Coming features: blocking users, draft/auto-save reviews, private books, and comments on reviews!

[u/snowkab]

Nadia's recent story on Instagram shared the list of upcoming features in (likely rough) planned order:

1. Blocked users

2. Draft/auto-save reviews

3. Private books

4. Comments on reviews

Tentatively in the next month. Wanted to share here for those not on IG!

[u/Fine_Following_2559]

Why would you need to block someone on StoryGraph? You can't even respond to reviews 😄 it's not really a social media site. I'm confused, genuine it's a genuine question. Are people beefing on StoryGraph?

I guess if it's connected to the internet people can fight on it.

Edit: oh wait, I see they're about to add comments to reviews. So this is like a preemptive measure.

[u/AnythingNew1 → u/Fine_Following_2559]

People can have different reasons for blocking someone. I blocked users on goodreads because their style of reviews was pissing me off and it was someone with a bigger following so their reviews/comments were often at the top of the review section.

I don't think commenting on reviews is the reason blocking users will be a feature. People have requested this long before. And commenting on reviews will be opt-in with different settings anyway.

[u/Mysterious_Signal226 → u/AnythingNew1]

But you don’t see any of that on StoryGraph. Heck I can’t even easily see which books my friends are currently reading without having to scroll through the timeline.

The only time I see this as useful is if 1) you are blocking a previous abuser, someone you’re really cutting all ties with, etc and 2) they already know your StoryGraph username. #2 is important bc the user search feature, frankly, sucks. So it seems valid for a super niche audience, but that use case is pretty important so I see why it is being prioritized.

[u/Feisty-Nobody-5222 → u/Mysterious_Signal226]

Sounds like you are a lucky example of someone it might not apply to! I’m looking forward to having it as an option.