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Feature Requests (Update: Amazon Reviews)

Discussion in 'Site News' started by Bookangel, 26 Dec 2015.

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  1. Tregaron

    Tregaron Member

    Thank you! I've been adding books to my Google for the last hour. This is dangerously addictive.

    There's a glitch in the third party reviews. None of the ones in my email could be clicked. All went to 404. Could you correct this?
     
    Tregaron, 5 Feb 2016
    #41
  2. tirial

    tirial Member

    We've found the problem: for some reason it was misdirecting all the links. We can fix it now for next week's email.
     
    tirial, 5 Feb 2016
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  3. tirial

    tirial Member

    That's fixed. Also, the member functions you wanted, we might be able to do. I'm not sure about linking it with Xenforo accounts though, as I don't know Xenforo well. Also click tracking on sidebar ads is live, as is the cannonical link.
     
    tirial, 8 Feb 2016
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  4. Bookangel

    Bookangel Administrator Staff Member

    Thanks for your time last night, tirial. The following site updates have been made:
    • The Voting plugin has been removed as it was slowing everything down.
    • The Third Party Reviews plugin is being removed and replaced by a new system.
    • Several unwanted external calls have been removed.
    • CIAS found 26MB of unused database data and cleared it out.
    There's a way to speed the site up further, but it will cost $19 so we'll discuss it at the next meeting.

    Thank you to CIAS who is setting up a development site so we can test this.
     
    Bookangel, 9 Feb 2016
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  5. skye

    skye Member

    I liked the voting. I hope it will come back soon.
     
    skye, 9 Feb 2016
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  6. tirial

    tirial Member

    Just done some serious work on the front end, removing a lot of extra code to try and tighten things up on the book and reviews pages. Let me know if you see any problems.
     
    tirial, 17 Feb 2016
    #46
  7. CatInASuit

    CatInASuit Administrator Staff Member

    We have a new form for submitting Third Party Blog reviews to the site allowing us to remove one of the larger Wordpress plugins.

    Hopefully, the site will run a little faster as a side effect.
     
    CatInASuit, 19 Feb 2016
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  8. skye

    skye Member

    skye, 24 Feb 2016
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  9. Bookangel

    Bookangel Administrator Staff Member

    That was fast. Let me finish updating the thread and I'll add details here.

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    OK, we've had a lot of requests to put the reviews on Amazon.co.uk. The threats made to reviewers if they used their own accounts meant we needed club account. There were two obstacles: first, Amazon won't take reviews that have appeared anywhere else, and two the need to set up a club account.

    The T&Cs have changed and now allow a Bookangel account, (since it is only going to be used by one person in the club) without personal details being exposed. To put reviews up we'll still need to rewrite them, but we're doing that for Goodreads anyway. We're not promoting this until we're sure Amazon is OK with it, so there will be a few reviews for high ranked, un-reviewed books going across as a test.

    And no, it is still a case of picking books out of the pile to review. We do not accept compensation for reviews.
     
    Last edited: 24 Feb 2016
    Bookangel, 24 Feb 2016
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  10. Reader

    Reader Vile Critic

    I hope you have someone else to re-write the reviews for Amazon, as I won't have time (looking at the rather huge and overbalancing virtual review pile...).
     
    Reader, 29 Feb 2016
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  11. Tregaron

    Tregaron Member

    I would like to suggest a 'series' feature on the site, to books in the same series and collected editions can be linked.
     
    Tregaron, 28 Apr 2016
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  12. Bookangel

    Bookangel Administrator Staff Member

    I'll add it. The coders are currently working on Bargain, so it might be some time.
     
    Bookangel, 3 May 2016
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