Product Updates & Casual Natively Discussion

I competed a book I was tracking in percentages, but when I flipped to complete, it auto converted the percentage into a page number, so I ended up with this weird result

I can probably fix it easily enough, but worth mentioning.

Also the tv/book filter still randomly resets to all in my feed, instead of staying on books only like I want.

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Totally understandable especially since this one isn’t nearly as bad as the one from before with the episode splitting

Thanks!

And I will make sure to report on the pages for any shows if I ever run into this again to see if it was just a weird one off

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Thanks for your post. I will stay far away from that site. I can’t stand people, who are full of themselves.

Considering writing some book reviews on this site but I’m not sure if they would be that good. Of course I would only write ones for books which don’t have any reviews yet.

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The cover changed while I was watching it… :face_with_monocle:

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I tried to request some manga I got recently, but the form gave me this error:

I went to the product page from Bookmeter and copied just the actual link part the way I always have, but for some reason it isn’t recognizing it

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Please do! I like reading book reviews, and it’s always interesting to see what other people make of a book.

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huh… that’s fascinating. So i’ve only ever seen amazon generate /dp/xxxxxx/ or /gp/product/xxxx/ urls… never /dp/product/ urls… I wonder if they copied wrong.

Does that link actually work? Can change the url checker if so.

In the meantime, can just remove the product/ from the url and it should work.

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Seconding! And don’t feel like you have to stick to unreviewed books, either. More reviews is a good thing across the board.

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I pasted the link into a new tab and it brought me to the page just fine

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For what it’s worth, I find it super helpful when books have multiple reviews and the reviews are different styles. I was a little intimidated to start writing book reviews at first, but I got lots of good tips and inspiration in this thread if you want to take a look!

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Looks like the difficulty levels aren’t shown in order. This appears to have happened for both videos and books.

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Well a proper desync implementation would be to be able to choose what it gets desynced.

For example, if you just want to desync the episode airing time, or just the description and so on. So I can see why it would be annoying and hard to implement.

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should be fixed.

I think there may a bug logged for this … that’s a big enough issue i should look into it

Yeah the proper image is populated later. your old activity images will eventually update… but it may be like 6 months :joy:

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It’s worth noting that if you flip from percentage to book pages (or vice versa?) after any update, not just a finished, it also auto-converts the raw number instead of figuring it out by dividing, say, [pageNumber]/[totalPageNumber] = [percentage] or whatever. Probably a rarer case.

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Right. Yeah the thinking there is that you would ever only switch once and, in general, you’d have input the number you could’ve input (you usually don’t know the page if you only know percent)… so it actually makes sense to keep that I think. It’s also what other sites do in my experience? At least I know storygraph does it that way.

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Makes sense, pretty minor issue. Thanks for the Finished fix though.

I’ve been thinking again about stats… I don’t find the stats page particularly useful right now but I’m not sure what stats I actually want, so need to sit down and consider before lodging a request. I think you mentioned working on an export stats button, is that still in the far-flung future?

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There’s this request - Allow CSV data dump.

I’m not sure when I’ll do it. It’s pretty easy, just not prioritized. If people upvote and push for it, happy to do it.

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I just opened it fine in Chrome: https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/product/4088700686/

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I can’t set a blank start date from the data manager page. Clicking the pencil icon causes the entire page to “crash” (popup closes and all content on the page disappears). The basic info version works.

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Did just run into a (probably) more common variant of this on another of the shows I was watching which is related to time zones. (Still not that big of a deal, but more common so I thought I’d point it out).

TMDB records its air date with respect to the time zone it aired in which means you frequently have to wait until the next day to record watching something if you don’t live in Asia. Anime air times aggravate this since they frequently air just after midnight (Japan time)

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