Will an invite button be added from individual profiles on Natively? I think that would help with bloggers inviting people because then they might be able to track their statistics of how many people are coming from that link.
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Is this common functionality? I can certainly add something around that, but I’m not sure I understand the point. Wouldn’t you care simply about how many followers you get on Natively?
Maybe a link that when they sign up with it, they are added as followers automatically?
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@onigiristudies I just figured out the reader badge. Every day at this moment (11PM Seoul Time), it calculates the reader badge. If there’s an unread message in the thread you’ve mostly read than you won’t get it.
So you really have to be sure that you pop on around now to make sure you get it. It’s kinda dumb 
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could see that, sure 
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There’s the aspect of people who want to know how many followers they have and then some bloggers are trying to track which post/link is gaining more traction so they can know where to continue to post it. I know discord is a bad example, but on occasion I will post a temporary link in some places instead of the permanent server link to see where a majority of my users are coming from. If I forget to, when I poll them, they might say tumblr or that they found me in another server and followed my main link.
Goodreads does have this option on our profile:
I’m not necessarily trying to suggest options to make this a duplicate of goodreads, but I’m trying to think of things that may pull goodreads users because I have seen some people leaving reviews for Japanese books on goodreads in English, and I think we can definitely use some of those people to grade books on Natively.
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Time to snoop on this thread rn then lol
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That’s helpful context. I can see how that might be useful. I will say though that even with a tracking system, the tracking would be extremely primitive with no cross-device handling, so the numbers might get inflated. Attribution in general is so difficult 
If you do find any good reviewers, please send them my way… I’ve had some success doing cold outreach 
I’m on the case, doc 
i will scout the out!!
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Can’t you just use the functionality from Discourse?
I haven’t convinced anyone to join the service yet, but the invitation functionality keeps track of how many people used your link. (I have 0 so far)
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… I actually had zero idea that was a thing. However it looks like it’s primarily email based? And directs you to the forums?
Not a bad interim solution, although someone like @onigiristudies may want a simple link.
Too bad on no bites though! If it’s a hesitancy to onboard from bookmeter, I of course can help with that, if you want to include in your personal message
No, it’s primarily link based, but you can automatically send it by email through the interface. (You can also restrict which email domain has to be used to register through it, not that it’s of any use to me).
I haven’t tried to click on it, though, so I don’t know what happens then.
Edit: it gives a page saying that “you were invited by …” and then, if you click okay, brings you to the proper registration page from Natively, so I think it’s fine.
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Ah I see! Yes if you don’t put in an email address and hit ‘save’ it just generates a link, very nice
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The description of the member badge says that it grants the ability to generate invitations, so basic users (almost everyone) may not have the option right now.
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It would be great if when we update a book in the dashboard for the first time in the day, the “days read” will automatically add one more day as well as the “stamp”.
For example, my “days read” said I only read books for 2 days because I did not manually update the calendar page after clicking “see full activity”.
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Yes that would be good! But a few things on that:
- Not everyone wants that… some people only update their books when they’re finished. I’d have to make that a user preference to toggle on
- I probably need to handle timezones better before I do this. Right now, everything is on US eastern time, which obviously causes problems when marking your day read for people in Eastern Countries (like me )
You’re right though, it feels like an obvious add.
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I see! Perhaps in the user profile, you could ask them about their preferences and timezone.
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Have you considered using a rating algorithm that takes into account all of the comparisons at once instead of Elo? (To avoid this bias) Now with so few raters it isn’t such a big deal maybe, but later if some books have hundreds of ratings it seems less and less ideal to let Elo’s recency bias take over.
The only one I know of offhand that also gives a ranking value you could use to translate into the current rating scale is rank centrality ranking ( Rank Centrality Ranking from Pair-wise Comparisons (mit.edu)). They compare to a few other algorithms in there as well that may be worth checking out 
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I haven’t leveled up to get that ability so far, so I’ve just been sharing thread/topic links 
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I think it requires 2 weeks? So only a few more days.
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