

There are a lot of posts there, so scroll to the second to last or last page if you don't want to read it all. It will help with things we can and can't do. Working around things.

This thread is an excellent idea, Brenda!

Thanks Rowan :) I hope it helps...