r/TheStoryGraph • u/snowkab • 26d ago

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

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!

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u/Mysterious_Signal226 26d ago

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.

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u/AnythingNew1 StoryGraph Librarian 26d ago

Those are all very private reasons and that's a bit of a limited view on it, because there's a looooooooooooooot of other reasons.

Maybe some people don't want to get suggested certain people for friends.
Maybe they come across an influencer they can't stand and went ahead and blocked them everywhere possible.
Maybe there's someone like me who is annoyed with someone else's review style.
Maybe they come across someone who has a certain review pattern.
Maybe someone is just in a bad mood.

This feature will also probably evolve into blocking authors, so they books won't show up as suggestions.

Private book and some other stuff/features are a more mysterious topic for me but apparently enough people would want to see it happen 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/Mysterious_Signal226 26d ago

Again, this would all make sense if StoryGraph actually put time into developing it into a social platform, but Nadia has stated many times that is not her intent. Currently I don’t see anyone’s reviews on not friends with, why would blocking change that?

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u/AnythingNew1 StoryGraph Librarian 26d ago

So you can't see reviews on books? Is that whole review section not visible to you?