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It's been a year since I reported a bug preventing me from using GR for cataloguing my books. They haven't fixed it and when I inquired this week, informed me there's no intention to fix it soon. As such, over the next month I'll be pulling down my past reviews. If you're looking for me, I'm still very active on my blog (breathesbooks.com) and on Litsy (https://www.litsy.com/web/user/shanaqui). Hope to see you there!
— Jan 11, 2020 06:28AM
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Jan 11, 2020 09:32AM
This really sucks. But are you sure about removing your past reviews? I must confess they help me quite a lot when I'm hesitating about a fantasy book. And it's still fascinating to see the new insights that you gained with every reread (like. your five reads of The Goblin Emperor. I got it for my dad and he read it lots of times too)
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They're almost all still available on my blog, and I'll be putting links so people can find them there. :) I might leave up the ones that aren't available on my blog -- it would be more work for me to do it that way, though, so I haven't decided. I just don't want to provide valuable content for Goodreads for free when they don't want to fix bugs preventing me from using the service in the way it's designed to be used. The issue is literally as simple as the sort on the date read not working in a way that makes it difficult for me to organise my books, but they're just not interested in doing it. I can get better service from an Excel spreadsheet. I told them I wasn't going to stay on the site if they didn't fix this, and I'm afraid I need to vote with my feet here! It does suck, though, and I know that. I know most people aren't going to follow my blog, and I'll miss the connections I made here.
I'm glad! If there are links it's perfect for us too :) but either way it's your choice of course.I check out your blog regularly, your reviews make me want to grow my tbr list outragiously...
Ha, my blog has that effect on me too. :p It's good to hear!
The bug is (and continues to be) that you can't sort my books by, for example, date read (which is essential for me using it to catalogue my books). You can replicate it by just looking at my read shelf yourself: sort by date read, and then look at page 1. The most recent three are Sep 3 2018, Oct 30 2018, Jan 18 2019. Then skip to the last page of my read books, where you will find Dec 12 2018, Feb 24 2018, Dec 26 2018.They're all like that, in a completely bizarre order, and the solution they've offered me for the bug is to re-save all 4000 book records by hand; they have no timeline for when the bug will actually be fixed, so it could just recur anytime even if I thought it was reasonable to do all that.
Oh, never paid attention to that as it's not as viable to my workflow, but yeah, it's a pretty basic feature not to support. Me too was thinking of making the GR my backlog and track actually read books by other means (blog, spreadsheet, etc) since GR doesn't really provide much value in my opinion. Persistent technical issues and limitations make it even worse.
If bugs are only affecting (or important to) a small number of users, GR just doesn't fix them. I've had one for years where I can't see the reviews of people I follow in my preferred view in my feed. Only solution that works for me is to keep people I'm following small & once a week have a random look at a couple of their reviews.
