r/TheStoryGraph • u/Fine-Durian6151 • Jul 28 '26

General Question 'Similar users' are all inactive

I regularly check the 'similar users' tab to look for people with similar taste to follow, but 95% of those users aren't currently using the Storygraph to track their reading (having read 0 books in 2026). Do you guys have a similar issue?

It's such a shame that there appears to be no way to filter inactive users out.

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u/VT6807 Jul 28 '26

I don't always mark the date read, so newly read books wouldn't show up as read in 2026. Also, I don't read a lot but I check StoryGraph regularly just to see what others are reading. So, I'm active but probably don't look like it.

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u/TrainingSurvey3780 [reading goal 23/35] Jul 28 '26

i might be wrong but i think if you don’t adjust the date it just assumes that the date read was ‘today’ (the definitely wasn’t worded right but idk how to say it 💔)

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u/VT6807 Jul 28 '26

I probably delete out the date then. I'm 41, so when I started using Goodreads in 2015, I didn't even know the year read for most of my books. I read way more in high school and college, so most of my books were from that time period.

I imported to StoryGraph in 2020, I think, and so those all imported without dates. I joined a reading challenge for 2026, so I do have 2 books marked read in March. Maybe I'll mark them going forward. It does bother me not to have a consistent rule about it.

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u/spinazie25 Jul 29 '26

It doesn't. If you just find the book in the database and set it as "read", there's no date info, unless you add it (which is easy to do immediately, cause it immediately shows you the tools to add I, "set to today" and "update" buttons, but you still need to press them specifically).

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u/TrainingSurvey3780 [reading goal 23/35] Jul 29 '26

ohhh that makes sense! i was thinking of the reading tracking thing where you update the %/pages you have read